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2017 

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Birthday Dinner at Cafe Roma Chef Dolores and I decided to go to Cafe Roma, a nearby Italian restaurant for my recent birthday dinner. We enjoyed the Linguine with red clam sauce along with the house chardonnay. We will definitely make return visits. Click on the above link to view the website. C...
08/31/2017

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Jim Cheney's Being Human Challenge Santa Rosa, CA blogger Jim Cheney has challenged ActiveRain bloggers to post an August blog on something that is personal and not business related. Since this is the final day of the challenge, I am writing this while Chef Dolores is taking advantage of the beau...
08/31/2017

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Building Relationships with Birthday Greetings If you are among those who systematically mail out birthday cards with your personal messages to your circles of contacts, I encourage you to continue that practice. For the rest of us who have imperfect records on birthdays and fail to send out thos...
08/31/2017

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Prep Time: 25 mins.   Total Time: 25 mins. Serves: 4   Ingredients: 1 lb. flank steak, cut into bite-size pieces kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 5 tsp. sugar, divided 1 tbsp. cornstarch 2 tbsp. plus 1 tsp. vegetable oil, divided, plus more for drizzling 2 large eggs, beaten 2 cloves garl...
08/31/2017

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Dinner at Vasili's Kitchen in Kentlands After attending a happy hour sponsored by ActiveRain member Ann Marie Clements and her husband Jim Mead at The Wine Harvest, Dolores and I decided to have dinner at Vasili's Kitchen, a nearby Mediterranean Restaurant. The food was good and the service was e...
08/30/2017

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Hosting a Social for Clients and Friends Ann Marie Clements and her husband Jim Mead invited us to attend an End of the Season Happy Hour for their clients and friends. Dolores and I enjoyed this event and you may wish to consider this format for one of your social events.Ann Marie is with RE/MAX...
08/30/2017

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You are assisting your prospect in determining her wants and needs and, only then, are you offering solutions. Ask questions like a doctor diagnosing their needs. People have a perception of a salesperson as a pushy person trying to convince someone to buy something he or she does not need. But n...
08/30/2017

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Gaithersburg Chorus Open House, Tuesday, September 5, 2017 The Gaithersburg Chorus is celebrating its 30th season with an Open House on Tuesday, September 5, 2017 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Activity Center at Bohrer Park at 506 South Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland.Participants w...
08/29/2017

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Top Banana Best Practices Challenge ActiveRain Ambassador Anna "Banana" Kruchten has issued an August challenge for member bloggers to write about some of their best business practices. We have a rainy afternoon in Maryland and I decided to participate in the three parts of this challenge.The fir...
08/29/2017

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Book Recommendation: The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Couple Next Door (2016) is a fast reading suspense novel by The New York Times best selling Canadian author and lawyer Shari Lapena. This novel is full of twists and turns and I suggest it for your reading list. Click on the links to l...
08/29/2017
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