The Rockstar CMO F'in' Marketing Podcast

In the Marketing Studio this week, Jeff Clark and Ian Truscott continue to discuss the STARS model, from Michael D Watkins’ classic business book “The First 90 Days” and consider how it fits with their 5 F’in’ Marketing Fundamentals.  Ian then joins Robert Rose, Fractional Marketing Leader and Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, in the Rockstar CMO virtual bar for a cocktail and marketing...

Jeff Clark is back in the Marketing Studio this week, and he and Ian Truscott discuss a model for figuring out your business’s needs that they’ve lifted from Michael D Watkins’ classic business book The First 90 Days—STARS:  // Startups // Turnarounds // Accelerated Growth // Realignment // Sustained Success And discuss the challenges and opportunities for marketers working in each of these kinds...

This week with Jeff Clark away, we continue to try different things as our host Ian Truscott reads from a book chapter he’s written called “Shiny Things and Smart Strategies: B2B Marketing in the Tech Age” and would like some feedback on the topic. Ian then joins Robert Rose, Fractional Marketing Leader, and Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, in the Rockstar CMO virtual bar for a cocktail...

This week, we kick off a new regular segment, “Cathy on Content” with The Content Advisory’s Chief Problem Solver and Lead Analyst, Cathy McKnight. In this monthly segment, Ian and Cathy will be discussing what’s caught their eye in the news, a relevant topic, and what’s coming up. This week, Ian and Cathy discuss Cathy’s recent trip to London for Henry Stewart’s DAM Europe event, the term “Univer...

This week, Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director turns the table on our host Ian Truscott to interview him about an upcoming chapter he’s writing for a collective book called “Collecting Jelly Beans; timeless wisdom to grow your organization”.  The topic for Ian’s contribution to the book is a guide on how marketing leaders maintain strategy despite techn...

This week, our host Ian Truscott and Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director, are joined by five-time CMO and marketing mentor Grant Johnson, to discuss his Marketing Performance Index.  It’s Grant’s fourth time on the show, the last time being episode 144. He is a serial CMO who has held the top marketing job in several B2B companies, including Bill Trust,...

This week, our host, Ian Truscott, revisits the first time Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director, appeared on the show in episode 40, back in December 2020. They run through the five points Jeff made in that discussion, and asks him if things have changed in the intervening years.  Plus, Ian asks if Jeff still wants to chuck constant re-branding into the...

This week, Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director and our host Ian Truscott continue discussing marketing metrics, sharing 5 steps (plus a bonus step) for overcoming the five challenges for marketing metrics that they discussed last week.  Ian then joins Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, in the Rockstar CMO virtual bar, where he shar...

This week, following a chat with their old boss, Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director and our host Ian Truscott share five challenges with the current state of marketing measurement and metrics.  And then, in our virtual bar, Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, shares with Ian a fantastic cocktail recipe and a thought about attention...

This week, we try something different as the voice of ChatGPT joins the show as we ask it, “What questions should I ask a panel of marketing experts about product adoption in B2B?”. Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director, and our host Ian Truscott attempt to answer the five questions it asks.  Ian then retires to our virtual bar with Robert Rose, Chief Tro...

This week, Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director, shares with our host Ian Truscott his top four considerations when launching a new product or an existing product into a new market, and Ian adds a final point about when to involve marketing.  Ian then retires to our virtual bar, with Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, who ponders th...

This week Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director shares with our host Ian Truscott his 5 steps for orchestrating large-scale B2B marketing campaigns, from leadership, people, and business goals to budget.   After his scheduling challenges of last week, Robert Rose is back in the bar with a topical thought on Apple’s recent advertising and the fuss it creat...

This week Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and former Forrester Research Director is back from his travels and joins our host Ian Truscott in the marketing studio. They discuss a topic Ian touched on a couple of episodes ago, Forrester’s concept of Frontline Marketing. Is it a one hit wonder? Although Ian got one co-host back, he lost another as, at the last minute, his usual companion in...

Another Ian solo in the studio who shares 5 thoughts, and Robert is in the virtual bar with a great cocktail and a thought about walled gardens.  It’s last week without Jeff, so our host, CMO but “not a rockstar” Ian Truscott is again in the studio on his own, sharing 5 f’in’ marketing thoughts for the week: #1 - Not the regular competitors #2 - Rented Land #3 - Cold emails #4 - The Diversity Bonu...

This week as regular collaborator Jeff Clark continues on his break travelling, our host, CMO but “not a rockstar” Ian Truscott is again in the studio on his own, sharing 5 f’in’ marketing thoughts for the week: #1 - Right fit marketers #2 - Is the Forrester term “Frontline marketers” complete bollocks? #3 - The Buying Tribe #4 - Distinct and Differentiation #5 - Your content, like turn signals, i...

This week as regular collaborator Jeff Clark continues on his break travelling, our host, CMO but not a rockstar Ian Truscott is in the studio on his own, sharing 5 f’in’ marketing thoughts for the week - which are: #1 - Doing a podcast monologue #2 - People asking to pick your brains #3 - Why aren’t people filling in your form? #4 - Ask why you are doing something #5 - Trust and personas Ian then...

This week Jeff Clark starts a month-long break from the show, and so our “not a rockstar” host Ian Truscott, catches up with regular guest, Chief Problem Solver and Lead Analyst, from the Content Advisory Cathy McKnight, for her 10th appearance on the show.  Ian and Cathy chat about the importance of content operations in the face of all the immediate demands on marketing, some takeaways from a re...

This week in the marketing studio, Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor, and our host Ian Truscott chat about some recent articles on and research into the apparent death of the CMO and, if the CMO is not dying, then the much-discussed shorter tenure of marketing leaders compared to their peers.  Ian then winds down the week with Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, in the...

This week in the Rockstar CMO Marketing studio, Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor and our host Ian Truscott chat about analysts and influencers in B2B. They discuss whether the old Forrester and Gartner models are still relevant, how to work with analysts, and the rise of the influence of smaller firms and influential individuals, publications, blogs, and podcasts (like ours!). Ian then wi...

This week Jeff Clark, our resident strategy advisor invites our host Ian Truscott in the Rockstar CMO Marketing studio for a chat about applying our 5 F’in’ Fundamentals to the process of publishing a business book.  In a change to our usual format, Jeff turns the tables and interviews Ian, who shares a bit of what he’s learned from a book proposal writing course and subsequent writers boot camp f...

This week's episode, hosted by 3xCMO and not a rockstar, Ian Truscott, in the Rockstar CMO Marketing Studio, Jeff Clark, former Forrester Research Director, shares 5 hard knocks he’s learned from his experiences of seeing marketing technology implementations gone bad.  Ian then winds down the week with Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, in the Rockstar CMO virtual bar, who, o...

In this week’s visit to the Marketing Studio with Jeff Clark, former Forrester Research Director, he shares his five steps for assessing your marketing operational capabilities, a process he has shared in our Street Knowledge blog.  Ian then winds down the week with Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at The Content Advisory, in the Rockstar CMO virtual bar, who, over a classic cocktail, discusses cla...

In this week’s episode, the topic for the Marketing Studio with Jeff Clark, former Forrester Research Director is the concept of the Demand Unit Waterfall created by his old chums at Forrester. Our host Ian Truscott asks if this is still relevant and Jeff shares six things for B2B marketers to consider from this model.   Ian then winds down the week with Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at The Cont...

In this week’s episode, our host Ian Truscott picks the brains of our resident Rockstar CMO strategic advisor and former Research Director at SiriusDecisions/Forrester Jeff Clark to learn more about Revenue Operations, how it’s different from Marketing Operations and how it impacts the marketing function and marketing leaders.  Ian then winds down the week with Robert Rose, Chief Troublemaker at T...

In this week’s episode, Ian Truscott and our resident Rockstar CMO strategic advisor and former Research Director at SiriusDecisions/Forrester Jeff Clark discuss some data about the “B2B Marketing Lag” published by Dreamdata. The stats that Dreamdata shared that caught our eye: // Only 37% of revenue is impacted within a quarter. // It takes 6 months for 50% of revenue to be impacted. // 25% of th...