What do I need to connect mixer into MacBook Pro 15"?

Hi all -
I just finished a presentation I was doing for 250 people who work for me.
225 were in the large ball room and 25+ were participating via WebEx using VoIP for audio.
I told the A/V company at the hotel that I wanted to take an output from the mixer (where all mics AND computer sound was going into) and put it into my "line in" jack on my MacBook Pro.
This (I thought) would allow me to take everything being heard in the ballroom (microphones AND audio from my laptop) and pump it directly into my line-in and thus over my WebEx that would carry the audio via VoIP.
Well we didn't get very far because during set up I opened up System Preference and selected Sound, Input to test the Input Level... nothing. They tried a bunch of things and then finally came back to me and said I really needed a pre-amp mixer or something to "power" the signal into my line-in.
Does this make sense? I did a bunch of searches and found a lot of people talking about USB audio interfaces... is that what I need to hook my Macbook Pro up to a mixer in the room?
I want to ensure this doesn't happen again and am willing to pay for it. Any recommendations on portable devices that will help me accomplish this?

They could mean something like this small ($25) pre-amp I use one to raise the signal in from a vinyl deck and it would work just as well for other low level analogue signals I think.

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