Inland Empire Networking Business Event Takes Center Stage October 22 at Ontario Convention Center

Business networking shifts into high gear with Inland Empire's Largest Mixer II bringing together local businesses representing hundreds of industries and companies in the Inland Empire.

The goal of Inland Empire's Largest Mixer is to encourage membership in one or several chambers of commerce, allowing businesses to grow based on a wider network of support. The mixer also provides a chance for businesses to network with each other for mutual support. Businesses and individuals do not have to be affiliated with a chamber to attend the Mixer.

"Mixers are a great way to accomplish the first step of networking -- which is meeting people," commented Lisa Bailey, President/CEO, Irwindale Chamber of Commerce. "The next steps are following up, sharing information about your products or services and then determining how you can best work with or refer each other."

Scheduled for Wednesday, October 22, 2008 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., the event will ascend on the Ontario Convention Center, 2000 E. Convention Center Way, Ontario, CA 91764.

Admission is $20 per person which includes complimentary hors d'oeuvres and the opportunity to network with local "influentials" that comprise the uber savvy of the Inland Empire's business elite. The Mixer will feature over 170 exhibitors and an impressive list of local sponsors who share a common goal of business outreach and networking. Last year, over 1200 businesspeople attended the first annual Inland Empire's Largest Mixer.

The event is sponsored by: Chambers of Commerce: Arcadia, Colton, Corona, Greater Riverside Hispanic, Hesperia, Highland Area, Irwindale, La Verne, Ontario, Pomona, Rialto, San Bernardino, San Dimas, Southern California Black, and Yucaipa. Business Organizations: American Women's Business Association, CHARO -- Community Development Corporation, For You Network (A NAFE Affiliate Network), Inland Empire Women's Business Center, National Association of Women Business Owners-Inland Empire, and Ontario Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Inland Empire's Largest Mixer -- part social mixer, part business expo -- is the fourth installment in the "Largest Mixer" family of events that has already produced successful mixers for the past 10 years in Los Angeles, Orange County and Las Vegas.

For more information, including a complete list of exhibitors and sponsors, please visit www.iemixer.com or call 909-560-2800.

Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s K1 Speed Multi Chamber Mixer

Tuesday marked the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s K1 Speed Multi Chamber Mixer. The event was held at K1 Speed Ontario and, let me tell you, did not disappoint.

Events like these usually run in a pretty standard fashion—booths, people and, of course, networking galore; K1 Speed, however, didn’t let the mixing and mingling stop at the booth. After queuing up, people had the chance to drive around a collection of European electric karts. In a world of mixers, not every one can boast that they actually had their attendees and exhibitors zipping around a racetrack at 60 MPH, all whilst picking up business lead after business lead—a very uniquely impressive feat indeed. Among many of the people that we had the pleasure of mingling with were Susan Segreti, Director of Sales at Residence Inn by Marriott, Sean Stovall, General Manager of Dave & Buster’s, Inc., and Tom M. Borba Jr., of Premiere Golf Solutions.


Now seeing as how K1 Speed has been a long time exhibitor at the Largest Mixer (thanks guys!), one might come to think that maybe, just maybe, K1 got the idea from us. Sorry to disappoint, but K1 Speed deserves all the credit there. While the Largest Mixer has, well, the mixing part down, something tells me that a mass production of Largest Mixer electric karts isn’t anywhere in the near future. Until that day comes, however, the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s K1 Speed Multi Chamber Mixer, with its abundance of European electric karts, was second to none.

We’d like to give a special thanks to Shannon Rivers of K1 Speed and Stephanie Palomar and Nicole Vasquez from the Ontario Chamber of Commerce for throwing another great event!

Highland Chamber Marketing Expo 2008

Yesterday, the Largest Mixer had the pleasure of exhibiting at the Highland Area Chamber of Commerce’s Marketing Expo 2008 at the San Bernardino Elks Lodge.

The expo, as promised, possessed a multitude of diversity in terms of people in attendance. The venue was top-notch, and I must say, featured an impressive view of the San Bernardino Valley. Mixing and mingling at the expo led us to meet some fantastic people like June Yamamoto, Dean of the Emergency Training Center at Crafton Hills College, Ethiem Lewis, Business Marketing Representative at Costco, and a 5 year licensed tax preparer of H&R Block by the name of Rhonda Anderson.

Largest Mixer Event Producer, Dave Linden (2nd to left)
is joined by other new Highland Chamber members।

The expo even featured Victoria Seitz, PhD from Cal State, San Bernardino, who by the way is exhibiting at this year's Inland Empire's Largest Mixer. Professor Seitz spoke on marketing tips in a tough economy.

Overall, the Highland Area Chamber of Commerce’s Marketing Expo 2008 was a grand success.

We’d like to give a special thanks to Lindsay Mingee of the Highland Chamber of Commerce for planning such a fabulous event.

National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO-LA) 4th Annual Organizing Expo

Last night, the Largest Mixer attended NAPO-LA’s 4th Annual Organizing Expo, which was held at the Olympic Collection in West LA.

Some of the staff here at the Largest Mixer would like to think that we already have a stellar organizational system. An organizing expo like this, however, shows that regardless of how good a system already is, there is always room for improvement. Those aforementioned staff members are no longer employed at the Largest Mixer.

NAPO President, John Trosko presents the "Best in Show
Award" to Chris McKenry of Get It Together LA!

All kidding aside, the Organizing Expo was a terrific success. This year’s Expo hosted the first ever “Ask the Organizer” Panel. Home and business organizational experts offered their insight and guidance to a packed house of aspiring professional organizers and members of the general public. The questions asked ranged from residential to small business to corporate organizing concerns. The most anticipated question was how to successfully maintain an organizational system while balance family, activities and work. Just a few of the exhibitors whom we saw at the Expo were Get it Together LA!, Smart Box USA and Garage Envy.

NAPO-LA is a long time exhibitor here at the Largest Mixer, so we would truly like to extend our thanks to Jody Watson and President of NAPO-LA, John Trosko for throwing such a fantastic event.

Las Vegas’ Largest Business and Social Networking Event Shows Record Numbers

The fourth annual Las Vegas’ Largest Mixer, a collaboration of local business organizations and professionals, was held September 16, 2008 at the Plaza Hotel and Casino at One Main Street in Downtown Las Vegas.

This “mega networking” event encourages local businesses and professionals to mingle in a fun, no-pressure environment, providing Las Vegans the opportunity to meet face-to-face with like-minded individuals in their prospective industries as well as allowing for introductions to new businesses, products and eager up-and-comers. Although this unique event recipe has worked well in the past, recent economic strains raised speculation as to how this year’s event would fare.

“This was a great fourth year. We had more than 1,300 attendees and just over 130 exhibitors,” said Jimmy Foster, Largest Mixer Partner and CEO of Whispering Giants Legendary Marketing. “We have grown considerably year after year and with the current state of the economy we are very pleased that we were able to perform so well.”

Las Vegas professionals agreed, as they showed up at the Plaza in record numbers. Centrally located and easily accessible, the Plaza has hosted the event each of its four years. The Largest Mixer hopes to continue its rise in popularity in 2009.

“I’ve done so many events in the past, but the Largest Mixer really delivered,” commented Paula Asadurian, Designer, One Park Place. “Well organized, awesome foot traffic, tons of people - it’s everything you’d want a networking event to be.”

The Las Vegas’ Largest Mixer is made possible by Foster, Richard Femenella, networking pro Joel Jarvis of The LINK and Los Angeles public relations consultant, Dave Linden.

For this event, Foster and Jarvis teamed up with Dave Linden, who originally created this concept in Southern California over 10 years ago. L.A.’s Largest Mixer, Inland Empire’s Largest Mixer and Orange County’s Largest Mixer have seen significant growth in the past decade, as has the local event here in Las Vegas.

For a complete list of exhibitors and sponsors, please visit www.lasvegasmixer.com or call 702-769-7799 for further information.

LARGEST MIXER ATTENDS GREATER SAN FERNANDO VALLEY MIXER

The Largest Mixer attended the Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber mixer at our favorite Cuban restaurant (and LA's Largest Mixer X exhibitor), Casa Don Rolando! The mixer was hosted by the Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce on September 9, 2008.

The "After 5 Networking @ Night" event was a fantastic evening filled with amazing authentic Cuban food and wonderful chances to network with business people in the San Fernando Valley like Mark Villasenor, Account Manager for Harris Stationers, Adelle and Karla Aleman from ECK Professional Services and Brad Schlain an insurance agent with Aflac.

The night was not just a great mixer but also hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to launch the regentrification of the neighborhood by Chef Rolando, as well as presenting them with revitalization awards from local legislators.

(From Left to Right) Chef Rolando Gonzalez, General Manager Gustavo Urbina,
Chamber Board Chair Shirl Powell, Chamber Board Chair-Elect Michael Fiore
and Chamber CEO Nancy Hoffman Vanyek

It was an evening filled with great food and drinks, fantastic prizes and tons of sales leads, everything we at the Largest Mixer look for in a party! And we would like to thank the Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce for hosting such a great event.

LAS VEGAS' LARGEST MIXER VIP KICK-OFF PARTY

The Largest Mixer hosted it's VIP Kick-Off Event for the fast approaching Las Vegas' Largest Mixer IV, September 16, 2008, at the Plaza Hotel and Casino.

The Kick-Off was held on August 27 at the Vegas Club. It was a great opportunity to mix and mingle with all of the sponsors, co-sponsors and exhibitors and we were thrilled to see everyone there having a good time.

Everywhere you looked people were already networking, exchanging business cards, laughing and generally having a great time.

Exchanging business cards at the kick-off event.

The only time the mixing and mingling stopped was when speeches were being made. Event Producer for the Largest Mixer, Dave Linden, addressed the crowd along with others like event sponsor Joel Jarvis from The Link Las Vegas.

Event Producer, Dave Linden

The Vegas kick-off crowd watching the speeches.

Mixing and mingling at the bar

The Las Vegas' Largest Mixer Kick-off event was a great success, bringing the exhibitors and sponsors together for a good time before the big event on September 16, 2008. We at the Largest Mixer would like to thank the Vegas Club for providing such a great spread and of course we'd also like to thank our amazing sponsors and co-sponsors as well.

We look forward to getting together again at Las Vegas' Largest Mixer IV, Tuesday September 16, 2008 at the Plaza Hotel & Casino.

For more information please visit www.largestmixer.com/lasvegas

NETWORKING EVENT OF THE SEASON – INLAND EMPIRE’S LARGEST MIXER –UNITES LOCAL BUSINESSES, CITY CHAMBERS, BUSINESS GROUPS

2nd Annual Inland Empire ‘Mega’ Event Brings Together Chambers of Commerce, Business Organizations Along with Professionals for One-of-a-Kind Mixer/Expo

Business networking shifts into high gear with Inland Empire’s Largest Mixer II bringing together local businesses representing hundreds of industries and companies in the Inland Empire.

The goal of Inland Empire’s Largest Mixer II is to encourage membership in one or several chambers of commerce, allowing businesses to grow based on a wider network of support. The mixer also provides a chance for businesses to network with each other for mutual support. Businesses and individuals do not have to be affiliated with a chamber to attend the Mixer.

Scheduled for Wednesday, October 22, 2008 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., the event will ascend on the Ontario Convention Center located at 2000 E. Convention Center Way, Ontario, CA 91764.

Admission is $20 per person which includes complimentary hors d’oeuvres and the opportunity to network with local “influentials” that comprise the uber savvy of the Inland Empire’s business elite. The Mixer will feature over 150 exhibitors and an impressive list of local sponsors who share a common goal of business outreach and networking. Last year, over 1200 business people attended the first annual Inland Empire’s Largest Mixer.

The event is sponsored by: Chambers of Commerce: Arcadia, Corona, Greater Riverside Hispanic, Hesperia, Highland Area, Irwindale, La Verne, Ontario, Pomona, Rialto, San Bernardino, San Dimas, Southern California Black, and Yucaipa. Business Organizations: American Women’s Business Association, CHARO - Community Development Corporation, For You Network (A NAFE Affiliate Network), National Association of Women Business Owners-Inland Empire, and Ontario Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Co-sponsors include: Advent Visual, Conexion, El Clasificado, Inland Empire Business Journal, Inland Empire Weekly, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, KOLA 99.9, KTIE 590, KZSW-TV, La Opinion, Meetings and Mixers, Ontario Convention Center, Owl Enterprises, ReEvolve Designs, PR Newswire, Redlands Daily Facts, The Sun, and Smart Levels Media.

Inland Empire’s Largest Mixer II – part social mixer, part business expo – is the fourth installment in the “Largest Mixer” family of events that has already produced successful mixers for the past 10 years in Los Angeles, Orange County and Las Vegas.

For more information on the event, including a complete list of exhibitors and sponsors, please visit www.iemixer.com or call 909-560-2800.

Participating Inland Empire Chambers of Commerce and Business Organizations Announced for Ultimate Business Expo/Mixer

Second Annual Inland Empire's Largest Mixer Combines Networking Mixer with Business Expo for Networking Success, October 22, 2008

Inland Empire's Largest Mixer, the ultimate business networking event, is proud to announce its line up of sponsoring Inland Empire area chambers and business membership organizations:

Chambers of Commerce: Arcadia, Corona, Greater Riverside Hispanic, Hesperia, Highland Area, Irwindale, La Verne, Ontario, Rialto, San Bernardino, San Dimas, Southern California Black, and Yucaipa. Business Organizations: American Business Women's Association, American Marketing Association, CHARO- Community Development Corporation, For You Network (A NAFE Affiliate Network), NAWBO-IE, and Ontario Convention & Visitors Bureau.

"The Corona Chamber is pleased to partner with the Inland Empire Mixer. Networking is one of our key initiatives, and the Mixer is another opportunity for our members to enjoy," commented Bobby Spiegel, CEO/President, Corona Chamber of Commerce. "The benefits derived from our involvement last year are ten-fold in return of our investment. As CEO for the Corona Chamber, I fully understand the importance of hosting events and the IE Mixer is well organized and a great event to partner with."

The Mixer will be held at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, CA on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 from 5 to 9 p.m. A $20 admission fee will give attendees the opportunity to network with more than 180 exhibitors. Last year, over 1500 business were in attendance.

"The key to growing any business is building strong, solid relationships with others through active networking and product promotion," remarked Lindsay Mingee, Executive Director, Highland Area Chamber of Commerce. "Our chamber has been facilitating these two essential elements of business success for over a century, and we are pleased to partner with I.E.'s Largest Mixer to bring our members direct access to hundreds of local, potential partnerships at this ultimate business networking event."

The goal of Inland Empire's Largest Mixer is to encourage membership in one or several chambers of commerce, allowing businesses to grow based on a wider network of support. The mixer also provides an opportunity for business people to network with each other. Businesses do not have to be affiliated with a chamber to attend the Mixer.

For further information, visit www.iemixer.com or call 909-560-2800.

INLAND EMPIRE'S LARGEST MIXER KICK-OFF LUNCHEON

The Largest Mixer hosted a luncheon today for the fabulous sponsors and co-sponsors of Inland Empire's Largest Mixer II. The luncheon was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Ontario and the room was beautifully decorated by Advent Visual. 

The purpose of this luncheon was to thank all our sponsors and co-sponsors for their support and to provide a great kick-off to the mixer coming up on October 22, 2008 at the Ontario Convention Center. We were also super excited to be able to have lunch with the new chambers that came on board. So thanks to the following chambers: Arcadia, Irwindale, Pomona, Highland and Southern California Black Chamber of Commerce!

"Mixers are a great way to accomplish the first step of networking which is meeting people. The next steps are following up, sharing information about your products or services and then determining how you can best work with or refer each other. Our chamber will be at the Inland Empire's Largest Mixer, hope to see you there!" said Lisa Bailey from the Irwindale Chamber.

Along with the new sponsors we also recently obtained new co-sponsors  who we were glad to have at the luncheon. Our interior designers of the day Advent Visual has come on board, along with long time friend to the Largest Mixer, Smart Levels Media.

Ricky & Rick from Advent Solutions.

"The Inland Empire Mixer in 2007 was a wonderful event. It was well organized, well executed and well attended. The American Business Women's Association looks forward to being part of the 2008 event," said Renee Futter, ABWA. 

Exhibitor space is still available for the Inland Empire's Largest Mixer on October 22, 2008. If you would like more information click here, to sign up for a booth click here. 

Either way we hope to see you at the Inland Empire's Largest Mixer!