When should product development call marketing? How soon is now?

In the classic hit “How soon is now”, Morrissey from The Smiths lamented “I am human, and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.” A feeling shared by customers when products, developed in a vacuum are thrust onto an unsuspecting world. Dennis Shiao suggests the remedy is the timing of when marketing gets involved. When? How soon is now?

The Features Creatures Issue

This issue was not been named after a classic album. ‘Features Creatures’ by Björk is neither a classic (yet) or an album, but the title of this eccentric track nails the theme for this issue as we look at the relationship between marketing and product development.

Better products, better marketing, better listen

Our resident Rockstar CMO Ted Rubin tells it straight. If you want better products and better marketing then you had better listen, not just to Ted, but to your customers and in the age of socially connected communities, who better to do this than marketing?

Tales from the Tour Bus: Pete Morgan, Metia

Global agency Metia recently published some new research “B2B marketing trends for 2020, Six essential trends for the curious CMO.” Well, people call us a lot of things and one of them is ‘curious’, so we tracked down the author, former record label owner and Metia’s VP of Demand Pete Morgan…

adnonamou5: The rise and fall of the robots

Marketing is ushering in an army of robots and the anonymous advertiser is not happy. He left his office, deep in the hipster heart of London and dropped by the Rockstar CMO penthouse, and we found this rant tied to a brick chucked into reception

The Sample: The Features Creatures

Welcome to The Sample, where we whirl the dial on the interwebs, hit record and sample what we hear about the topic in this issue. This time, we are looking at the relationship between marketing and the product teams, here is what we found.

Happy employees = happy customers

A popular topic here on Rockstar CMO, pulling together the backing band of employees and colleagues to not just improve the experience for the customer, but to become evangalists in our increasingly connected world. Jane Scandurra shares her experience of how we can make that happen.