About the Author
Michael Port was born November 12, 1970. He is a graduate of New York University. He is an actor and corporate speaker. His books include Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect, The Think Big Manifesto and Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing show more Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life. show less
Works by Michael Port
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 (2006) 434 copies, 3 reviews
Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life (2015) 167 copies, 3 reviews
The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again (2009) 42 copies, 1 review
The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite (2008) 26 copies
The Referable Speaker: Your Guide to Building a Sustainable Speaking Career—No Fame Required (2021) 7 copies
The Palace of Westminster: Surveyed on the Eve of the Conflagration, 1834 (London Topographical Society Publication) (2011) 6 copies
Steal the show : how to guarantee a standing ovation for all the performances in your life (2016) 2 copies
The Referable Speaker 2 copies
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Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances by Michael Port
I wanted to like this book but ended up deeply disappointed. It is really 2 stars, but includes a couple of decent points and is an important topic so I was generous.
Basically two parts — a completely forgettable “life advice from an actor and public speaker” (which was simultaneously generic and bleh), and then a longer section on actual public speaking advice, again based on acting techniques. This was somewhat useful. Most was generic advice but with good motivation (rehearse a lot, show more make eye contact), but some information about improv exercises, stage blocking, and other acting specific techniques which was actually new and worthwhile.
Unfortunately, most of the book was peppered with sales pitches for the author’s speaking consultancy.
Overall, I’d probably skip this book, although it could be worth it for someone doing a lot of speaking events for the specific acting derived insights. show less
Basically two parts — a completely forgettable “life advice from an actor and public speaker” (which was simultaneously generic and bleh), and then a longer section on actual public speaking advice, again based on acting techniques. This was somewhat useful. Most was generic advice but with good motivation (rehearse a lot, show more make eye contact), but some information about improv exercises, stage blocking, and other acting specific techniques which was actually new and worthwhile.
Unfortunately, most of the book was peppered with sales pitches for the author’s speaking consultancy.
Overall, I’d probably skip this book, although it could be worth it for someone doing a lot of speaking events for the specific acting derived insights. show less
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 by Michael Port
Set up within three modules; Setting your foundation, building your trust and credibility, and then the core 7 strategies
Your given specific instrustions and tasks to help identify what you have to offer and the how to methods to market that skill. If your marketing reading material is small then this book will offer lots of great tools for you to get started. For those who read numerous books to gather new tools and ideas then this may provide a few nuggets, but most likley it will be the show more same material we've seen elsewhere only in a new packaged format.
Overall it's reminded me of some areas I can focus on further, but not much after that. show less
Your given specific instrustions and tasks to help identify what you have to offer and the how to methods to market that skill. If your marketing reading material is small then this book will offer lots of great tools for you to get started. For those who read numerous books to gather new tools and ideas then this may provide a few nuggets, but most likley it will be the show more same material we've seen elsewhere only in a new packaged format.
Overall it's reminded me of some areas I can focus on further, but not much after that. show less
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 by Michael Port
Set up within three modules; Setting your foundation, building your trust and credibility, and then the core 7 strategies
Your given specific instrustions and tasks to help identify what you have to offer and the how to methods to market that skill. If your marketing reading material is small then this book will offer lots of great tools for you to get started. For those who read numerous books to gather new tools and ideas then this may provide a few nuggets, but most likley it will be the show more same material we've seen elsewhere only in a new packaged format.
Overall it's reminded me of some areas I can focus on further, but not much after that. show less
Your given specific instrustions and tasks to help identify what you have to offer and the how to methods to market that skill. If your marketing reading material is small then this book will offer lots of great tools for you to get started. For those who read numerous books to gather new tools and ideas then this may provide a few nuggets, but most likley it will be the show more same material we've seen elsewhere only in a new packaged format.
Overall it's reminded me of some areas I can focus on further, but not much after that. show less
Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life by Michael Port
Eh. This was totally for actors and public speakers. I just needed help with an interview, so I wasn't so into it.
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