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      <title>Friday 13th.... will be a GREAT DAY on 11/13/09 </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For years I've heard people cringe when they thought of it being Friday the 13th.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well, I decided years ago to start thinking of this day as a &quot;Special day for me&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It's all about a MINDSET and I've set my mind to&amp;nbsp; making this day a special day.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So today I bought a lottery ticket and I feel that tomorrow, Friday 13th&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;will be the lucky day I have been looking for.&amp;nbsp; Have a wonderful day everyone &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and Happy Friday 13th to YOU!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:53:25 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Making Sure Your Customers Are Really Satisfied!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Making Sure Your Customers Are Really Satisfied&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much Bob Corcoran for sharing this&amp;nbsp;with us. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever thought of using a satisfaction questionnaire to keep in touch with your clients? According to Businesstown.com, most unhappy customers will not complain directly to the business they are unhappy with. Instead, they will complain to everyone they know while taking their business to a competitor. To counteract this possibility, businesses are increasingly making follow-up calls or sending out satisfaction questionnaires after a sale is made.&amp;nbsp; If you go to Walgreen's, Red Lobster, or JC Penney's, you will find a number on the receipt to call to complete a customer satisfaction survey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might consider sending out a survey to clients who have completed a transaction or even to prospects who have received a few months of your emails.&amp;nbsp; Your questionnaire can be very simple and straightforward, and if done right, the survey can convey that you care about your service and want to improve it.&amp;nbsp; This means that you may ask customers questions that can be answered by checking choices like &quot;Very satisfied,&quot; &quot;Somewhat satisfied,&quot; or &quot;Not satisfied,&quot; but you also offer them a chance to voice an opinion about why they made the choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The responses to open ended questions can offer insights about what you do right and what needs improvement.&amp;nbsp; It may spotlight employees who did a great job.&amp;nbsp; If you follow up on your negative or lukewarm responses, you can pave the way for repeat business or at least soften the anger of a customer who feels he was mistreated.&amp;nbsp; Often, even a customer who was unsatisfied with aspects of a transaction can be pacified with a call that attempts to make things right or at least offers an apology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make sure you are prepared to act on negative responses. Nothing turns a customer sour faster than to complete a questionnaire voicing dissatisfaction, only to never be contacted by that company again. On the other hand, businesses who promptly follow-up and resolve customer complaints quickly are finding that those customers are more likely to do repeat business than the average customer who does not have a complaint.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:02:24 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Thank you to all of the Vetrans and soldiers serving our country! </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you to all the soldiers that are protecting our country and all of the Veterans.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;May God Bless America and may all of them return back to their families safely.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:37:13 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>MEETUP and what is this all about... </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;MEETUP&amp;nbsp; was a word that I heard for many months before I finally took a look at it and realized that this may be a new way for me to meet new people, network and share leads with them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I told one of the agents at my office that we are going to schedule our own&lt;br /&gt;Investors Meetup Group for Johns Creek/Duluth and Alpharetta, Georgia.&amp;nbsp; We set it up in a restaurant and I said either someone will show up or she and I will enjoy a wonderful dinner together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, here it is a year later and we have over 288 members who thought this was a great idea and joined us.&amp;nbsp; Now we meet on monthly basis and what is happening is that relationships have built and we are doing so much together.&amp;nbsp; We have speakers, we network, we have a wonderful lunch and it's a win-win benefit for everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are curious about Meetup go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meetup.com&quot;&gt;www.meetup.com&lt;/a&gt; and put in your zip code.&amp;nbsp; Every single meetup group will pop up from mothers with children with autism, internet marketers, investors meetup, singles, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Find what you want to learn more about or what would benefit you best.&lt;br /&gt;Then MEETUP with those people on regular basis.&amp;nbsp; Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are interested about our meetup group - visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realestate.meetup.com/413&quot;&gt;www.realestate.meetup.com/413&lt;/a&gt; and check us out.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:33:11 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Green Homes, Green Buildings, Green Investments! </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;GREEN, GREEN, GREEN!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Money is GREEN but now everywhere you look builders, developers, investors are talking &lt;br /&gt;about the new buzz word &quot;GREEN&quot;.&amp;nbsp; Green Buildings, Green Homes, Green Communities!&lt;br /&gt;I went to visit a new development last week and the developer/builder took me on a tour&lt;br /&gt;of his homes with more natural light, green materials and built to the green specifications.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know that every BUYER that invests in a home today will get more for their GREEN!&amp;nbsp; They&lt;br /&gt;will get GREEN because these&amp;nbsp;homes are more efficient, they have tighter materials, they&lt;br /&gt;offer value for your GREEN!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have now attended two conventions for CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) where &lt;br /&gt;I learned about the developer/builder utilizing LEED Standards. I want to be knowledgeable&lt;br /&gt;so that I can assist my clients in today's market to give them GREEN for their money and&lt;br /&gt;my knowledge and expertise.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The question is NOT how much more does GREEN cost? The question is how much GREEN&lt;br /&gt;can we be with our today's budget and how much GREEN will this give us over the years?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's truly remarkable.&amp;nbsp; I discussed with one developer how schools are now built GREEN.&lt;br /&gt;Manufacturing companies put more skylights so that employees can have more natural&lt;br /&gt;light, therefore, they work more efficiently.&amp;nbsp; Children in GREEN schools are more alert.&lt;br /&gt;I flew thru the Paris airport and noticed that they were planting GREEN plants on their &lt;br /&gt;hangars.&amp;nbsp; The carpeting they now install is GREEN, it is supposedly static free and has no&lt;br /&gt;chemicals that are dangerous to us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We better watch out!&amp;nbsp; Pretty soon our neighbors will be turning GREEN with envy if they&lt;br /&gt;see how much GREEN we have in our homes.&amp;nbsp; So my advise to you is, don't be mean,&lt;br /&gt;GO GREEN!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:54:18 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>International from A-Z because I care about helping others in real estate! </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I was born in Europe and moved to the U.S. as a teenager.&amp;nbsp; I have traveled to 38 different countries and built a huge network of friends and professionals from all over the &lt;strong&gt;world&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; What I found out is that we all interact through e-mail, through conferences we attend and through the business we do internationally.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I receive calls daily from friends, colleagues and past clients asking me who do I know that can finance a deal for them in Costa Rica, which attorney can they use setting up offshore corporation, how do they get a visa, which translation companies to use when working with clients in another country, where can they get more information about currency, what are the laws in Panama regarding ownership, etc. etc. etc. etc.&amp;nbsp; I've answered questions for everyone &lt;strong&gt;from A-Z&lt;/strong&gt; over the years and now with this incredibly huge network I've built, I've decided to link it all together and let people that I know and the people they know start communicating through my network.&amp;nbsp; We now have so many more of our colleagues e-mailing us their link and soon you will see our incredibly huge network &lt;strong&gt;&quot;International from A-Z&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; appear worldwide.&amp;nbsp; Millions of contacts, professionals in all of these categories are now being processed and we welcome you to join this incredible network.&amp;nbsp; E-mail us your link and you too can benefit from networking with us.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please e-mail us at:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:dagmar@WorldClassRealEstateBroker.com&quot;&gt;dagmar@WorldClassRealEstateBroker.com&lt;/a&gt; with the headline &quot;&lt;strong&gt;We're excited to be part of&amp;nbsp; &quot;International from A-Z&quot;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let us also hear your testimonials about how our network has helped you and we will post them later on our testimonial page.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&amp;nbsp; Dagmar Sands&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Your &lt;strong&gt;World Class Real Estate Broker&lt;/strong&gt; and your &lt;strong&gt;International Connection&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;from A-Z&quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:52:22 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Resorts in Other Countries - International Resorts - Second Homes for Seniors</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;What can real estate professionals do while business is slow in their own market area?&lt;br /&gt;They can help baby boomers who are retiring purchase an investment in resorts overseas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Carribean Islands, - anywhere they can&lt;br /&gt;still do business, receive medical assistance, medical tourism, relax on the beach next to&lt;br /&gt;the ocean, near a spa,etc.&amp;nbsp; Who can make the connection for these Realtors that want to &lt;br /&gt;receive referrals from sending their clients to us?&amp;nbsp; Our network in FIABCI and our network&lt;br /&gt;International from A-Z.&amp;nbsp; All you need to do is e-mail us and we can sign you up for our&lt;br /&gt;referral network.&amp;nbsp; Huge developers are signing up with us to pay 3-6% commissions to&lt;br /&gt;referring brokers.&amp;nbsp; Teaming up with these developers is giving us an opportunity to help&lt;br /&gt;agents in a slow market.&amp;nbsp; Allow us to make that connection for you if you are interested.&lt;br /&gt;e-mail us at:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:dagmar@WorldClassRealEstateBroker.com&quot;&gt;dagmar@WorldClassRealEstateBroker.com&lt;/a&gt; and we will send you all the&lt;br /&gt;instructions.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:50:54 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Retired - Active Seniors - Adult Communities - Staying Active after 65 </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I tried to sit down with my dad who just retired and&lt;strong&gt; teach him how to &lt;br /&gt;use a computer&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; My dad still is resisting.&amp;nbsp; He has retired in January of last year&lt;br /&gt;and he is very bored at home.&amp;nbsp; I thought finding ways to google interesting &lt;br /&gt;subjects, visit his home country of Czech Republic would interest him.&amp;nbsp; Well,&lt;br /&gt;he watched me as I showed him what to do and how to do it and then said&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NO... I don't think this is for me.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;My dad is old fashioned and he's from the old school!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;That's o.k.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; I am &lt;strong&gt;patient&lt;br /&gt;with him&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;strong&gt;when I was growing up he was patient with me&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;The role &lt;br /&gt;somehow changes as we age.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; We think we know more than our parents but &lt;br /&gt;in reality, &lt;strong&gt;we don't.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; I only want both of my parents to stay active seniors and &lt;br /&gt;active adults.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;I will always be there for my parents&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; I'm also from the old &lt;br /&gt;school.&amp;nbsp; I don't believe in putting your parents in a retirement home.&amp;nbsp; In&lt;br /&gt;my country, Czech Republic, children always took care of their parents.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have visited many of the adult communities because of my real estate &lt;br /&gt;profession and knowing that this is the future in real estate.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;I am pleased&lt;br /&gt;to see our adult seniors very active&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Just last week I heard of a couple that&lt;br /&gt;lives in one of the Parc communities in their eighties that they walk up the&lt;br /&gt;stairs each morning up to the 19th floor.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;That's incredible!&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Congratulations&lt;br /&gt;to them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt; Let's all stay active, let's all do our part to take care of our parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Sincerely,&amp;nbsp; Dagmar Sands&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:49:05 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>My special Social Networks where I advertise my listings &amp; network</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Connecting People with People&lt;/strong&gt;, learning about daily thoughts members have that they&lt;br /&gt;are willing to share, being real and being fun!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1.&amp;nbsp; LinkedIN&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp; Active Rain&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp; Plaxo&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp; Xing&lt;br /&gt;5.&amp;nbsp; Ning&lt;br /&gt;6.&amp;nbsp; Boomj&lt;br /&gt;7.&amp;nbsp; Facebook&lt;br /&gt;8.&amp;nbsp; MySpace&lt;br /&gt;9.&amp;nbsp; International from A-Z&lt;br /&gt;10.WordPress&lt;br /&gt;11.Del.i.cious&lt;br /&gt;12.Loopnet&lt;br /&gt;13.Creopoint&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are your favorite Networks?&amp;nbsp; Please share them with me and let me know if there &lt;br /&gt;are any that I have not mentioned yet. &lt;br /&gt;I look forward to your comments.&amp;nbsp; Sincerely,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt; Dagmar Sands&lt;/strong&gt; - Real Estate International, Inc.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:46:45 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Johns Creek Chamber Event.... </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;What an incredible event at the Belk Store at the FORUM in Peachtree Corners.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Members of the board dressed up as models and showed off latest fashions at the Belk.&lt;br /&gt;It was educational, funny, entertaining and a blast.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have met so many different people from all walks of life.&amp;nbsp; Photographers, Financial&lt;br /&gt;Planners, Gourmet Chefs, Hairstylists, Chiropractors, Advertising Magazine Owners,&lt;br /&gt;Realtors and many others.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When I walked away I felt inspired, excited to do business in Johns Creek, GA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am proud to be a member of the Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce in Johns Creek,&lt;br /&gt;Georgia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:16:25 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Are you looking for UNIQUE approach to sell your real estate?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have always looked at things in a different light.&amp;nbsp; I was given a God given talent&lt;br /&gt;to see things not for what they are but what they can be.&amp;nbsp; That is why my success &lt;br /&gt;in selling real estate for 30 years is directly related to this talent.&amp;nbsp; I have SOLD&lt;br /&gt;homes that other Realtors could not sell because I marketed them in a unique way.&lt;br /&gt;I created POWERHOUSE plan when things were slow and were not selling.&amp;nbsp; I joined&lt;br /&gt;organizations and networked so that my sellers would get exposure to their listings&lt;br /&gt;not just locally but nationally and internationally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have SOLD churches when other agents laughed at me when I told them I was&lt;br /&gt;a &quot;Church Specialist&quot;. I resold a Romanian Baptist church to a Japanese School.&amp;nbsp;I&lt;br /&gt;knew that the school needed large room and the sanctuary was perfect for graduation&lt;br /&gt;services.&amp;nbsp; Sunday School classrooms became school classrooms.&amp;nbsp; It all worked out &lt;br /&gt;perfectly.&amp;nbsp;I have turned old car lots into church parking lots.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have SOLD land and lots to huge developers and it all started because I was willing&lt;br /&gt;to start with a small lot which led to larger tracts of land.&amp;nbsp; I went overseas to represent&lt;br /&gt;US seller to make sure his closing went smoothly and money was transferred to his &lt;br /&gt;account without delays or problems. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I tell my story at conferences I have been told to write it all down.&amp;nbsp; That is why&lt;br /&gt;I started writing my book called &quot;How I became a Purple Snowflake in Real Estate&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;It's a book sharing unique approach to selling real estate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's funny - I have posted a brief note on Facebook about it and I have already &lt;br /&gt;PRESOLD copies.&amp;nbsp; This has inspired me more to finish the book and share it with &lt;br /&gt;my colleagues, my friends and my clients.&amp;nbsp; So be on a lookout for it!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Dagmar Sands - Real Estate International, Inc.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:23:49 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>How did I sell the home for Brad Pitts? How we can sell homes for clients faster?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have been very fortunate for many years to list and sell UNIQUE&lt;br /&gt;properties and UNIQUE homes.&amp;nbsp; Why? Because I use unique approach&lt;br /&gt;to everything I do in real estate.&amp;nbsp; I am different and I call myself the&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Purple Snowflake&quot; in my market.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was an International Property Specialist with CIPS designation back&lt;br /&gt;in the early 1990's.&amp;nbsp; I was #46 out of 800,000 Realtors to earn this &lt;br /&gt;designation because I wanted to be different.&amp;nbsp; I flew all over the &lt;br /&gt;world to attend FIABCI (The International Real Estate Federation) &lt;br /&gt;meetings, conventions, World Congresses and classes.&amp;nbsp; I completed&lt;br /&gt;my 5 transactions with Foreign buyers and then took the test.&amp;nbsp; I waited&lt;br /&gt;with excitement to get my CIPS designation.&amp;nbsp; I will never forget the&lt;br /&gt;HIGH I felt on the day when I received it.&amp;nbsp; I learned then that when you&lt;br /&gt;do UNIQUE things you get UNIQUE results.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When Mr. Brad Pitts called me and asked me to sell his home I was&lt;br /&gt;very excited.&amp;nbsp; I knew this was a ONE OF A KIND property!&amp;nbsp; The home&lt;br /&gt;was on the market for 2 years and I had to do something different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I created a beautiful virtual tour &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.BradPittsHome.com&quot;&gt;www.BradPittsHome.com&lt;/a&gt; and started&lt;br /&gt;marketing it through FIABCI broadcast e-mails, through my own &lt;br /&gt;past clients, through my social media and through Proxio.&amp;nbsp; I had &lt;br /&gt;agents from Atlanta to Colorado marketing it on their websites as&lt;br /&gt;well because of the GREATEST TEAMWORK I've created over the years&lt;br /&gt;of SUPERSTARS in Real Estate.&amp;nbsp; We all help each other.&amp;nbsp; I showed the&lt;br /&gt;property so my Czech clients, I marketed it to US, Canadian and&lt;br /&gt;European clients.&amp;nbsp; Seller agreed to pay a higher commission to get it&lt;br /&gt;SOLD quickly.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I've had inquiries from Hawaii, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago and&lt;br /&gt;all over about this home.&amp;nbsp; I knew I had a great product, we just needed&lt;br /&gt;a huge marketing campaign.&amp;nbsp; We started to get many showings.&amp;nbsp; We&lt;br /&gt;had several prospects ready to make an offer.&amp;nbsp; We had the local agents&lt;br /&gt;very involved as well.&amp;nbsp; A buyer from Florida ended up buying the property&lt;br /&gt;and we co-oped on the transaction.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;nbsp;SOLD in less than 4 months.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Needless to say - our client Mr. Brad Pitts was very happy and SOLD &lt;br /&gt;the home for the FULL PRICE.&amp;nbsp; Another SATISFIED Customer! That is&lt;br /&gt;My Goal with all of my listings!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Want to Learn &amp; Apply Technology in your own Real Estate?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have started my own Meetup Group in Johns Creek/Alpharetta/Duluth, GA &lt;br /&gt;for investors.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Our groups has really grown and we try to keep fresh topics,&lt;br /&gt;bring new tips to our members and generate leads.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I've learned is:&amp;nbsp; Everyone uses technology today and our group proved&lt;br /&gt;to be HUNGRY for more information.&amp;nbsp; That is why I started my research and&lt;br /&gt;wanted to bring the BEST of the BEST technology tips to our members. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I brought two speakers last week - Devon Brown and Maritza Parra to give &lt;br /&gt;testimonials about their own business and then share tips on how they &lt;br /&gt;apply technology in their business.&amp;nbsp; This led 11 of our members to go to an&lt;br /&gt;event this weekend to learn more and go into detail about video, blogging,&lt;br /&gt;flip cameras, writing articles, social networks, target marketing and easy tips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can honestly say - you can be learning while you are earning.&amp;nbsp; The more&lt;br /&gt;you learn, the more you make!&amp;nbsp; The more your clients benefit from your&lt;br /&gt;expertise, the more you add value to your service.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am now going to write my book called &quot;How I Became the PURPLE &lt;br /&gt;SNOWFLAKE&quot; in Real Estate.&amp;nbsp; I hope you will enjoy my tips sharing with you&lt;br /&gt;how YOU TOO can be different in your own market.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sharing and now giving back is what my goal is for 2010. With only few &lt;br /&gt;months left in 2009 I'm already planning my goals for next year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So stay tuned&amp;nbsp;for tips from&amp;nbsp;Dagmar Sands&amp;nbsp; - Real Estate International, Inc. &lt;br /&gt;on how to apply technology in your own real estate business, how to write &lt;br /&gt;new articles, how to become a Purple Snowflake in whatever you do, on how &lt;br /&gt;to use flip camera, how to use social networks and how to best target market&lt;br /&gt;your audience.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:01:42 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I am keeping a new list of &quot;Social Networks&quot; and would love to hear from&lt;br /&gt;all of the Active Rain members which ones they use the most.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please share them with me here and I will post them to our list and share&lt;br /&gt;them with others.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Dagmar Sands&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Johns Creek, Alpharetta, Duluth, Atlanta, GA - Technology &amp; Networking Meetup</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trust me on this!&amp;nbsp; These speakers will CHANGE your life, just like they have mine!&lt;br /&gt;They will also change the way your business can grow through technology &amp;amp; internet.&lt;br /&gt;Social networking is now changing any business whether you are selling cars, real estate,&lt;br /&gt;products, services or just yourself! Please mark your calendars today and bring a friend. &lt;br /&gt;Please remember - we need you to R.S.V.P. - we need an exact number because we&lt;br /&gt;have the BEST SPEAKERS and Outback needs a head count &lt;br /&gt;so do it today and you can also prepay with PayPal or Credit Card&lt;br /&gt;at&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realestate.meetup.com/413&quot;&gt;www.realestate.meetup.com/413&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 13, 2009&lt;/strong&gt; we will have &lt;strong&gt;Outback Steakhouse&lt;/strong&gt; OPEN the Restaurant&lt;br /&gt;JUST for our MEETUP group. We have two incredible Speakers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maritza Parra&lt;/strong&gt; who was on Oprah Winfrey Show - wait till you hear her story&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Devon Brown&lt;/strong&gt; - Internet Marketing GURU who will share tips with you on how&lt;br /&gt;to position yourself and your company and do more business through the &lt;br /&gt;internet, social networks, internet marketing and networking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Mark your calendar and please &lt;strong&gt;R.S.V.P&lt;/strong&gt;. we have other groups joining&lt;br /&gt;us and we need to know the final count. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date: 10/13/09 - time 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. &lt;br /&gt;Outback Steakhouse 10955 Jones Bridge Rd. Johns Creek, GA 30022&lt;br /&gt;770-442-8775 $20.00&lt;/strong&gt; includes lunch and meeting &lt;br /&gt;Please R.S.V.P. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realestate.meetup.com/413&quot;&gt;www.realestate.meetup.com/413&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You definitely don't want to miss this event - bring plenty of business cards&lt;br /&gt;and bring a friend!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:23:37 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Ivanka Trump speaks about Women in Leadership at CREW Convention! </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I had the privilege of meeting Ivanka Trump in Boston, MA at the &lt;br /&gt;CREW Convention last week.&amp;nbsp; Ivanka talked about her dad and what&lt;br /&gt;a great role model he has been to her and a great mentor.&amp;nbsp; She &lt;br /&gt;talked about her experience in Leadership in the Trump Organization.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sitting around a board room with mostly all male members it is&lt;br /&gt;challenging but Ivanka Trump at age 28 is mastering the skills&lt;br /&gt;of leadership.&amp;nbsp; I have to say that for a young woman at age 28 &lt;br /&gt;she is very poised, smart and knowledgeable.&amp;nbsp; She has great &lt;br /&gt;education and is learning the ART of making a deal just like her &lt;br /&gt;dad, Donald Trump.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked Ivanka Trump this question:&amp;nbsp; &quot;Ivanka, you've talked about&lt;br /&gt;your dad and what a great role model he is, what about your mom,&lt;br /&gt;Ivana Trump who was born and raised in the same country that I &lt;br /&gt;was raised in, Czechoslovakia.&amp;nbsp; What kind of a role model was your&lt;br /&gt;mom in your life?&quot;&amp;nbsp; She replied &quot; My mom is a very detailed person.&lt;br /&gt;She ran the Plaza Hotel and Casinos and was always very involved in&lt;br /&gt;all the details all the way to the employees uniforms, the hallways&lt;br /&gt;decor, even light bulbs when they were burned out she brought to the&lt;br /&gt;attention of the General Manager&quot;.&amp;nbsp; Ivanka wrote a book called the&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Trump Card&quot;&amp;nbsp; She has autographed this book for me and I am now&lt;br /&gt;reading it.&amp;nbsp; It talks a lot about her experience growing up in the &lt;br /&gt;Trump household and her life.&amp;nbsp; I recommend this book to any young&lt;br /&gt;woman to read because I think it is very inspiring.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you Ivanka for your Leadership as a woman in today's man's&lt;br /&gt;world and thank you for giving me the opportunity of listening to &lt;br /&gt;your story and sharing your book with me.&amp;nbsp; I truly admire your &lt;br /&gt;accomplishments in the Trump Organization, Your New Jewelry Line&lt;br /&gt;and writing this book.&amp;nbsp; I hope that one day my company, Real Estate&lt;br /&gt;International Inc. and your Trump Organization will get to do some&lt;br /&gt;business transactions together.&amp;nbsp; After ALL - we are both CZECH CHICKS&lt;br /&gt;and both of our grandparents came from the same country and area.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&amp;nbsp; Dagmar Sands - Real Estate International, Inc.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:20:25 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>David Gergen spoke at the CREW Conference in Boston, MA about Leadership..</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;David Gergen was the speaker at our luncheon at CREW Conference&lt;br /&gt;in Boston, MA last week.&amp;nbsp; He is a very funny, smart man and I &lt;br /&gt;thoroughly enjoyed his speech.&amp;nbsp; This is a man who worked for four&lt;br /&gt;(4) of our past USA Presidents and who talked about Leadership&lt;br /&gt;skills and about his experience in the White House.&amp;nbsp; He shared this&lt;br /&gt;funny joke with us and made us all laugh so I thought I'd share it &lt;br /&gt;with you.&amp;nbsp; I really think he is a brilliant man and a great speaker &lt;br /&gt;but most of all I liked how friendly and family oriented he is. &lt;br /&gt;Enjoy his joke - Dagmar Sands&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This guy is 62 years old and loves to fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was sitting in his boat the other day when he heard a voice say, &quot;Pick me &lt;br /&gt;up.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He looked around and couldn't see any one. He thought he was dreaming when &lt;br /&gt;he heard the voice say again, &quot;Pick me up.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He looked in the water and there, floating on the top, was a frog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man said, &quot;Are you talking to me?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The frog said, &quot;Yes, I'm talking to you. Pick me up then, kiss me and I'll &lt;br /&gt;turn into the most beautiful woman you have ever seen. I'll make sure that &lt;br /&gt;all your friends are envious and jealous because I will be your bride!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man looked at the frog for a short time, reached over, picked it up &lt;br /&gt;carefully, and placed it in his front breast pocket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the frog said, &quot;What, are you nuts? Didn't you hear what I said? I said &lt;br /&gt;kiss me and I will be your beautiful bride.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He opened his pocket, looked at the frog and said,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Nah, at my age I'd rather have a talking frog.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:08:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Thank You to all my Mentors who've helped me to where I am today!</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have returned from Boston, MA where I've attended the CREW Convention.&lt;br /&gt;(Commercial Real Estate Women).&amp;nbsp; What an event! I took a &quot;Leadership &lt;br /&gt;Course taught by Dr. Gloria Schuck which truly inspired me.&amp;nbsp; It taught me &lt;br /&gt;about Flexibility, Control, Values, Energy, Practice, Courage, Respect,&lt;br /&gt;Authenticity, Being Mindful, Self Awareness, Renewal and Adaptability. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main thing that I took away is that we are ALL Leaders at some capacity.&lt;br /&gt;Whether in real estate, or at school organizations, chambers, or groups that&lt;br /&gt;we belong to.&amp;nbsp; We all collectively have the capacit to create a future.&lt;br /&gt;Everybody has it and if you TEAM up with others, give everyone a voice and&lt;br /&gt;lead your team with respect, it's unbelievable how far you can get.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a good Leader you can inspire, give courage, empower, train, guide and&lt;br /&gt;be fair to everyone on your team.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One more important lesson is:&amp;nbsp; Don't forget to THANK those mentors who &lt;br /&gt;have helped you to where you are today.&amp;nbsp; Pick up the phone and let them &lt;br /&gt;know how much you appreciate them.&amp;nbsp; It can be your parents, your friends,&lt;br /&gt;your teachers and professors, your boss or someone that was there during&lt;br /&gt;the time when you needed them the most.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, be a Mentor to others!&amp;nbsp; Help young people in your field, help your&lt;br /&gt;own children to be the better Leader!&amp;nbsp; Develop a LEGACY list and be on &lt;br /&gt;many LEGACY lists.&amp;nbsp; One day someone will call you and THANK YOU for being&lt;br /&gt;a mentor in their life.&amp;nbsp; I hope to be on many LEGACY lists.&amp;nbsp; Dagmar Sands&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:00:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Dagmar Sands and a TEAM of Professional women are OFF to Boston, MA in the&lt;br /&gt;morning to attend the CREW Convention.&amp;nbsp; I am so excited to do more networking&lt;br /&gt;with these professional women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It seems that every time that I have to go out of town, contracts start coming in.&lt;br /&gt;Isn't that amazing how that works?&amp;nbsp; I have two contracts this week.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps I &lt;br /&gt;should travel more often.&amp;nbsp; :-)&amp;nbsp; I love it!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:13:37 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Animal Lover - Help these animals out! Please click away! </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, all you animal lovers, here is &amp;nbsp;how you can show you care!!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Subject: Fw: RSPCA - IT'S quick - please do it!! - It's Free &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Hi, all you animal lovers! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is pretty &amp;nbsp;simple... Please &lt;strong&gt;ask&lt;/strong&gt; ten friends to each &lt;strong&gt;ask&lt;/strong&gt; a further ten today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting &amp;nbsp;enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of &amp;nbsp;getting&lt;strong&gt;FREE FOOD &lt;/strong&gt;donated every day to abused and neglected animals. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It takes less than a minute&lt;/strong&gt; (about 15 seconds) to go to their site &amp;nbsp;and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals for free'. This &amp;nbsp;doesn't cost you a thing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their corporate &amp;nbsp;sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food &amp;nbsp;to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for &amp;nbsp;advertising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the web site! Please pass it along to &amp;nbsp;people you know. &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AGAIN, PLEASE TELL 10 &amp;nbsp;FRIENDS -- I just did! &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thank You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;
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      <title>Johns Creek, Georgia - Great Networking Featuring Maritza Parra &amp; Devon Brown</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trust me on this!&amp;nbsp; These speakers will CHANGE your life, just like they have mine!&lt;br /&gt;They will also change the way your business can grow through technology &amp;amp; internet.&lt;br /&gt;Social networking is now changing any business whether you are selling cars, real estate,&lt;br /&gt;products, services or just yourself! Please mark your calendars today and bring a friend. &lt;br /&gt;Please remember - we need you to R.S.V.P. - we need an exact number because we&lt;br /&gt;have the BEST SPEAKERS and Outback needs a head count &lt;br /&gt;so do it today and you can also prepay with PayPal or Credit Card&lt;br /&gt;at&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realestate.meetup.com/413&quot;&gt;www.realestate.meetup.com/413&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 13, 2009&lt;/strong&gt; we will have &lt;strong&gt;Outback Steakhouse&lt;/strong&gt; OPEN the Restaurant&lt;br /&gt;JUST for our MEETUP group. We have two incredible Speakers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maritza Parra&lt;/strong&gt; who was on Oprah Winfrey Show - wait till you hear her story&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Devon Brown&lt;/strong&gt; - Internet Marketing GURU who will share tips with you on how&lt;br /&gt;to position yourself and your company and do more business through the &lt;br /&gt;internet, social networks, internet marketing and networking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Mark your calendar and please &lt;strong&gt;R.S.V.P&lt;/strong&gt;. we have other groups joining&lt;br /&gt;us and we need to know the final count. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date: 10/13/09 - time 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. &lt;br /&gt;Outback Steakhouse 10955 Jones Bridge Rd. Johns Creek, GA 30022&lt;br /&gt;770-442-8775 $20.00&lt;/strong&gt; includes lunch and meeting &lt;br /&gt;Please R.S.V.P. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realestate.meetup.com/413&quot;&gt;www.realestate.meetup.com/413&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You definitely don't want to miss this event - bring plenty of business cards&lt;br /&gt;and bring a friend!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:29:20 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/1260589/johns-creek-georgia-great-networking-featuring-maritza-parra-devon-brown</link>
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      <title>SUCCESS.... is not an accident! </title>
      <description>Success is not an accident!  

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      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:25:14 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/1260586/success-is-not-an-accident-</link>
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      <title>Twitter, Facebook, Xing, Ning, My Space, Active Rain.. what else am I missing?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Twitter, Facebook, Xing, Ning, My Space, Active Rain, Creopoint&lt;br /&gt;.... what else am I missing?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am now on all of these social media networks and I'm really &lt;br /&gt;learning so much.&amp;nbsp; What else am I missing?&amp;nbsp; If you know of &lt;br /&gt;any other media that I may not be aware of, please share&lt;br /&gt;them with me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am like a sponge lately, learning all of this social networking and it's&lt;br /&gt;great.&amp;nbsp; Now all I need is to learn the SEO system and how to get to be&lt;br /&gt;#1.... any tips??&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance for your help.&amp;nbsp; Dagmar Sands&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:01:57 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/1253395/twitter-facebook-xing-ning-my-space-active-rain-what-else-am-i-missing-</link>
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      <title>Technology, Networking and Incredible Speakers - Johns Creek/Alpharetta, GA</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Trust me on this!&amp;nbsp; These speakers will CHANGE your life, just like they have mine!&lt;br /&gt;They will also change the way your business can grow through technology &amp;amp; internet.&lt;br /&gt;Social networking is now changing any business whether you are selling cars, real estate,&lt;br /&gt;products, services or just yourself! Please mark your calendars today and bring a friend. &lt;br /&gt;Please remember - we need you to R.S.V.P. - we need an exact number because we&lt;br /&gt;have the BEST SPEAKERS and Outback needs a head count &lt;br /&gt;so do it today and you can also prepay with PayPal or Credit Card&lt;br /&gt;at&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realestate.meetup.com/413&quot;&gt;www.realestate.meetup.com/413&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 13, 2009&lt;/strong&gt; we will have &lt;strong&gt;Outback Steakhouse&lt;/strong&gt; OPEN the Restaurant&lt;br /&gt;JUST for our MEETUP group. We have two incredible Speakers:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maritza Parra&lt;/strong&gt; who was on Oprah Winfrey Show - wait till you hear her story&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Devon Brown&lt;/strong&gt; - Internet Marketing GURU who will share tips with you on how&lt;br /&gt;to position yourself and your company and do more business through the &lt;br /&gt;internet, social networks, internet marketing and networking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Mark your calendar and please &lt;strong&gt;R.S.V.P&lt;/strong&gt;. we have other groups joining&lt;br /&gt;us and we need to know the final count. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date: 10/13/09 - time 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. &lt;br /&gt;Outback Steakhouse 10955 Jones Bridge Rd. Johns Creek, GA 30022&lt;br /&gt;770-442-8775 $20.00&lt;/strong&gt; includes lunch and meeting &lt;br /&gt;Please R.S.V.P. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.realestate.meetup.com/413&quot;&gt;www.realestate.meetup.com/413&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You definitely don't want to miss this event - bring plenty of business cards&lt;br /&gt;and bring a friend!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information contact: Dagmar Sands 404-313-3456&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:57:21 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/1253386/technology-networking-and-incredible-speakers-johns-creek-alpharetta-ga</link>
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      <title>Talent - Everyone has their own talent... but this is remarkable...</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I have been working all night long - and as I end my evening and begin&lt;br /&gt;my day I just watched a video that took my breath away.&amp;nbsp; I hope you &lt;br /&gt;will enjoy it as much as I have.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As you already know - I'm Czech so here you go:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Czech out this Ukranian girls talent&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo&quot;&gt;YouTube - Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (??????? ??? ?????? / Ukraine's Got Talent)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unreal, Incredible and beautiful!&amp;nbsp; Dagmar Sands&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <dc:creator>Dagmar Sands    www.DagmarSands.com (Real Estate International, Inc.)</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:53:49 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/1253381/talent-everyone-has-their-own-talent-but-this-is-remarkable-</link>
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