Beyond Booked Solid Lib/E: Your Business, Your Life, Your Way - It's All Inside

by Michael Port

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 listeners simply have more clients than they can handle. 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. 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.

Genres: Business

Audio CD

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Sharon Moser Lewis]

I approached Beyond Booked Solid with high expectations, having enjoyed Michael Port’s earlier book, Book Yourself Solid. Unfortunately, I found this follow-up less engaging and not quite what I was looking for. While Booked Solid was a practical guide for building a fully booked business, Beyond Booked Solid shifts focus to scaling and systematizing a business once you've reached that point—a stage I wasn’t ready for or particularly interested in.
To be fair, Beyond Booked Solid is well-written, and Port provides solid advice for readers who want to scale their business while maintaining control and balance. The principles of sustainable growth, vision-driven decision-making, and leveraging systems are undoubtedly helpful for those at the right stage of their entrepreneurial journey. However, for someone hoping for more of the foundational, client-centered strategies found in Booked Solid, this book may not hit the mark.

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Big book of sales secret that really could stop at first chapter.

[Stacy Willoughby · Rating 4 out of 5]

I took a lot of notes while reading this book. More so than usual when reading this type of book. I look forward to implementing several of the ideas that Michael Port explores here.

[Nic Brisbourne · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my kind of book this. None of the concepts or ideas resonated and i couldn't get past the intro. Shame, given it was a present from the author...

[Lori Grant · Rating 4 out of 5]

A should-read book on startups for knowledge workers and aspiring entrepreneurs.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

didn't like it as much as book yourself solid. the part about hobbies and prioritizing is good, but a lot of it just seems scattered and not helpful.