Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants: The Fastest, Easiest, Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle, Even If You - Hardcover

by Michael Port (Author), Matthew Kimberley (Author)

Build your consulting clientele with self-promotion strategies that really work

Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants is a game changing guide to attracting potential business opportunities and turning them into high-paying gigs, for a solid business foundation. This hyper-targeted, step-by-step advice will help you grow your coaching or consulting practice beyond what you previously thought possible. You'll become inspired to put energy behind your self-promotion practices--even if self-promotion isn't really your thing. In any service business, it's essential to connect with the clients who are a perfect fit for you. For consultants, that means making your marketing efforts more effective by understanding your unique brand, pricing your services competitively, and communicating with prospective clients about how you can help them. This book helps you through all of it, with practical tips and strategic insights to ensure that you're never short on the right kind of clients.

Co-authored by Michael Port (mastermind behind the original Book Yourself Solid business techniques) and Matthew Kimberley (successful business consultant), Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants covers the issues unique to the world of coaching. By attracting clients who are in alignment with your vision, you can create a successful business that also helps you achieve your long-term goals.

• Understand your unique value proposition and brand, and learn how to talk about it
• Create a likeable social media presence and a website that brings people in the door
• Learn step-by-step strategies for networking, direct outreach, generating referrals, and more
• Discover how the principles of sales and pricing apply to building your consulting practice

Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants is a handbook that translates into results. Promote more than just your skills by creating an image that will resonate with your ideal clientele--and keep you booked solid.

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Michael Port's Book Yourself Solid system has helped hundreds of thousands of business owners grow their businesses--even when they weren't sales and marketing savvy. This game-changing system makes it fast and easy for service providers to fill their pipelines with qualified leads and turn those leads into paying clients. Now, Port is teaming up with successful business coach Matthew Kimberley to create Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants. This book takes the proven Book Yourself Solid system and applies it to the world of consulting, offering industry-specific action steps and advice for attracting and retaining high-value clients.

Not everyone excels at self-promotion, and many coaches and consultants get in their own way by avoiding or underutilizing this necessary element of business success. This book shows readers that the key to effective self-promotion is in the self--the Book Yourself Solid system is about selling what makes you unique, so you can attract a higher echelon of clientele. The step-by-step instructions inside teach you how to lay a solid business foundation, manage how people view you, and become the go-to person in your field.

Since its debut in 2006, Book Yourself Solid has been one of the most popular marketing approaches in the world for service-based businesses. Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants focuses on how readers can bolster their public image, showcase their ability to solve clients' problems, and inspire trust in potential customers for enhanced success.

Self-promotion is an investment. When you put in the effort to build a reputation that attracts quality clients, you boost your profits and your reputation, which in turn attracts more quality clients. This is the coaching and consulting specific guide to kicking off this cycle of success and maintaining it for the long term.

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PRAISE FOR Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants

"Michael Port delivers a game-changing blueprint for coaches. Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants is packed with actionable strategies that guarantee success."
--MIKE MICHALOWICZ, author of Profit First

"This book is an absolute must-read for coaches."
--AMY LANDINO, author of Good Morning, Good Life

"A must-read for any coach looking to scale their business. Michael Port's insights are invaluable and incredibly practical."
--CHRIS DUCKER, author of Rise of the Youpreneur

"Michael Port's Book Yourself Solid for Coaches and Consultants is like having a business coach in your pocket. It's packed with real-world advice that actually works to get you booking clients left and right. If you're a coach who wants to turn your passion into a profitable business, this book is your new best friend. Prepare to be booked solid--you may soon need to raise your rates!"
--LAURA BELGRAY, copywriting expert and national bestselling author of Tough Titties

"Oh wow. You'll read this book and think Michael Port is living inside your head. Everything you ever wanted to know, ever, about getting coaching clients."
--ASH AMBIRGE, author of The Middle Finger Project

"An incredibly useful guide on building a highly profitable coaching business, from one of the most respected people in the industry."
--TODD HERMAN, author of The Alter Ego Effect

"This is a super useful book from two coaches I love and respect. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy if you want to book yourself solid."
--TAKI MOORE, author of Million Dollar Coach

"I loved this book! So useful and practical and inspiring. If you're a coach or a consultant, read it!"
--SH?? WASMUND, MBE, author of Stop Talking Start Doing