Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your Way Its All Inside: Michael Port

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In Beyond Booked Solid, Michael Port returns with new tactics for growing your business even bigger. Port’s Book Yourself Solid was a huge hit among professional service providers and small business owners who learned to master the art of attracting clients and keeping them happy. In this book, he helps your business keep growing by taking the next step, beyond booked solid. That means maximizing your business while working less and earning more. This is the ultimate guide for your growing business.

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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 readers simply have more clients than they can handle.

But, 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. In addition, Beyond Booked Solid will show you how to:

• Innovate for continuous growth with less work

• Cultivate the right attitude for continued success

• Double, triple, or even quadruple your sales

• Find sources of easy passive and leveraged income

• Systematize the business so it doesn’t need you every day

• Delegate administrative dirty work to others

• Design your business so that it serves your ultimate lifestyle

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.

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Money, Interest, and Banking in Economic Development (The Johns Hopkins Studies in Development): Professor Maxwell J. Fry

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Praise for the first edition: “Economists and students interested in this area will find it indispensable.”–’Journal of Economic Literature.’ “A must for academicians and policymakers.”–’Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking’

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“Economists and students interested in this area will find it indispensable.” — Journal of Economic Literature., reviewing a previous edition or volume

“A must for academicians and policymakers.” — Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, reviewing a previous edition or volume

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Manarin on Money: Roland R. Manarin

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Most people I meet are confused about money in some way. I can t blame them, writes Roland Manarin in this engaging, honest, and inspirational guide to recognizing and avoiding common mistakes that rob so many of their financial peace of mind.

Everywhere you turn, headlines shout at you, about the best investments and the right way to invest (and you d better hurry or you might miss out on a good thing!); or about the financial crisis-du-jour that we re assured could bring about the end of Western civilization.

Manarin has been teaching people the basics of money and investing for over three decades, urging them to identify and control their worst instincts; ignore the investment hype and media noise; focus on the long term; buy when everyone else is selling, and sell when everyone else is buying.

Now he has brought together in this book all he s learned and observed about human behavior and misbehavior around money. Manarin On Money is the story of his immigrant rags-to-riches journey; a tutorial with stories about the common misconceptions people have about how wealth is built and maintained; a warning that some safe investments can be quite risky and some supposedly risky investments can be quite safe; and a manifesto for the liberation of the individual investor from an investment industry that continues to put its interests ahead of the public s.

You don t need a degree in economics to understand the concepts Manarin teaches and writes about. You may be surprised to learn that conventional wisdom, such as paying off your mortgage, may actually keep you from letting your money work as hard for you as it can.

Something in this book could change your life by helping you make a good choice or avoid a bad one, steering you away from struggle and anxiety, and toward security and independence.

About the Author
Roland R. Manarin arrived in America in 1954 as a ten year-old, in a European family of marble workers that had survived the economic and political upheavals of World War II. His father had been recruited from northern Italy to Omaha, Nebraska, where he used his craftsman skills to earn the money to raise a family, and where Manarin worked from junior high through college as a clerk in a grocery store.

He grew up keenly aware of the preciousness of money, and curious about how it works.

After a stint selling life insurance, then office equipment and business forms, he was talked into becoming a stock broker. He rose through the ranks to become one of the firm s top investment advisors, until his superiors pressured him to sell his clients inappropriate investments that were more profitable to the firm.

He quit and started his own company. A quarter century later, Manarin Investment Counsel, Ltd., is an independent registered investment advisory firm with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, managing assets of more than $500 million. Barron s magazine has twice singled him out for recognition: as one of America s Best Wealth Advisors in 2004; and one of the Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors in 2007.

Inspired by the example of the legendary investor Sir John Templeton, in 2000 Manarin launched the Lifetime Achievement Fund, a globally diversified, professionally-managed public mutual fund in which he keeps the lion s share of his own wealth.

For three decades he has taught a free, three-part monthly seminar series on personal finance, economics, and the investment markets. His weekly radio show, It s Your Money, has been on the air for more than two decades.

Roland currently lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

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The Government of Money: Monetarism in Germany and the United States (Cornell Studies in Political Economy): Peter A. Johnson

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In recent years governments have increasingly given their central banks the freedom to pursue policies of price stability. In particular, the German Bundesbank and the U.S. Federal Reserve have been widely considered models of autonomous policymaking. This book traces the origins of their success to the political struggle to adopt monetarism in Germany and the United States.

The Government of Money contends that the political involvement of monetarist economists was central to this endeavor. The book examines the initiatives undertaken by monetarists from 1970 to 1985 and the policies that resulted once their ideas were enacted. Taking a historical approach to major issues of political economy, Peter A. Johnson describes both the political efforts of the monetarist economists to convert central banks to their preferred policies and the resistance offered by traditionalist central bankers, politicians, and financial and labor interests.

Johnson concludes that monetarist ideas succeeded in part because their supporters convincingly claimed that price stability would promote political stability. He thereby challenges important assumptions about politics and policymaking in both countries and reveals the often hidden influence of monetary policy on the health of capitalist democracies.

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The Purchasing Power of Money: Its Determination and Relation to Credit Interest and Crises: Irving Fisher

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Of all wealth, man himself is a species. Like his horses or his cattle, he is himself a material object, and like them, he is owned: for if slave, he is owned by another, and if free, by himself. But though human beings may be considered as wealth, human qualities, such as skill, intelligence, and inventiveness, are not wealth. Just as the hardness of steel is not wealth, but merely a quality of one particular kind of wealth,-hard steel,-so the skill of a workman is not wealth, but merely a quality of another particular kind of wealth-skilled workman. Similarly, intelligence is not wealth, but an intelligent man is wealth. -from “Chapter I: Primary Definitions”

Perhaps America’s first celebrated economist, Irving Fisher-for whom the Fisher equation, the Fisher hypothesis, and the Fisher separation theorem are named-staked an early claim to fame with his revival, in this 1912 book, of the “quantity theory of money.”

An important work of 20th-century economics, this work explores: the circulation of money against goods the various circulating media the mystery of circulating credit how a rise in prices generates a further rise influence of foreign trade on the quantity of money the problem of monetary reform and much more.

About the Author
American economist IRVING FISHER (1867-1947) was professor of political economy at Yale University. Among his many books are Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices (1892), The Rate of Interest (1907), Why Is the Dollar Shrinking? A Study in the High Cost of Living (1914), and Booms and Depressions (1932).

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Safe Money: Building Effective Credit Unions in Latin America (Inter-American Development Bank): Professor Glenn D. Westley, Professor Brian Branch

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Credit unions, the most important source of credit for microenterprises in Latin America, reach the poor in large numbers and have great potential for expansion and growth. When donor funding and subsidies began to dry up in the mid-1980s, and competition from commercial banks intensified in the 1990s, many credit unions throughout the region found themselves facing a profound crisis. The more progressive credit unions responded to these competitive forces by developing greater financial discipline and service innovation.

In facing up to this new environment, Latin American credit union movements will have to grapple with four key issues: rehabilitation, regulation and supervision, governance, and consolidation. Safe Money explores these issues and presents the new thinking on how credit unions can compete effectively in modern financial markets while still retaining their social mission.

About the Author

Glenn Westley is Senior Advisor in the IDB Microenterprise Unit. Brian Branch is Director of Technical Services for the World Council of Credit Unions.

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Fair Not Flat: How to Make the Tax System Better and Simpler: Edward J. McCaffery

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From Library Journal
Tax-law expert McCaffery is a professor of law at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics. In this articulate follow-up to Taxing Women, he provides an accessible and effective analysis of the present federal income tax and estate- and gift-tax systems and proposes an innovative approach that would replace both with a consistent progressive consumption tax. The author asserts that this proposal could simplify the system, reduce the negative impact of politicians and special interest groups, and make taxation fairer in general. This simple book covers a wide array of topics, ranging from the history of the U.S. tax system to the problems associated with previous tax reform initiatives, including the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and present discussions regarding implementation of a flat tax. A glossary, a list of further readings, and examples drawn from recent popular works (e.g., Robert T. Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad) enhance the text. Provocative and persuasively argued, this book is recommended for both academic and public libraries. Norm Hutcherson, California State Univ., Bakersfield
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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“Ed McCaffery is brilliant. He is very knowledgeable about our tax code and he speaks English. His new book takes on the flat-tax advocates by showing that our system can be both fair and simple.” - Pat Schroeder; “Ed McCaffery pumps more logic into this one book than most do in a lifetime of writing. If you want to correct the foibles of our present tax system, Fair Not Flat is the one essential book you must read.” - Bob Packwood

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Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems: Jonathan Story, Ingo Walter

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Few aspects of the great European integration project have been as difficult and fraught with political conflict as the creation of a single financial market and monetary union. It is clear, however, that monetary union and financial integration are now on the front-burner in Europe, and will remain so until at least the year 2000.

This timely volume traces the political, financial, and economic steps toward financial union in Europe, focusing on the political economy of the process—notably the dynamics of a Europe of sovereign states. It is the first integrated view of the issue, combining political, economic, and financial perspectives. Authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible, the volume is essential reading for students, researchers, policy makers, journalists, and anyone who needs to know about financial integration in Europe.

About the Author
Jonathan Story is Professor of Politics at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Ingo Walter is the Charles Simon Professor of Applied Financial Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and has held a joint appointment as the Swiss Bank Corporation Professor of International Management at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

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Medicare Hospital Subsidies: Money in Search of a Purpose: Sean Nicholson

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A study reviewing the rationales, legislative history, and financial incentives of both types of hospital subsidies. Softcover.

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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let It Happen: Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous

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“At a time when economies around the world are going wobbly, this insightful and timely book reminds us of the principles and the policies which America will need to employ to restore stability and prosperity.”– Lady Thatcher , prime minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990

“This book focuses on the greatest economic issues of our time. While I have very different views, it’s through careful debate and full understanding that we can make progress. This book is a must-read.” — Joe Kennedy, former congressman from Massachusetts

“Fair warning! No one can say, ‘No one told us this would happen.’ Art Laffer, Steve Moore, and Peter Tanous have done just that with this brilliantly insightful book. Read it — and act!” — Steve Forbes

“Frankly, I think supply-side economics is snake oil. But you should know how three of its smartest proponents try to defend it in this influential and important book.”– Robert Reich

Arthur Laffer — the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board — joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies of the last twenty-five years are reversed by a new president.

Since the early 1980s, the United States has experienced a wave of prosperity almost unprecedented in history in terms of wealth creation, new jobs, and improved living standards for all. Under the leadership of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, Americans changed the incentive structure on taxes, inflation, and regulation, and as a result the economy roared back to life after the anti-growth, high-inflation 1970s.

Now the rest of the world is following the American economic growth model of lower tax rates, more economic freedom, and sound money. Paradoxically, one country is moving away from these growth policies and putting its prosperity at risk — America.

On the eve of a critical presidential election, Laffer, Moore, and Tanous provide the factual information every American needs in order to understand exactly how we achieved the prosperity many people have come to take for granted, and explain how the policies of Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi can cause America to lose its status as the world’s growth and job creation machine.

The End of Prosperity is essential reading for all Americans who value our nation’s free enterprise system and high standard of living, and want to know how to protect their own investments in the coming storm.

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