Book Yourself Solid, 2nd Edition: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling

A must read

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If you are starting a business, this book will help you generate good loyal customers.

The book gives new fresh ideas to accelerate the promotion of new professional activity. Most of the points are well known, but usually not applied in this order. It is clearly American way to do business. For Spanish marketing style it is a little bit too pushy.
On the other hand the book is too much oriented to service area to offer services and does not give much idea with new, not yet known, products.

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The audiobook allows to listen while walking, for fully occupied person the only time to dedicate to books.

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It will be appreciated if the next version of the book helps with new product positioning on market.

Michael Port is teaching from experience of someone who has actually booked himself solid. He gives real techniques and tools that work today for you to promote your business, brand, product, or service and get speaking engagements. He offers an excellent unique approach to find partners who can help promote your business.

His authentic approach is very refreshing, appealing and entertaining and is worth many times the price. As an entrepreneur i highly recommend this book to other entrepreneurs, small business owners and sales and marketing professionals.

That he reads the book himself and didn't hire a book reader

An animated look into his coaching experiences that gives the connecting moments of "this can be me".

Book Yourself Solid had the balance of resourceful content as well as laughter. Some of the beneficial resources that have worked great for me are the Book Yourself Solid Direct Outreach and Web Strategies. Although I am familiar with Face book and Twitter Michael Port shares a few additional twist to enhance your current profile.

I found the audio version to the perfect way to turn my car into a university on wheels.

I have done courses that cover the topics in this book, but they seem to jump too quickly into marketing instead of doing the ground work first.

Developing your foundation was the most valuable part of the audiobook to me. Recognising who I am and what I have to offer, sets up any business person perfectly from the get-go.

I couldn't wait to get back into my car to drive to work, just to listen in to Michael again.

This is my favorite book on self development so far. Awesome.

This is an excellent read. If you want a book on this subject that is truly helpful, this is it. If you don't want to work at booking yourself solid--if you want a quick fix--you won't find it here. You'll have to change the way you work if you want this system to work for you. And you will have to take your time and WORK to build real relationships for this system to work for you. But, if you work it, it will work. Port shows you how in a smart, funny, down-to-earth, not too preachy way and provides you all of the tools and resources you need to succeed without your having to spend a ton of money to get access. Does he offer other services in his book? Yes. But you'll WANT to buy from this man who adds so much value to your business life in this book. Be prepared to be amazed in a world of the mediocre and unamazing business information.

I was getting pretty ticked off by the first chapter - it seemed like it was starting off with too much praise and flattery to me the reader and not enough substance. I was about to turn it off in disgust but decided to listen to a full hour before deciding. I'm glad I did - once he gets past the "you're wonderful and this book will get you the success you deserve" (I hate books like that because that type of flattery usually is an attempt to hide a complete lack of substance) he actually starts giving lots of good advice on referral marketing. Very helpful, I'm implementing a lot of his ideas and highly recommend the book to any small business person looking to grow.

I would recommend this book to fellow business owners in the service industries. There are good ideas about really breaking down why you do what you do, and who you should be doing it for. Then some strategies for taking action on these themes.

The book does not place as much of an emphasis on using technology and social media, which are some of the most cost-effective ways of building a business personality.

Overall, though, not a bad read, and you can knock it out in a few days. Worth a credit.

Maybe not, just because I wanted to run out and buy the hard copy or take a course. I had tried to start up a business or two before and now I know what I could have done to make it successful.

As said, if you really want to book yourself solid this is the right book for you. It has endless ideas. I've only used parts and pieces in the past week but the phone is ringing and booking new clients each week.

My friends are impressed at the results also. Want to listen to every suggested book, and checkout all the links soon. I will be booked solid this year! I can see it! ~bobi, An Orderly Home and Office.

So far this book cannot be compared to others -- it is remarkable.

Good scenes and narration throughout the chapters.

Yes there has been an extreme reaction. I know that I have invested wisely because of the immediate results.

I wish I had heard this book 20 or 30 years ago ;) Would have saved me a lifetime of frustration. For those of you that are sick of being micro-managed or have bosses that are not supporting you and have thought of starting your own business? Read this book!!!!

Book Yourself Solid contains useful information for individuals and small businesses creating a marketing and sales plan. What pleased me was the organization, strategic mindset, and point by point descriptions. Each line of reasoning fits perfectly into a category, which in turn fits into the overall strategy and goals. The information was also of such breadth and depth that numerous situations and techniques were described, with a few given a great detail of coverage.