The Rose & Rockstar: Ignoring Mark Twain

Welcome to The Rose and Rockstar - with the Chief Troublemaker at Seventh Bear, fractional marketing leader and author, Robert Rose, behind the bar serving a fabulous weekend cocktail while our host Ian Truscott, a CMO but not a rockstar, picks his brain on a marketing topic. 

This week, ignoring the advice of Mark Twain to never discuss politics or religion in polite company, the chaps tackle brands navigating the politicization of everything. 

They discuss:

Brands must navigate the politicization of just about eveything

Aligning with political figures can risk brand identity

Examples of brands that have tripped over this

Employees should have guidelines for personal social media 

Brands need to define and stick to an authentic stance

Do you have a question for the bar? Or maybe an opinion on what we’ve discussed? Please get in touch - just search “rockstar cmo” on the interwebs or LinkedIn.

Enjoy!

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The Links

The people:

Ian Truscott on LinkedIn and Bluesky

Robert Rose on LinkedIn and Bluesky

Mentioned this week

Tuesday 2¢ – Find Your Miriam - the story of Miriam Webb, influencer fired by Chick-fil-A

Robert’s regular Rose Colored Glasses column on the Content Marketing Institute blog

This Old Marketing podcast

Rockstar CMO:

The Beat Newsletter that we send every Monday

Rockstar CMO on the web, Twitter, and LinkedIn

Previous episodes and all the show notes: Rockstar CMO FM.

Track List:

Piano Music is by Johnny Easton, shared under a Creative Commons license

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