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Based on groundbreaking research, and written by the leading authority in the field, Long Distance Relationships teaches the little-known but critical secrets to a happy and healthy long distance relationship. The first work to comprehensively review, cite, and synthesize five decades of research on separated couples, Long Distance Relationships is the definitive guide for the more than 3 million couples who have to be apart.
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Very Helpful.......2007-07-14
Being that I am in a long distance relationship right now I found this book to be very helpful. I know that I have a strong relationship however, I wanted to read this book to get some reassurance as well as some helpful hints to make my relationship even better. I found it nice that he provided boxes throughout the chapter that reaffirmed the things that he was saying so that I can now go back and reference something it will be easier to find it. I found this book overall well written. The one downfall for my self is that I would have liked to have talked a little bit more about same-sex relationships as that is what I am in. However, other than that it was very helpful.
Worthless.......2007-07-12
Maybe for someone in a new relationship this is helpful, but most of it is common sense, and it had no help for people who have limited contact or resources
Not for me........2007-04-16
This book had a lot of helpful tips...but it didn't really captivate me. Also, I felt like I had to have my partner with me in order to complete the activities in the book, which is a little difficult if you are in a long-distance relationship. If you are both setting out on your first LDR then this is probably a good book for you, but if one or both of you already have been in an LDR, you probably don't need this one.
Best Chapters are Free.......2007-03-01
The best chapters of this book are published in PDF format for free on the web.
Wonderful Info.......2007-01-10
For you out there dealing with what I'm dealing right now, it's a must have tool. It beats talking to your friends who don't understand LDRs. LDRs are not hard at all especially when you've met the RIGHT one. It's a feel-so-good-you-want-to-go-shopping-all-the-time feeling!
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This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance.
By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties.
With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies.
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How It Happened, Where It's Going,
and Why It Matters to You
This is the story of a remarkable business opportunity, one that is open to all and is as simple to grasp as a telephone handset. It's about good old American ingenuity. It's about offering consumers a better deal. It's about people helping people. It's about accomodating and strengthening a family while working for financial achievement. It's about false starts and missteps, too, but in the end the brief history of Excel Communications, Inc., is the ultimate American success story.
If you believe in challenging conventional wisdom, or if you're looking for reassurance that ideas still count in our society, this story is for you. Old assumptions crumble. New ideas emerge. Opportunity abbounds. Think about it: For nearly a century, there was only one phone company, and almost everyone—scholars, economists, politicians, business executives, and consumers—just assumed that was the way it had to be. Then in the early 1980's the breakup of the AT&T monopoly opened an opportunity for a young entrepreneur to realize his dream.
That dream is Excel. In less than ten years, Kenny Troutt and his partners have grown their dream into a $2 billion corporation. They've created an opportunity for a million people to start their own home-based businesses, ones that allow them to spend more time with their families. Many have acchieved satisfying degrees of financial independence and security. Some have become wealthy.
Virtually all credit Excel with bringing their families closer together and giving them the financial security they never thought possible.
The dream is open to you. Find out more about it inside
The Excel Phenomenon.
Customer Reviews:
Definitely a title to keep on your "personal success" library shelves..........2007-02-18
The Excel Phenomenon certainly has had its detractors. Doubtless, there are handfuls of people out there in Bookland who have been through the rigours of "Excel U" but not fared nearly as well with the product and the "system" as some of the prominent personalities featured in this book, proud of them as we are. Lookit, I'm slightly skeptical about this read, ok? The author makes a clearcut attempt to distance himself from CEO Kenny Troutt and the people at the top of the Excel Communications foodchain, yet (and for this, folks, you'll have to give it a solid concerted read) he waxes majorly poetic on the merits of the company, how it functions, the nitties-gritties 'n all, and this book appeared to me to basically be a primer on all things Excel-like. A posterior-smoocher.
I'm not saying that I minded it. I'm also not saying that it's unacceptable. It's just that if an author's going to state his bona fides, and then masquerade his copy as shilling for the principals of the company he writes about, I'd have to say that mightily stretches the bounds of belief just a wee too much for this reviewer's taste. Just be forthcoming. If you're going to boink me, then boink me properly is where I'm going with this.
Okay, so enough about the demerits of this book. On the positive side of the ledger, I enjoyed the "slice of life" portraits of the people whose lives were changed by Excel. It's heartwarming to read about real people going through real economic day-to-day crow. This isn't a rags to riches sort of thing. Some of the people described within these pages toiled at Excel for a long time and didn't necessarily see a profit return for, like, well...ages! It took them YEARS to build up a steady business and clientele, and in the meantime, like the rest of the working-stiff population, they had to take on menial jobs to make ends meet. Many of these profiles described were two-child families, with spouses who **both** worked. To read about how they ultimately managed to triumph and make it boldly back to the black is quite a remarkable achievement.
Will this encourage other people to emulate their successes? Hard to say. I recommend--at the very least--reading this book in order to, at first, glean some of the feel-good cream which will get you thinking differently about your lifestyle. I'd reckon to say that many of the people who get through Robinson's book will be jazzed up enough to want to go out and make a mega-change in their lives, and what's more, the bulk of the people who are reading this are typically in a "I wanna change my life mode." (Sure, there are people just reading it for reading its own sake...though not too many of those, I doubt). I hazard to recommend any one given book at the "silver bullet" solution as a source of motivation for readers. THE EXCEL PHENOMENON is precisely the same. Don't look to it as a "Bible" of sorts to glean all possible inspirations for the direction you think your life should be going. DO, however, look to it as that, perhaps, **final** book you're going to read that will propel you once and for all on that path through life which will ensure that you've got a steady stream of income which will prevent the need to have to alternately scrounge around for it constantly in dead-end jobs, working for "da Man," or possibly even getting stuck in an earn-spend lifer trap that nets you little in the way of positive net worth.
Robinson, through the device of Kenny Troutt and his cronies' Excel, shows you at the very least that a way certainly **does** exist in order to remove yourself from this dead-end matrix of taking out of your pocket what you toil and labour hours to earn.
The book's written in a no-nonsense style, easy to read, and I found myself liberally jumping between sections as a way to spice up the read. That's my indicator of a good piece of non-fiction, I'll have you know.
What the author is basically positing here, I believe, is that business phenomena like the "Excel phenomenon" are going to become increasingly more important in the early 21st-century. With the explosion of telecommunications products, and as more and more data gets pumped down that line, like TV and other wireless services, there will be many more people getting rich off of these products.
I didn't award this book the top ranking, only because I think that the author wasn't entirely forthcoming about his connection to the relevant Excel brass. It's hard to believe with something this seemingly rah-rah that there wasn't some kind of clever artifice and assorted payola in the mix here. Sorry, but just my $0.02.
Otherwise, it was a rather spirited read.
--ADM in Prague
A political communicator as the author.......2005-01-17
Many of the reviews seemed to consider more the network marketing aka MLM in general than the book itself. I think that the Excel Communications was a very well timed and well implemented business idea that worked.
Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about this book. Especially the first half of the book is painful rhetoric about the glory of Excel Communications. Somehow I had a feeling that the author was a professional writer, maybe a journalist. I could not believe that any journalist would write as one-sighted text as this book, and I checked the background of the author: a veteran speech-writer and political communicator. Well, that explained a lot.
The book repeats over and over the same positive claims of working for Excel: Be your own boss, be with your family, and with the hypocrisy of a Miss World candidate the story that although I make a lot of money, the most important for me is that I can help the others to succeed as well.
When you open the book on an arbitrary page, you get the feeling that the book includes facts as there are so many numbers and dollar signs. By reading the text, the reader notices that 95% of the facts are irrelevant like how much the person earned before joining Excel or how much one can gain by saving 20 years with 8% interest rate. The latter fact got 3 pages in 225-page book. The other facts were mainly related to the environment or society, not to Excel. The book had also some relevant facts like how many percentage of the Excel representatives succeed or fail, but those facts have to be dug out from a lot of noise around them, and in those cases the facts are not statistical from the Excel book-keeping but individual opinions.
What I was missing are the facts:
How much of the Excel income come from the telecom services and how much of it comes from training and other MLM supporting services.
How many customers Excel has compared to the representatives.
How Excel is sharing the customer revenue between the person who sold the service, the person who recruited that sales person and Excel.
How a typical representative income stream is composed, how much comes from getting customers, how much customer calls, how much recruiting others, how much from recruited persons recruiting new ones, and how much of training and managerial tasks.
21 years old and almost financially free with Excel.......2004-01-19
This was a recap of the history of Excel. If growing to 1 Billion in sales faster than any company in history doesn't impress you maybe this will. I think that most people who bad mouth this book or MLM in general have failed themselves. Maybe only a small percentage of people find financial independence in MLM, but that's the same deal with any new venture. Those that fail have quit, because the only way to fail in Excel is to quit. If your new Micky D's franchise fails, does that mean that Micky D's doesn't work. I think the problem is, YOU DON'T WORK. People by nature hate blaming themselves. I am 21, a university student and well on my way to never working again for the rest of my life. If you want to learn how, i'll tell you my big secret, I WORK!
An Excel Rep, Biased but Financially Free.......2004-01-19
This book was obviously written to not only to give a historical view of the company but to promote it to others. Excel and network marketing are amazing in the way they give motivated people the opportunity to have money and time freedom. I am a 21 year old college student and i am well on my way to never working a real job again. Those who are nay sayers or bad mouth this company or MLM as a whole are the ones who have failed. They'll be the same ones after they open a million dollar franchise who fail and tell you franchising doesn't work. I've got news for you, YOU DIDN'T WORK! MAYBE THE FACT THAT YOU CAN'T BLAME YOURSELF IS THE REASON FOR YOUR FAILURE!
Whether its Excel or another MLM company, get in now and never quit.
Good read for those interested in NM........2002-12-20
This is a good book for anyone interested in learning more
about NM and how Excel has grown into a global communications
company. For those that say the company "keeps your investment",
you get your "investment" back if you actually work. The problem
is most folks that join a NM company, they expect to get paid
for doing nothing. This is a business! And it's yours...you
reap the rewards for what you put into it. And for those that
say Excel products are over priced,etc, not true. They are
competitively priced with the larger carriers. Check it out
yourself. Yes, you can find bargains, but that's true with
anything you buy/use. The one review that mentioned market
saturation? Excel is a 2Billion company on what? A 2% share
of the 100B long distance industry. And now there's local! Anyone that bashes this book obviously
has failed at NM (maybe with Excel), but I bet they never put
forth any effort to really build a business.
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The Failure of Antitrust and Regulation to Establish Competition (AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation)
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From beacon fire to radio (Masters of space): The story of long-distance communication,
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Superficial.......2006-10-06
I surprisingly agree with the other reviews. I would not agree that this is a good law school text book. The text - for a legal scholarly work - is largely devoid of citations. Thus the book as a secondary source recounts history almost as hearsay without an ability to get to the primary history. In addition, the subject matter is superficial and insufficiently developed. The Kingsbury Commitment, a huge moment in telecommunications history, is given one paragraph. There is little new here that is not in other books. There is content that is missing. The author discusses Computer I and Computer II, but not Computer III even though that proceeding took place well before the publication of this book.
One Star is Generous........1999-06-23
The "Book" was a let-down. It failed to satisfy even my most basic expectations for this subject matter.
Comprehhensive text on telecommunications regulations.......1999-06-22
Considering that this textbook was intended primarily for law school students, it is equally applicable to telecommunications graduate programs. The material presented is both interesting and helpful in understanding the law and regulation of telecommunications carriers.
Tediously written and presented; lacks cohesion.......1999-03-14
Unfortunately what seemed to be a promising resource in a highly dynamic and important field such as telecommunications turned out to be a huge disappointment. The authors present their subject in dense, hard to follow language that does little to make the field either accessible to novices or useful to practioners.
On the bright side, it makes for a nice door stop!
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Smoke signals, the telegraph, satellites, and the Internet are a few of the ways humans have sent messages over long distances. As long-distance communication methods increased in complexity over the years, the speed of delivery and distance traveled usually increased as well.
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This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on May 1, 1991. The length of the article is 858 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The key to a web site’s success is its ability to entice surfers to stop at that site, absorb what it offers, and return at a later date. This guide provides tools such as templates, checklists, and forms as well as proven techniques such as using e-mail, links, and online advertising to increase the number of initial users and repeat visitors to the web site. This resource will prove invaluable to entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporate marketing managers, and consultants seeking the skills needed to make a web site successful. This replaces 188506845X
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useless book.......2007-07-14
this book is useless. It talks about everything which is outdated and nothing it talks about is detailed. It's like a sales person talking about tech stuff.
You're in the wrong place.......2007-02-03
I assume you're here, reading this review because you are looking for ways to promote your website, and the title of this book hit that mark for you.
Assuming this to be true, do yourself a favor. Go over to Amazon's listing for "How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money" by Bruce C. Brown. It is a million times the book this one is, and the reviews that are already in place there will more than convince you.
Nice Pin Point ...........2007-01-10
THis is a very easy to read book, with some examples, some times i wish those were more detailed but they are good... it PIN POINT the clue points (sorry for so many points ) to have more traffic in your page and to correct most of the mistakes made in the desing stage. Bring this idea to my mind... "Web Designers are not the best web Traffic designers for a page " so read this book is a good starting poing....
The info more 2001 than 2006.......2007-01-09
Most of the text are based on how the internetcommunity looked in the beginning of 2000 or 2001. Quite a lot of the facts are actually false today and makes you more harm than good.
I would definitely not recommend this other than a reference "how companies thought of Internet in the beginning of 2001".
The book is too generic. .......2006-03-17
This book has the look, the feel and the content of being designed for taking advantage of absolute beginners in Internet Marketing.
Since beginners do not have much knowledge about the subject, they will not be able to protect themselves from a wasteful expense when purchasing this book.
Why is this book not worth the money? Because if it were a textbook on cooking, it would describe all the ingredients, but not say anything about correct proportions, the order of cooking, the temperature and the time.
One will not become an Internet Marketing Chef by reading this book.
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