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Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your Way--It's All Inside [Hardcover]

Michael Port (Author)
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April 18, 2008
In Beyond Booked Solid, Michael Port returns with new tactics for growing your business even bigger. Port's Book Yourself Solid was a huge hit among professional service providers and small business owners who learned to master the art of attracting clients and keeping them happy. In this book, he helps your business keep growing by taking the next step, beyond booked solid. That means maximizing your business while working less and earning more. This is the ultimate guide for your growing business.

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From the Inside Flap

Michael Port's Book Yourself Solid was a huge hit among professional service providers and small business owners. With that book, thousands mastered the art of attracting tons of new clients and keeping them happy. But the tactics and strategies Port introduced in Book Yourself Solid worked too well! Today, many readers simply have more clients than they can handle.

But, with every new success comes a new challenge. Port solves this problem with a revolutionary plan for gracefully upping your business to the next stage of success—Beyond Booked Solid. That means growing and expanding your business from a small operation that takes all your time and energy just to stay afloat to a bigger, better business that pays you more while you work less.

You've worked so hard to build your business and earn the trust of your clients that you probably can't imagine letting go. But you can't truly grow your business if you're doing all the work yourself. How do you do it? Here you'll find innovative strategies for tweaking, designing, and arranging your business in ways that allow you to relax and work less while the business grows reliably and automatically.

If you're booked solid now, or on your way, here's how you can enter a new realm of consistent, predictable growth and profit. Inside, you'll discover the four criteria necessary for building a business that goes beyond booked solid—profitability, scalability, excellence, and leverage—and exactly how to develop those criteria. In addition, Beyond Booked Solid will show you how to:

  • Innovate for continuous growth with less work

  • Cultivate the right attitude for continued success

  • Double, triple, or even quadruple your sales

  • Find sources of easy passive and leveraged income

  • Systematize the business so it doesn't need you every day

  • Delegate administrative dirty work to others

  • Design your business so that it serves your ultimate lifestyle

Packed with fresh tips, strategies, techniques, and resources, this one-of-a-kind business guide lets you make the transition to the next stage of business development and growth. For professional service providers and small business owners, there's nothing like the feeling that comes with being booked solid. Now, you can take the next step to long-term prosperity with Beyond Booked Solid.

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Praise for: Beyond Booked Solid

"If you want a four-hour work week, this book is required reading."—TIMOTHY FERRISS, bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek

"If you liked The E-Myth, you'll love Beyond Booked Solid. Port's new book is required reading for all entrepreneurs."
—Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth

"Many business advice books are like certain kinds of Chinese food—you read them and an hour later you're hungry again. By contrast, Beyond Booked Solid is like soul food. You read it, you come back for seconds, and finish it satisfied and happy, looking forward to the day when Michael Port writes his next book."
—Ben Dattner, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Organizational Psychology, New York University

"In Beyond Booked Solid, Port offers you an opportunity to capitalize on one of the most underappreciated assets in business—leverage. And he shows you how to do it with authenticity."
—Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling coauthor of Never Eat Alone

"Michael Port has bridged the gap between professional and personal success. His book generously shares tips and techniques that will help you manage a successful life, much more difficult than it sounds. This is the perfect complement to Book Yourself Solid. If you wish you had more time and happiness in your business life, this book will make it come true."
—Tim Sanders, author of Love Is the Killer App

"Michael Port doesn't just talk about this stuff. He lives it!"
—Seth Godin, author of Meatball Sundae

"If you want bigger revenues and profits, then Beyond Booked Solid is the book to read when you're tired of thinking small. It's a masterpiece because you will never think about your business (or your life) in the same way again. I highly recommend it for those who want to understand how to go from doing it all themselves to running a highly successful enterprise with no limit on what is possible."
—Dr. Tony Alessandra, coauthor of The Platinum Rule

"Beyond Booked Solid takes you beyond perspiration to inspiration. It is an innovative guide to the power of leverage; the kind of leverage that will produce amazing results while providing you with more time for your life outside of work. Buy this book if you want to leave a financial and a personal legacy."
—Steve Lundin, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Fish!

"Whether you are just starting out in your business or you're already booked solid, Beyond Booked Solid offers the tools and the inspiration to significantly grow your business and maintain work-life balance. If you want to learn tried-and-true innovations that will catapult your business to the next level, turn the page."
—Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO, 1-800-Got-Junk?

"The ideas in Beyond Booked Solid show you how to create a sustainable, profitable business and live the life you want. Perhaps even more important, you develop a keen sense of mastery and self-actualization—showing yourself that you can continuously grow and innovate, and creating a true sense of personal success."
—Larina Kase, PsyD, MBA, business psychologist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Confident Speaker


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 18, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470174366
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470174364
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #404,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Port has been called "an uncommonly honest author" by the Boston Globe and a "marketing guru" by The Wall Street Journal.

He is the author of four bestselling books including Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect, and the New York Times Bestseller, The Think Big Manifesto.

Michael blogs for the Huffington Post and has written monthly columns on sales and marketing for Entrepreneur Magazine and American Express Open Forum, is a regular guest on MSNBC, and receives the highest overall speaker ratings at conferences around the world.

 

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the first, September 11, 2008
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I'm a Michael Port fan. Loved Book Yourself Solid, however this book did little to expand on the concept.

To summarize this book,
~Think positive
~Set goals
~Do what it takes to reach them
~Franchise yourself

I kept his first book, this book I'm selling after reading it.
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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Read. Think. Act. NOW, April 7, 2008
This review is from: Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your Way--It's All Inside (Hardcover)
Beyond Booked Solid is the next step in the journey for entrepreneurs. This isn't your ordinary business book. In fact, it's much more. This work is about getting you to take a step back and really look at what's going on inside of you. It provides you with ideas and concepts that will help you to adopt the mindset you need to create a business that fits with your highest vision, your heart's dream, and your mission in life. Port presents many valuable principles that are necessary to embrace in order to take your business to the next level -- one that's integrated with your values and aspirations and scaled to whatever level you desire.

Michael writes, "What's it all for, all this right attitude, business architecture, and systems? What is your destiny, inside and outside your business? If you serve others, but don't serve your own destiny, things are going to fall apart." No truer words have ever been written. This book will help you to start thinking differently -- in a new direction. He'll present you with business growth models that are going to save you time, money, and energy, and most importantly, allow you to find your freedom while living your bliss. It's more about integration - of your higher self with your business -- your business being the delivery vehicle for fully expressing the former.

Beyond Book Solid will require more than one read. The concepts he presents are many, the ideas are big, and you'll need the time to allow them to sink in and take on a meaning that fits with who you are and what you want to accomplish in the world.

As I turned the last page of the book, I did feel changed. In fact, I sat down and outlined some plans to move my own business in a new, bigger, and bolder direction. This book will get you thinking. It's not as much about the words in the book, the diagrams, and the questions for further exploration. Instead, its about getting you to consider possibilities -- of doing things differently, of re-examining what you're doing, and why, and how. The value of the book is how you apply it to your life and your business. It will get you thinking and from there, it's up to you to put it into action. Read the book, think about it, and go make it happen.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great concepts, light on action steps, December 29, 2008
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I loved Book Yourself Solid and liked how practical it was. This book was still a very valuable read, but some of his terminology could have been used more clearly, and I wish that he's provided better take-aways as to specific actions readers can take right now after reading this book.

I'd recommend this book if you want to think about yourself and your business differently, but if you are in the mood to actually take some step by step actions right now, save this book for when you are in a contemplative or planning phase of your business.
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