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Michael Port

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
198 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

And my hope is that it becomes an evergreen book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

That's what you're looking for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

You're looking to write books that have evergreen potential.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

If you write a book that is...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

like the political books, it's got one season in it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

If you write a social media book that is incredibly detail-oriented from a tactical perspective with respect- You got like two weeks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

You got two weeks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

So you gotta keep doing new additions, new additions, and new additions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

And there's some value in that certainly, but most of the folks that I've talked to who are in that space, who've written those kinds of books, bemoan the fact that they wrote that kind of book and wish they had done something a little bit more general and strategic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

But Steal the Show is the book that people are surprised I didn't write first because my first career was as an actor and I had a modicum of success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

I was on shows like Sex and the City, Third Watch, All My Children, Law and Order, 100 Center Street.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

I did The Pelican Brief, Down to Earth, Last Call of the Believer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

And then I did hundreds of voiceovers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

Voiceovers was my bread and butter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

I used to do 1-800-CALL-ATT.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

That's very kind of you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

But my podcast, Steal the Show, is one big giant voiceover.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

I read all of my books.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

Most authors don't read their books.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 116: Get $25k First Book Advance and Sell 500,000 Copies with Michael Port

I read my books.