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How To Make Your Content Move. Think Like Jerry Seinfeld.

After you watch the video at the end of the post, you will think differently about your content. Promise.

Have you had a chance to check out Jerry Seinfeld‘s wildly successful online series called, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee? It’s great. Let’s start there. The premise is simple: Seinfeld chooses a fellow comedian that he admires and he asks them out for a coffee and conversation. In the show, Seinfeld (a car fanatic) chooses a car that best represents his guest, picks them up, they go for a drive and then they extend their conversation over coffee. You not only get some great (and hilarious) moments, but you’re able to better understand how these entertainers think, what makes them tick and what they find funny. It’s very human. It’s very real. People flock to it, not just because it’s Seinfeld and another celebrity, but because it’s a peek behind the curtain. It’s less about what any one celebrity is promoting and much more about their careers and their creative process. Fascinating stuff.

What does this have to do with your content? Everything.

The Paley Center For Media hosts some pretty impressive events, and this one is a doozy. Jerry Seinfeld sits down (for over an hour!) to discuss Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee with David Letterman (crazy, right?). You will have to pay close attention, but there are tons of nuggets that are completely transferable to any brand thinking about content marketing and how to tell stories that work and inspire when most people are watching them graze by on their mobile devices. Just Seinfeld’s theory on how his show had to "move" in this new world, is worth the price of admission alone. You will be tempted to simply click the play button below and be entertained. Don’t do this. Grab a pen and a notebook or fire up your Evernote and take notes. There’s gold in here, Jerry, gold!

Jerry Seinfeld And David Letter – The Paley Center for Media.

(also, if you want to hear more about understanding the dynamics of comedy, success and telling better stories, take a listen to my conversation with James Altucher: SPOS #425 – Laughing All The Way To The Bank With James Altucher)

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.