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Praise for: Beyond Booked Solid

"If you want a four-hour work week, this book is required reading. Michael has automating business down to a science." - 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

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8982 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-18
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

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.

From the Back Cover
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

About the Author

Michael Port is the author of Book Yourself Solid. He's been called a "marketing guru" by the Wall Street Journal and is a renowned public speaker. A slightly irreverent, sometimes funny, knowledgeable, compassionate, and passionate performer, Michael hits his mark every time and leaves his audiences, readers, and clients a little smarter, much more alive, and thinking a heck of a lot bigger about who they are and what they offer the world. See videos and read his blog at MichaelPort.com.

Customer Reviews

Beyond Booked Solid
M Port fills in the spaces from his first book "Book Yourself Solid" while adding numerous new comments and suggestions that really add value to the experience.

Although "Beyond Booked Solid" can be a stand-alone read, I suggest that to get the most from the experience you read both books.

Both books are part of my collection of business books that I refer to regularly.

A Book Within a Book
Even though I don't have a copy of "Book Yourself Solid" I followed my intuition and decided to purchase "Beyond Booked Solid" about 10 days ago and so glad I did. One reason for my thinking was if I found some of your suggestions helpful in "Beyond Booked Solid," it would probably free me more to become booked solid.

What I want to pass on is:
1. I did buy your book and it's loaded with great suggestions and questions to help me (and other readers) take the actions I need to achieve better results and think bigger, without a doubt. I'm really enjoying and finding value from your content.
2. I love the workbook. It's very useful and a way to help me and other readers implement the ideas you present in a useful, reader-friendly format.
3. Here's the kicker Michael that you made this user-friendly workbook available to the reader for free and as an instant download. Michael this free workbook is truly a gift and tremendous added value to those who purchase your book. Thank you! It was such a pleasant surprise and I'm getting so much more from your book as a result of this workbook. This really was an unexpected gift, I had no idea about it when I purchased your book, only as I started to read through it.

Thanks for a great book.

Perfect for taking my business to the next level
First, let me just say that I've implemented the information in Book Yourself Solid - Michael's first book - into my business over the past six months, and I'm still doing so everyday. The results have been phenomenal. So much so, that we're now much more selective with the types of clients we're working with and the type of work we're doing. That sort of focus and deliberateness just wasn't present in our business before discovering Michael's book and his coaching sessions.

Of course, I was wondering what to do as I started to get more work than I could handle. "Beyond Booked Solid" provides the answers. Continuing with the lessons from his first book, Michael teaches you in a well-written and easily accessible way how to build an architecture for your business and implement systems that truly do free you to think much bigger about your business. I can actually see - based on the work I'm doing from the exercises in the book - that it's OK to take me out of the equation of the day-to-day operations so that I can focus on the other aspects of my life that are important to me - most notably spending time with my wife and kids and doing the sort of things I love to do. In this day and age, there really is no excuse for an entrepreneur to spend 12 hours a day slaving away on jobs that others can do better and more efficiently. Michael teaches you to identify those areas, develop systems to handle those and encourages you to get a life.

In fact, I'm finding that while Booked Yourself Solid was sort of a nuts and bolts to marketing and growing your business in your own unique way, Beyond Booked Solid presents a more holistic approach to business as it relates to your life and quality of living. Now that you've got the thriving business, this book shows you how to create the systems and practices to make your entrepreneurial endeavor ever more viable and valuable while at the same time crafting the life you've always wanted.

I'd highly recommend both books.