Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your Way Its All Inside (Hardcover)

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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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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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (April 18, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470174366
• ISBN-13: 978-0470174364
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #208,190 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read. Think. Act. NOW, April 7, 2008

By	Tara Kachaturoff "Business Consultant | Tel... (Birmingham, MI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the first, September 11, 2008

By	Steven Rader "djsteve4444" (Franklin, WI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Sequel, April 20, 2008

By	Dave Carpenter "Peak Performance Scholar" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

Michael Port's first book, Book Yourself Solid, was a terrific book. His latest is even better.

There is so much to like about this book. It is refreshing to see an author stretch himself by writing a sequel that is a real extension to the predecessor. So many authors churn out books regurgitating that they have previously said. This book truly goes "beyond" his earlier book. Kudos, Michael Port, for being a true sequel writer.

A second strength is the very thoughtful order in which this new material is presented. The table of contents alone has great value as a checklist for business success. And, the case studies placed at the end to reinforce the learning points presented in the book was a great idea.

A third strength is the beautiful balance between sound business advice and worthwhile personal advice. As one that so believes the quality of one's business is a reflection of the quality of one's life, the author is to be congratulated for bridging the gap between business and personal attitude.

A fourth strength is the quality of the advice offered. Having spent 25+ years as a business consultant, I am frequently appalled at the quality of advice given in books aimed at the same market as this one. I found not one point that I would debate in the 200 pages. Not a single one.

I could go on and on. But, suffice it to say that I strongly recommend this book as a foundational philosophy for any entrepreneur, as well as for professionals in the large professional service organizations (e.g., law firms, accounting firms, etc.). Although the book was seemingly not targeted for the latter group, I believe that professionals in large firms could benefit by adopting Port's philosophies.