false 73002 0 0 126983 0471783935 9780471783930 16 <![CDATA[Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171925461m/126983.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126983.Book_Yourself_Solid_The_Fastest_Easiest_and_Most_Reliable_System_for_Getting_More_Clients_Than_You_Can_Handle_Even_if_You_Hate_Marketing_and_Selling 4.09 66 Book Yourself Solid-now in paperback-is a complete instructional guide for startingn and growing a successful service business. It gives you simple, yet effective techniques for creating relentless demand and endless leads. It includes more than 200 proven marketing strategies for attracting new clients, earning more referrals, and building profitable, long-lasting professional relationships. If you want to take your service business to the next level, start here and Book Yourself Solid.]]> 73002 3.86 100 24 2248642 0470174366 9780470174364 1 <![CDATA[Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your WayIts All Inside]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2248642.Beyond_Booked_Solid_Your_Business_Your_Life_Your_WayIts_All_Inside 3.91 11 Beyond Booked Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing & Selling (Wiley, 2006; 21,162 sold) has been well received. So well received and needed, that it shows every sign of becoming an evergreen marketing title for professional service providers and small business owners who say they hate marketing and selling but absolutely need more clients. But the author, Michael Port has created a problem for them: they are now booked solid and they have more clients than they can handle. 

  In his second book, Beyond Booked Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Building an Even Bigger, Better Business While Working Less, Michael Port will effectively and efficiently solve this pervasive problem. Beyond Booked Solid is a complete and easy-to-follow roadmap for continuing to grow a service business by getting “un-booked solid” and serves as an insurance policy that enables the reader to approach their business from a new and inspired perspective of making more money while working less. Beyond Booked Solid provides hundreds of tips, strategies, techniques, and resources that seamlessly help the reader integrate the intellectual and philosophical concepts into a plan of action that can be implemented in sequential steps. Furthermore, as with the first book, Beyond Booked Solid will offer readers a complimentary comprehensive downloadable companion workbook from BookYourselfSolid.com.

]]> 73002 3.86 100 24 5115054 0470432373 9780470432372 4 <![CDATA[The Think Big Manifesto]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255805789m/5115054.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5115054.The_Think_Big_Manifesto 2.82 11 The Think Big Manifesto is a practical roadmap of how we can stop squandering our potential and learn how to break out of our mental boxes and think on a much bigger scale. Don’t just aspire to move up the corporate ladder, aim to be CEO. The core of the book will teach you the “Ten Principles” necessary for thinking big. Once you learn these principles you can use them to transform your professional and personal, day-to-day, life.  Practical issues that will be covered:

•       Work: Career Path Obstacles created/exacerbated by small thinking; Innovation curbed by small thinking; Teamwork destroyed; Strategy clouded; Tactics muddled; etc.

•       Relationships: How small thinking leads to competition and division, to lack of generosity, empathy, vulnerability, the things that form strong bonds and create true cooperation and collaboration.

•       Social World: How small thinking locks us into a divorce between our private and public worlds, the divorce of doing well in business and doing well for the common good.

•       Personal Growth: How small thinking keeps us from embracing and developing our true passions, and the alienation and lack of fulfillment that results.

Stop thinking small. It's time to think big, achieve big, and realize your full potential.

]]> 73002 3.86 100 24 2205186 0470281901 9780470281901 1 <![CDATA[Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255759349m/2205186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2205186.Book_Yourself_Solid_The_Fastest_Easiest_and_Most_Reliable_System_for_Getting_More_Clients_Than_You_Can_Handle_Even_if_You_Hate_Marketing_and_Selling 3.57 7 Book Yourself Solid-now in paperback-is a complete instructional guide for startingn and growing a successful service business. It gives you simple, yet effective techniques for creating relentless demand and endless leads. It includes more than 200 proven marketing strategies for attracting new clients, earning more referrals, and building profitable, long-lasting professional relationships. If you want to take your service business to the next level, start here and Book Yourself Solid.]]> 73002 3.86 100 24 4689919 0470237902 9780470237908 2 <![CDATA[The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4689919.The_Contrarian_Effect_Why_It_Pays_Big_to_Take_Typical_Sales_Advice_and_Do_the_Opposite 3.67 3 The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite. Find an entirely sound approach to building better client relationships and closing more sales by doing the exact opposite that conventional sales advice dictates. Re-examine the most well-worn sales tactics in the business and discover specific and actionable strategies and principles that will help you close more sales today.]]> 73002 3.86 100 24 781668 3.75 4 3 6492935 0 <![CDATA[The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6492935-the-think-big-manifesto 3.00 2 Think Bigger. About Who You Are. And What You Offer the World.

Stand for something before someone stands on you. Revolt against the play-it-safe, don't disturb the peace, cynical and silenced society that, more often than not, buries big thoughts.

Michael Port, bestselling author and creator of ThinkBigRevolution.com, knows it's not always easy to think big. But big thinking must happen now; today, tomorrow, and forevermore.

At this very moment, you are the change you want to see in the world—should you choose to accept personal responsibility. Devour every word of The Think Big Manifesto. It is the handbook to your personal revolution.

You are more than you know. And you can do more with less than you think...

<ul><li>Unhook from the guru track <li>

Learn how to be comfortable with discomfort <li>

Join people doing powerful things <li>

Be one of the big thinkers that others rave about

This book, and life, is not a conceptual, theoretical experiment in how to do big things. No, this is just what you need if you're on, or want to be on, the path to doing big things and are willing to invest in your future.

Join or incite a worldwide revolution that inspires others to follow. All it takes is one big thought and the revolution is unleashed. One thought, one person at a time, quickly followed by another—soon big thinking becomes the norm. Your big thoughts enable you to achieve greatness, be remarkable, and create a better world.

Are you a member of the Think Big Revolution? If so, this is your Manifesto.

]]> 73002 3.86 100 24 2117157 3.67 3 1 7143679 1596592133 9781596592131 0 <![CDATA[Beyond Booked Solid]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7143679-beyond-booked-solid 0.0 0 73002 3.86 100 24 6962137 159659280X 9781596592803 0 <![CDATA[The Think Big Manifesto]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255805809m/6962137.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6962137-the-think-big-manifesto 0.0 0
It has become far too common that people never reach their full potential, their biggest limiting factor being the belief that they can only achieve small success. The Think Big Manifesto is a practical roadmap of how we can stop squandering such potential and instead learn how to break out of our mental boxes and think on a much bigger scale. Don't just aspire to move up the corporate ladder, aim to be CEO.

The core of the audio book will teach listeners the "Ten Principles" necessary for thinking big. Once they learn these principles they can use them to transform their professional and personal, day-to-day, life. Practical issues that will be covered include:


<UL type=disc>
<LI .5in? list tab-stops: level1 l0 mso-list: 0pt; 0in MARGIN: lfo2;>Work: Career Path Obstacles created/exacerbated by small thinking; Innovation curbed by small thinking; Teamwork destroyed; Strategy clouded; Tactics muddled; etc.
<LI .5in? list tab-stops: level1 l0 mso-list: 0pt; 0in MARGIN: lfo2;>Relationships: How small thinking leads to competition and division, to lack of generosity, empathy, vulnerability, the things that form strong bonds and create true cooperation and collaboration.
<LI .5in? list tab-stops: level1 l0 mso-list: 0pt; 0in MARGIN: lfo2;>Social World: How small thinking locks us into a divorce between our private and public worlds, the divorce of doing well in business and doing well for the common good.
<LI .5in? list tab-stops: level1 l0 mso-list: 0pt; 0in MARGIN: lfo2;>Personal Growth: How small thinking keeps us from embracing and developing our true passions, and the alienation and lack of fulfillment that results.</LI></UL>
THINKING BIG is the practical solution to all of these very basic human frustrations.]]> 73002 3.86 100 24 6614600 1596591358 9781596591356 0 <![CDATA[Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6614600-book-yourself-solid 0.0 0 73002 3.86 100 24 6564368 0 <![CDATA[Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6564368-book-yourself-solid 0.0 0 Book Yourself Solid-now in paperback-is a complete instructional guide for startingn and growing a successful service business. It gives you simple, yet effective techniques for creating relentless demand and endless leads. It includes more than 200 proven marketing strategies for attracting new clients, earning more referrals, and building profitable, long-lasting professional relationships. If you want to take your service business to the next level, start here and Book Yourself Solid.]]> 73002 3.86 100 24