The book “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” (whew that was a mouthful) is finally on sale!

I had the amazing opportunity to apprentice with Michael at the ground-level as a trusted member of his team. When I joined his team, I had three clients. By the time I left, I had experienced the power of Book Yourself Solid personally and had a roster of over 50 clients.

His strategies work! He’s used them himself to build an international coaching and marketing service firm. He’s taught thousands of entrepreneurs to use them in his exclusive intensive Book Yourself Solid Programs. And how he’s ready to share his message with the world.

His techniques are simple – and you need them in your arsenal.

The best way to do that is to read his new book (I know it’s his best work to date – I read the draft copy about a year ago).

It’s called 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.

You can pick it up at Amazon by following this link: http://snipurl.com/BYS_OnAmazon

Book Yourself Solid is amazing. It’s a real system that you can use to book yourself solid–and it’s inspirational. Michael has a breezy, easy style of writing. In fact, you’ll feel like your having an intimate conversation with him throughout the book.

I know the Book Yourself Solid system works. I used it to transform my struggling VA practice to a booming Virtual Partnership business. Get the book now – it will be the best investment you can make for your business.

I stumbled across this book on a blog forum in which I participate.  It looks very interesting – I just ordered my copy.  Will have my personal review once I’ve read it but for the moment, here’s the book description that sold me:

A manifesto for women on how to overcome fear and achieve their dreams, from Arianna Huffington, a woman who embodies fearlessness–bestselling author, politician, mother, Web entrepreneur, and one of the most powerful women in America.

Women confront fear every day: fear for their children, fear of appearing foolish, of being assertive, of looking fat, of getting sick, of going broke, of losing love.  Enter Arianna Huffington, with timely and powerful advice on how to be bold.  Arianna is fearless, but not by nature; she’s had to learn and practice all her life.

In ON BECOMING FEARLESS, she puts it all on the table, exploring fearlessness at work, in parenting, in love, in aging, and much more.  It’s never too early–or too late–for women to learn fearlessness, and ON BECOMING FEARLESS will strike a chord with every woman who wonders how she can make her mark on a world that still values "nice," "accommodating," and "team player" as feminine qualities.

I’ve got my copy – get yours today!

Believe it or not, The E-Myth was the first business book I read and I read it at a critical time in my business – months before I needed to know the difference between working in my business and working on my business.

Many entrepreneurs consider The E-Myth a guide to success for small business owners.

In his book, Gerber discusses each small business has the requirement to fulfill three central roles: the technician, the manager, and the visionary. The technicians of the business are charged with the execution of core tasks that the business performs such as baking a cake (Gerber uses the example of a bakery) or completing the administrative tasks in a service business (bookkeeping, customer service, etc.). Managers in the business are required to direct others in the organization to work effectively as a team. Finally, the visionary, is a critical role in any business to develop a picture of where the business should be in one, five, and ten plus years and plot the course to get there. Essentially, the visionary no longer works in their business (the role of technicians and managers) but evolves to work on their business.

Most entrepreneurs move between all three roles at one point or another in their business – obviously wearing all the hats at the beginning. Gerber posits that more businesses fail because the entrepreneur never makes the move from technician to visionary – never moving beyond working in their business to working on their business.

Any entrepreneur serious about their business growth and longevity should pick up a copy of The E-Myth today!

I just finished watching another of Eben Pagan’s informative videos on Information Product based businesses.  He spoke about the concept of standing on the shoulders of giants and using their age-old concepts as the framework on which you can hang your thoughts & ideas.

Here are some of the books he recommends:

Sigmund Freud: The works of Sigmund Freud, particularly those focusing on the unconcious mind.

Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends & Influence People which shows you how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment.

Napoleon Hll: Think & Grow Rich that is undoubtedly one of the most referenced books in the field of personal development and abundance.  Hill is also cited as the grand daddy of the Mastermind technique so it’s worth checking out his other titles.

Maxwell Maltz: The New Psycho-Cybernetics is a title I’m not familiar with so I will definitely add it to my library.

Earl Nightingale: The Strangest Secret is known for having been the first personal-development audio recording.  Another title I’m not familiary with – will look for the audio file at my favorite online store.

Werner Erhard: The works of Wener Erhard which are a little difficult to come by.

Bandler & Grinder: Frogs Into Princes focusses on Neuro-Linguistic Programming which has helped countless people overcome phobias and addictions.

Joseph Campbell: Hero With A Thousand Faces which is a book I read in high-school and the inspiration for George Lucas’ Star Wars

Eben Pagan posits that by mastering the works of the giants of self-help and personal development you are able to create better information products and personal development tools and programs.

Be sure to add these titles to your library if you are interested in creating products and services in the field of self-help and personal development though I’m sure that any online entrepreneur would do well to read a few of these titles.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about email lately.  Not only because I’ve taken over the Customer Support for three extremely busy online entrepreneurs and receive 1000’s of emails daily.  But also because I seem to be losing the battle to master my addiction to email.

I spent the weekend at our family cottage, frustrated by the lightning fast speed of our dialup connection (I didn’t even know my modem could downgrade to 28.8!).  I spent the weekend downloading email a few times a day and replied to them as time permitted.  It’s quite a switch for me, as someone who is never more than five minutes away from a live internet connection, it was a lesson in patience and email freedom to be forced to check email only three times daily.

A lesson in A LOT of patience!

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