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“If I had to identify the biggest cause of marital unhappiness, I’d say it’s the set of expectations we have about marriage in the first place,” explains mental health and marriage counselor Lee Schnebly. Breezier than most how-to manuals, Being Happy Being Married: A Guide to Building a Better Relationship encourages readers to understand that making a good marriage requires hard work and that achieving a perfect marriage may not be possible. Among her recommendations is that both partners set goals and, based on an understanding of their partner’s desires, negotiate priorities.

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For the married or soon-to-be-married couple-simple, effective techniques to strengthen the relationship.

Keeping a realistic view of ourselves, our partners, and our relationships is the key to creating a marriage that is happy, healthy, and dynamic. Because we all bring generally unrealistic hopes and beliefs into our relationships, this is always easier said than done. Being Happy Being Married helps readers recognize the flaws in their expectations of marriage and of each other. Lee Schnebly helps readers use this knowledge as the first step toward improving communication with our partners, getting our needs met, and solving everyday marital problems.

With real-life, often humorous examples, Lee Schnebly provides a balance of professional and personal advice on all the issues that commonly cause couples to clash, from differing sexual needs to contrasting styles of child-rearing. In addition, this experienced marriage counselor has illuminating comments to make about the effect gender differences have on marriages, how we manipulate each other and why it doesn’t work, why it is important to distinguish between wants and needs in a marriage, and more. She has much to say on the subject of marrying for the wrong reasons-and staying married for the right ones.

“We’ve asked hundreds of marketers and thought leaders for the most important thing a marketer can do for a firm. Answer: Bring new techniques for discerning real customer needs. That’s where Customer Visits comes in. This jewel of a book shows you how to make customer visits powerful tools for customer insight. It’s a great read and a powerful resource.” — Ralph A. Oliva, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Business Markets Penn State University “This new edition of Customer Visits is a must-read book for anyone whose firm markets products to other businesses. This is a book I read every few years, just to remind myself what a good execution of a piece of marketing research requires. I always strongly recommend it as a professional purchase to my MBA Marketing Core students. Ed McQuarrie presents a great deal of practical content on how to prepare for, conduct and analyze customer visits – in an enjoyably readable and practical form.” — Abbie Griffin, Royal L. Garff Presidential Chair in Marketing University of Utah This book will interest company representatives and management involved in sales, customer relations, and marketing. It is clearly written and offers an interesting history of the development of the tradition the customer visit. Reference & Research Book News”
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Visits to customers by a cross-functional team of marketers and engineers play an important role in new product development, entry into new markets, and in exploring customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The new edition of this widely used professional resource provides step-by-step instructions for making effective use of this market research technique.Using a wealth of specific examples, Edward F. McQuarrie explains how to set feasible objectives and how to select the right number of the right kind of customers to visit. One of the leading experts in the field, McQuarrie demonstrates how to construct a discussion guide and how to devise good questions, and offers practical advice on how to conduct face-to-face interviews.Extensively updated throughout, this third edition includes three new chapters as well as expanded coverage of the analysis of visit data. It also discusses which industries and product categories are most (and least) suitable to the customer visit technique. The author also covers how the customer visit technique compares to other market research techniques such as focus groups.

Julius is a breath of fresh air in golf instruction. With training of this kind, players can shoot lower scores. — Bob Toski, World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame

Julius is a breath of fresh air in golf instruction. With training of this kind, players can shoot lower scores. –Bob Toski, World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame

Julius’ genius is helping golfers break down the swing parts and then put them together in easy to follow steps. — Lorin Anderson, Managing Editor, Golf Magazine

Julius’ genius is helping golfers break down the swing parts and then put them together in easy to follow steps. –Lorin Anderson, Managing Editor, Golf Magazine

My good friend, and golf?s great friend, Julius Richardson, has a brilliant and simple approach to teaching?solid fundamentals. — Peter Kessler, Broadcaster and Senior Writer, Golf Magazine

My good friend, and golf?s great friend, Julius Richardson, has a brilliant and simple approach to teaching?solid fundamentals. –Peter Kessler, Broadcaster and Senior Writer, Golf Magazine

Better Golf: A Skill Building Approach offers a breakthrough method for acquiring better golf skills. Julius Richardson, the first African American pro to be included in Golf Magazine?s Top 100 Instructors in America, shows you how to get to the core of better scoring with a minimum of wasted effort. Richardson turns the spotlight directly on the learning process itself. He breaks the desirable skills of golf into components and offers intelligently sequenced drills to help you acquire them. Along with fine short game instruction, Richardson teaches Six Key Body Angles that put you in ideal anatomical position for ball striking. Touring pros use these angles with every swing. Through skill building practice, amateurs can start to acquire them, and their shots get better and better.

This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on October 1, 1995. The length of the article is 3337 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.

From the supplier: Topsail Beach, NC, was in good financial condition when it hired a new town manager in 1991. The town manager designed and implemented a modified budget to improve the town’s already solid financial status. He did it by simplifying the budget to enable the board of commissioners to make better-informed decisions, reformatting the budget to turn it into a work plan for the fiscal year, encouraging the board to conduct program-based review instead of line-item review and combining financial forecasting, capital programming and the annual budget process.

Citation Details
Title: Building a better budget through trust and communication. (Topsail Beach, North Carolina)
Author: Eric J. Peterson
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1995
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v11 Issue: n5 Page: p17(5)

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Book helps home buyers avoid some common problems. — Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 20, 2004

Ferguson delivers schooled advice on things to look for when buying a home, and things to avoid when remodeling. — Seattle, WA Times/PI November 28, 2004

He addresses both materials and function, which can be very helpful for people window-shopping before they build or remodel. — BackHome Magazine Jan/Feb 2005

Know what you’re buying into. Book helps prospective buyers find design flaws when house-hunting. — Altoona, PA Mirror, November 13, 2004

The point of his book “is to get you to notice flaws before you make a commitment.” — Biloxi, MS The Sun Herald, November 20, 2004

Better Houses, Better Living helps home owners and home buyers by explaining the basics of home design and building from a user’s perspective. Ferguson clearly and succinctly details what makes a house “user-friendly” and a better place to live by focusing on practicality instead of just feeling and looks. The book includes over 500 graphics including 462 photographs that clearly show each element that is discussed. There are also 142 Internet Resources where people can go for more information. A referenced website has hot-links to these Internet Resource listings making them easier to access. And there are 8 Supplements which will be a real bonus to the reader, offering scads of additional information.

Learn to appreciate yourself with these ten simple solutions for building self-esteem. These easy-to-grasp tips for fostering a positive sense of self distill and add to many of the best, most effective techniques from the author Glenn Schiraldi’s successful Self-Esteem Workbook. They draw on techniques from Eastern and Western traditions: mindfulness practice, thought-watching, strengths appreciation, and more. With the simple solutions in this book and a little practice, you can discover what a wonderful and valuable person you really are.

10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem is a very interesting and rewarding book! Clearly and warmly written, Schiraldi’s book is filled with valuable and varied possibilities for enhancing self-esteem and exploring the wonder and mystery of this human life. –Jeffrey Brantley, MD, founder and director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at the Duke University Center for Integrative Medicine, author of Calming Your Anxious Mind, and coauthor of The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook and Five Good Minutes

Here is a practical program that will help you conquer nagging self-doubt, ask for what you want, and bounce back from setbacks and criticism.