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Charles L Martin has spent a lifetime experiencing hard won sales and marketing battles in the fashion (7th Avenue), film (Hollywood), food & beverage (Worldwide), and social marketing (SoCal) industries. He enjoyed working as an assistant to Liz Ortenberg (Claiborne), Tommy Hilfiger, and producer Scott Rudin, among others. He has worked for Esprit, D.F. Sanders & Co., more than 25 other A-List actors and producers, Rhino Chaser's Beer, EarthLink, United Tranz Actions, OpenTable and now LivingSocial, which is the coolest gig around.

The concept of Anticipation Marketing is his specialty. He loves marketers and sales hacks. He loves (or dislikes) your company. His rants on hotheadblog.com may inspire you. They may ignite you. Either way, it's all good. Follow Charles on Twitter @vendorcloud

Charles is a 4-time marathoner with a 3:58 PR. He also enjoys loads of time with his awesome family as well as advocating in modernist architecture, fine wine, craft beer, master Japanese gardens, xeriscape, politics, and music. email him at vendorcloud@gmail.com .

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Sales as a professional profession

By Charles Martin | April 27, 2009

Great piece sent over by @bcbcbc today from the New York Times and Ben Stein on salespeople and their craft.

Agree all around.

Sales guys rule.

We’ve always known we’re in the catbird seat.

We suffer the pain for a company in wait.  We live the crush of a never-ending sales cycle that basically ends on our funeral day regardless of when we actually retire.  In other words, we’re always selling and the good ones sell ’til the death.

Once again, the new economy will depend on our engines to complete the circle.  Obama should have a national sales day for us.

Go gettem’.

Topics: Greats in business, Read this, Sales Acumen | 1 Comment »

One Response to “Sales as a professional profession”

  1. Jeremy Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    You nailed it! I like to tell people that “we’re all in sales, it’s just that some of us know it.”

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