Phillip and His New Hat

This is Phillip.

And this is his hat!

We're all green (like his hat) with envy.

NAMM 2012

People who manufacture musical instruments from around the world go to the NAMM show so of course we go - and it was spectacular to see them all in one place! We're proud our little product goes into this industry.

Your author and captain of the FREEWAY Street Team looking a bit goofy at the entrance to NAMM.

The bling drum set!
Both drummers and fastener distributors were drooling over this set.

Speaking of drummers, we met Ricky Rockett from Poison/Rockett Drum Works - I gave him my card.

Look at these colorful guitars!
We've counted the number of screws that go into one guitar in a past blog so I would average there are over 1,000 on that wall.

And of course the staging companies that build the scenes for these intruments to play out on are there too.

Lastly we saw this shirt at the show, which we loved for obvious reasons, although I don't know what it had to do with their sound engineering company.


Great show - and we already can't wait till next year!

Our STREET TEAM is out there

I went to LA's Largest Mixer over at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center yesterday with my brand new business card!

I saw pretty much every chamber of commerce in Southern California and met lots of nice business owners and people who wanted to talk and talk and talk.  It was pretty fun (they had cocktails.)

I was a STREET TEAM of 1 (I guess there is an 'i' in team.)

Inside I met the company that makes those floating lights that look like planets.
I thought they were hanging from the ceiling but they're full of helium - they're actual balloons! They're so cool.

These were sitting on the table of a company that makes t-shirts. Weird, right?
Well turns out they do t-shirts AND manufacture custom fastener jobs. Perfect for us!

Me & the mascot for HOOTERS! We danced together too...which has nothing to do wih fasteners - it's just fun!

It was really interesting. I learn a lot attending these things.

I want to be able to promote my business in a really organic, word-of-mouth, friendly sort of way and mixers are a great opportunity to be casual & share information.  And women in my industry are still sort of rare so it's fun to tell people I sell screws, nuts & bolts. I always get a response like "REALLY?!" or "YOU?!" I love it.