We bring San Diego together.

San Diego is a big city that behaves like a small one. The same few hundred people keep turning up, and once they know your face, referrals start arriving from rooms you were not even in. That is the entire case for showing up.

The events above fall into four kinds, and they are not interchangeable.

Networking mixers. Monthly, informal, usually five o'clock somewhere with a patio. Best for meeting people without a pitch attached. If you are new to the San Diego business scene, start here rather than at a summit.

Business showcases and expos. Table space, a real audience, and a reason to have your materials in order. Better for anyone with something physical or visual to show.

Summits and speaking dates. Leadership summits, TEDx, dental society meetings and author association talks. These are where Brittany speaks rather than mingles, so come if the topic is the draw.

Hands-on courses. The dental photography intensives are the opposite of a mixer: two days, small group, and you leave able to do something you could not do on Monday. Details are on the Photo Course page.

Most people leave a networking event with a stack of cards and nothing else. A few things separate the ones who do not.

Have one sentence ready. Not your title. What you do for people, in language a stranger understands immediately. If you cannot say it in one breath, that is a branding problem before it is a networking problem, and we wrote about exactly that here.

Aim for three real conversations, not thirty introductions. Nobody has ever been hired because somebody collected their card.

Follow up within two days. This is the whole game and almost nobody does it. A short specific message referencing what you actually talked about beats a connection request every time.

Come find us at any of these. We are usually the ones with a camera.