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The Rockstar CMO Studio: Awareness SNAFUs

Mar 6, 2025 By MPN

This week, former Forrester Research Director Jeff Clark and Ian Truscott, a CMO and not a rockstar, dive into their AMPED B2B buyers' journey to explore 5 SNAFUs a buyer might discover when they are in that phase and what we as marketers can do about it.  The 5 SNAFUs they discuss: #1 Lack of understanding the problem or potential solution  #2 Does any other business have this problem?  #3 Who else (internally) feels this pain?  #4 Unable to invest the time  #5 Can I get executive buy-in that we have a problem?  As always, we welcome your feedback. If you have a suggestion for a topic that is hot for you, please get in touch using the links below.   Enjoy! — The Links The people: Ian Truscott on LinkedIn and Bluesky Jeff Clark on LinkedIn Mentioned this week What Rockstar CMOs Need to Know: The New Rules of B2B Marketing and Best of Breed Solutions - webinar with Storyblok Thomas’ startup - Otterly.ai Otterly.ai in Techcrunch 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: We’ll be right back by Stienski & Mass Media on YouTube Search for The Hero - M People on YouTube You can listen to this on all good podcast platforms, like Apple, Amazon and Spotify.

The Rockstar CMO Studio: Awareness SNAFUs
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This week, former Forrester Research Director Jeff Clark and Ian Truscott, a CMO and not a rockstar, dive into their AMPED B2B buyers’ journey to explore 5 SNAFUs a buyer might discover when they are in that phase and what we as marketers can do about it. 

The 5 SNAFUs they discuss:

#1 Lack of understanding the problem or potential solution 

#2 Does any other business have this problem? 

#3 Who else (internally) feels this pain? 

#4 Unable to invest the time 

#5 Can I get executive buy-in that we have a problem? 

As always, we welcome your feedback. If you have a suggestion for a topic that is hot for you, please get in touch using the links below.

 

Enjoy!

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