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Fun DC date night ideas: ‘Upper Crust Pizzeria’

October 19, 2016 No Comments

No matter if it is the first date night with your crush or the weekly date night with your spouse, you want to have a good time and enjoy a great meal. For those who love pizza and a movie, get excited! Boston’s legendary pizzeria Upper Crust Pizzeria will open its doors next at Arlington’s Lee Heights Shops. In Boston Upper Crust Pizzeria is famous for its enormous, crispy pies and farm-to-pizza toppings and recognized as one of America’s five greenest pizzerias for its eco-friendly products and practices. So what brings the Upper Crust Pizzeria to the DC area? The legendary Boston pizzeria is opening at Arlington’s Lee Heights Shops because DC metro residents want to enjoy the crowd pleasing pizza known for being unique, delicious and extraordinary.

Courtesy of The Upper Crust Pizzeria.

In fact, Upper Crust Pizzeria is no stranger to celebrity clientele and blogosphere rave reviews as the Hollywood appeal and cutting edge-advertising campaigns inspire people to try out the pizzeria for date nights, business lunch outings, and play dates with friends and family alike. On the web there’s no surprise when bloggers and pizza fanatics offer stellar reviews about their restaurant experience at Upper Crust Pizzeria, it’s a 4 to 5 star restaurants in the categories of food, customer service and decor. If you are planning for date night, you’ll have plenty to talk about and eat as the pizzeria has its very own top-secret recipe and uses the freshest local ingredients available to truly give couples and overall customers a very unique, delicious and healthy meal any time of the day. If pizza is one of your favorite foods, some things you will enjoy about the restaurant is never having canned or frozen toppings because most of the pizzeria’s toppings arrive from farm-to-pizza within 24 hours.

For DC lovebirds looking for an affordable, unique, fun date night hot spot, this is it. The pizzeria is open 7 days a week and you have the option of dine-in, take-out as well as a delivery service with a full menu of wicked fancy pizzas, calzones, salads, and appetizers. Moreover, the Upper Crust Pizzeria offers free parking and conveniently in Arlington,VA making it easily accessible from the DC Metro. To spot the great date night hot spot, look for the colorful awnings in the 4500 block of Lee Highway between Old Dominion Drive and Lorcom Lane. To check out the menu for your next date night, visit the website at TheUpperCrustPizzeria.com or call (703) 527-9000 to learn about the people, the pizza, and the passion of this new favorite DC pizzeria and date night hot spot. Let the DC Relationship Examiner know how your date night goes by leaving a comment about your date night experience and other favorite date night hot spots.

Career, Entertainment, FG2G TV

From Cali to the DMV meet the host of Great Day Washington Markette Sheppard

October 15, 2016 No Comments

Searching for ways to have a great day in the district? Then get excited for ‘Great Day Washington’, starring Markette Sheppard and co hosts Chris Leary and Meaghan Mooney. The day show is a live, lifestyle focused daily talk show. But who is the woman behind Great Day Washington?

California native Markette Sheppard’s moved to Washington DC two weeks after finishing college for her first job opportunity in web producing. Many recent graduates get comfortable having a stable job in corporate America, but Sheppard did not want to stop at too comfortable. She decided to follow her dream. It came down to doing it now or never. Sheppard felt if she didn’t follow her dream during her late 20’s, it may never happen or she would get too comfortable playing it safe.

So what did Sheppard do? She made use of her interactive journalism degree from American University and created reels on lifestyle topics. These lifestyle reels led her to a job opportunity at Prince George Community TV, which covers real news every day. From there Sheppard uploaded reels on her Youtube channel and she entered a nationwide search contest to find the next co-host of Live with Regis and Kelly in 2012 where she made it to the final four. That opportunity opened doors for Sheppard and she got a lifestyle feature on NBC’s Today Show as well as national and local credits via VH1, AMC Movie News and Fox Richmond. Once again, TV producers were watching on Youtube, but this time WUSA9 reached out to her about being a talk show host for Great Day Washington. It’s a dream job and perfect for Sheppard who is now a mother because she has a supportive team who understands the challenges working parents face and overall accepts that life happens, creating a good work and life balance for the talk show host, mom, husband and entrepreneur. In fact, Sheppard says becoming the host of Great Day Washington is a huge blessing as she can discuss sustainable lifestyle and entertainment topics while being attentive to her husband and son.

During our interview with Sheppard,we got to learn more about her passions, public speaking and what we can expect from Great Day Washington. Here is the scoop:

Briana Booker: Tell me about yourself. What inspired you to take this career path in journalism and public speaking?

Markette Sheppard: I’ve always enjoyed meeting different people, performing, public speaking and covering real stories from real people. Telling the truth, the real story is what I love about my job.

BB: What are the types of people who succeed in your field?

MS:Fearless people. In this industry you really don’t know where you’ll end up. Many career paths have a charted course. In journalism, you cannot chart your course. You don’t know if you’ll become an anchor or a talk show host in my case because at the end of the day none of us know the future. It reminds me of this quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. :

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

In life, we can try to predict our path, but there’s no guarantee where we will end up. A job might lay you off. You may leave an organization because you realize you want to pursue other career paths. It comes down to playing it safe your entire life or go big. I chose to go big.

BB: What inspired you to go big?

MS: Why not me? When I heard about the search for Regis’ replacement there was no doubt I couldn’t do it. I did the audition video right in my living room with the idea it’s gonna happen. I go through the first round, semi-finals and made it to the final four. I am a firm believer committing to something will take you places. I went from Youtube to radio and now TV. Getting the experience means everything when pursuing a dream.

BB: What topics will you cover? Will it include a food segment?

MS: Great Day Washington is a hyper local ( MD, DC, and VA) day time talk show, covering lifestyle and entertainment. You can expect big stars such as a certain late night host , OWN TV reality TV star. and local celebrities We have a great line up and yes, we will cover food in our live kitchen set with a global top chef as well as visits to some of the best restaurants in the area.

BB: What are five things you can’t live without?

A sweater, Mexican food, my baby boy Wesley, husband and good people.

MS: What is your motto or advice you cannot live without?

BB: If you want to live out a dream, start on the little things now. You don’t have to wait to do what you want in life. It took me five or six years to live out my dream and it all started with a video camera and a can do attitude. Start now.

We love how passionate and genuine Markette Sheppard is on and off the air. We look forward to watching Great Day Washington, 5 days a week at 9:00AM. Let us know your thoughts about the talk show and stay connected with Markette on Twitter ( @super_markette) and check out her entrepreneurial ventures ( we love Markette Sheppard’s natural and organic cosmetics from MessengerBeauty.com) at MarketteSheppard.com. Let us know your thoughts on the new talk show all about the great things Washington DC has to offer as well as Sheppard’s beauty products.

Business

The Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Social Media Assistant – Briana Booker

August 23, 2014 No Comments

Chicago Social Media Contractor / DC Social Media Contractor — For information on Briana Booker’s Social Media Contractor Services, connect on Linkedin!

Are you searching for ways to generate more profitability for your business? If yes, you have to focus on two primary factors: generating revenue and reducing business costs. Many companies rely on generating sales to boost up business profitability but cutting costs while maintaining high quality service can help your company truly succeed.

One way you can carry out business success is to hire independent contractors. My name is Briana Booker and I am an independent Social Media Contractor. I offer digital marketing services to the public as well as government entities.

As a business owner, you can hire contract workers to do essential tasks for your company to cut the costs to hire full-time employees.

Here are the main benefits of hiring Independent contractors for your digital marketing efforts:

You won’t have to pay taxes related to hiring employees. Every time you hire a new employee, you have to pay payroll taxes to go towards that employee’s Social Security and Medicare. On average an employer is responsible for paying 6.2% of any employee’s salary up to $106,800 simply for Social Security. With independent social media contractors, they are responsible for paying self-employment taxes. That means you are not required to pay for Social Security, Medicare on any withholding taxes on behalf of the independent social media contractors.
Job benefits are not a need. You don’t have to offer paid vacation time, retirement plans etc to independent contractors. The social media contractors are flexible so you can cut your labor costs.
You can use the flexibility of social media contractors to your advantage because you will have increased flexibility during times of fluctuating demand. When business is slow you won’t have to waste money paying full-time employee salaries. When there’s a sudden demand, you will know you’ll have high quality work and you can affordably address business demands with your social contract work. Never again will you have to worry about being understaffed during periods of high demand or have employees that are unproductive during slow periods ( yet you’re paying the same amount to keep those employees).

Hiring an independent social media contractor is a great way to save on labor costs. I am here to offer you high quality social media contractor services. I can help you develop a custom social media package that not only meets your service needs but also helps you save more on your digital marketing efforts. Connect with me on LinkedIn and take a look at my digital marketing portfolio to see what I can offer your business today.

I offer Social Media Contracting Services nationwide, particularly Chicago, Baltimore, DC and New York. My digital marketing services are virtual but I will travel in-person to clients or have a representative from Fromgirltogirl.com come to your business for consulting services.