Having only lived in Los Angeles for about 7 months now I am trying to get out into the networking community. I was given a sweet little tip by Stewart Wolfe over at RMS Direct about the LA Mixer. I didn’t know what to expect so this is an account of my experience while I was there.

First, the venue. It took place at the Shrine Auditorium and I didn’t really get to see what it looked like until I was leaving, a very beautiful building

Next I went inside, I knew that there would be a lot of presenters but I was literally overwhelmed by two floors of this place just packed tight with business displays.

As I started making my way through I met some pretty cool companies, let’s take a look at some of our favorites.

First we have Cheeky Ads and in this picture we have Kristen and Liseth. The basic premise of Cheeky Ads is to show some skin with your ad on it! How can you ignore ads like these?

Another really cool company was Eticket Farm, basically what they do is to provide printable tickets for your events whether they are large or small to help you bypass all of those nasty taxes and fees from certain larger companies. They also had this sweet Michael Jordan jersey to win, I don’t think I won it.

Next we had K1 Speed, they are an awesome little kart racing company that gives you a true driving experience. Here we have Denise Tran talking to a prospective client.

Having lived in North Carolina there was absolutely no way I could pass up this guy, Berkeley, owner of Berkley’s Backyard BBQ, his sauce was good, as was the BBQ, who would have thought good BBQ would make it to the west coast?

Here we have a very tasty Acai Berry energy drink called efusjon it was very good and I hope they make it, as it seemed much healthier than most other energy drinks.

Overall this was a great first outing for me, really cool and a great chance to get to know a lot of the “local” LA Businesses, I want to get a booth next year so we can have the position of power and collect a lot of cards from all of the people going through the floor, what should be bring as a giveaway prize though? Any suggestions?

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