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THE CLUB CLASSICS VOLUME ONE ISSUE

JUNE 2020

This month’s issue is named after a genuine classic album, at least here in the UK, or maybe just here in the Rockstar CMO penthouse! It’s Soul II Soul’s 1989 album Club Classics Volume One.

Why this album this month? Well, it’s for the track “Keep on movin'” that captures the theme of this month’s issue, as we hopefully enter the tail end of the worst of the pandemic, and cautiously get back to marketing.

Our Rockstar CMOs and writers have served up some fantastic advice this month. From what the pandemic has taught us that we need to keep doing, some tips on virtual events and personal branding, to how to prepare for what is likely to be uncertain economic times. Plus, all the usual shenanigans.

So, welcome to THE CLUB CLASSICS VOLUME ONE ISSUE.

Enjoy!

Ian Truscott | Founding Editor | @iantruscott

Don’t stop
Keep on moving, don’t stop no (Like the hands of time)
Keep on moving (click clock)
(Find your own way to stay) keep on moving
The time will come one day

Keep on movin’ – Soul II Soul

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The Green Room: Five CMOs name their crisis keepers

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Play for the customer, not the brand

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Beat the budget blues with digital marketing

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Light up the sky like a flame, fame!

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Never mind the bullshit: How creativity really happens

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The Sample: Keep on movin’

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Adnonamau5: In the Land of the Blind…the Consultant is King

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Tales from the tour bus: Carlos Doughty and the MarTech Alliance

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The Swimming Pool #25: Bandwagoning

This month we are joined John Howe-Marshall, Chief Marketing Officer of SplitmediaLabs on the penthouse balcony, ready to give the heave-ho to “Bandwagoning”…
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Back to life, back to the present time,

back from a fantasy.

Yeah Tell me now, take the initiative,

I’ll leave it in your hands until you’re ready.

Back to life – Soul II Soul



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