How I Went From Burnt-Out Business Owner To Positively Bloody Ecstatic Business Builder In 18 Short Months

Official version

Matthew Kimberley is the Head of the Book Yourself Solid School of Coach Training, author of How To Get A Grip, sales trainer, marketing coach, terrible cook and adequate lover.

The potted version

Matthew Kimberley is an Elite Level Book Yourself Solid small business marketing coach and Head of the Book Yourself Solid Coach Training program.

He gets his clients more clients of their own. He works with life coaches, creatives, financial and legal professionals (and other marketing coaches) to take good ideas from being just good ideas to being cash in their pocket.

To boot, Matthew is a motivator: the author of How To Get A Grip, a real book (paper, ink, ISBN, traditional publisher, international distribution natch) that is officially the LAST self-help book you’ll ever need. Fewer faeries and more drill-sergeant-style exhortations to get out of bed and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Matthew Kimberley lives in Malta with his wife and son and serves clients all over the world.

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The Full English

For years, I worked hard at selling stuff.

I sold double glazing to people with only one pane of glass. I sold timeshare apartments to people who didn’t need or want them and I sold expensive corporate solutions to harassed and sweaty executives.

I swallowed all the books on selling I could get my hands on. I was devilishly good. I became a grandson figure to old people, a trusted advisor to young people and a buddy to my peers – whatever was needed to get them to part with their cash.

I learned to extract credit card details from people with alacrity and wit. Quite a skill, huh?

In 2008 I put both my brain cells together and, with a partner, launched a tech recruitment company in Brussels, Belgium, where I’d been living, on and off, for eight years.

The first year was good. I brought in a couple of junior staff and together we sold over 1.1m EUR worth of services in the space of eleven months.

The next year, though, was a sphincter-shaker.

2009 was tough for everybody.

Banks were failing, corporations were down-sizing and the first folk out the door were the external consultants – exactly the people we traded in.

We responded by getting our heads down and firing the underperformers.

The result? We more than doubled the previous year’s revenue.

Was there a sweet, sexy smell of success? Not at all. I had no love for my job. I was working long, long hours. And although I was the boss, I was having problems leading by example. I was the wrong person in the wrong place, and all of it my own doing.

A massive failure.

In December 2009 my son was born. Overnight, my interest in selling stuff at the lowest possible price to hard-nosed and disinterested multinationals plummeted to zero.

By June 2010 I decided it was time to hang out with my kid.

I spent August in the Mediterranean writing a book. Then, I pooled my few resources and many failings into doing some work that I was proud to call mine. I got certified by Michael Port as a Book Yourself Solid Coach – specialized in getting small business more clients.

It changed my life.

The end result is that now I actually help people who need help and who want it. I get paid well for it. I work FAR fewer hours than I used to. And best of all, I get to see my son grow up.

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