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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

I often joke it's the only thing I'm trained to do because I have a master's from the grad acting program at NYU.

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

Everything I've learned in business, I've just learned on the street.

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

But this book is about performance, not just public speaking, although it is a tour de force on public speaking.

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

We have another business that is called Heroic Public Speaking, and it is designed to help people make better public speakers.

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

We can guarantee that we can make anyone better.

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

That's a guarantee that we give to everyone.

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

But the book is not...

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

Remember how I said, if you write a book that's incredibly specific, you can limit your market.

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

Now, you can get to a market, and if that's your market that you're trying to reach, because for business purposes, then that makes a lot of sense.

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

But for me, I wanted to go bigger.

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

I want the general audience.

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

I want everybody out there.

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

I didn't want to write a book just about public speaking, because not everybody is out there reading books about public speaking.

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

Steelers so far is probably about 13,000.

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

Okay, 13,000.

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

And it came out on the 6th of October.

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

It's the 5th of November right now.

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

Well, there are a number of different ones.

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

So we have a crash course that sells for $100 million.

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

No, it sells for $1,000 and it's often discounted.