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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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Archive for September, 2009

Win the war with your day

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

The Harvard business blog has a great post on how to win the war on time management.  It’s an 18 minute plan.

The view from here – music biz gets me down

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Sitting at @redrockcasino [or as they like to say @stationcasinos] pool cabana looking at @johnlegend’s empty stage which tonight will be Lynard Skynard’s full stage.  It’s kind of a freebie venue that you can hear from the restaurants and bars but does have paid seating as well. He couldn’t sell it last night. So many [...]

Lots of loose ends…

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

[Brian Eno] hosts this post. I wanted to just talk about a bunch of little things that are around and not stink it up with many big posts. Jay Leno – Thought the new show was a rehab of his old show.  If this is what’s gonna kill prime time at 10, then whatever gets [...]

Fat content in America is the real health care debate

Friday, September 11th, 2009

[editor's note - I like my In N Out burger once in a while too.  My main point is that the real fast food cycle is supported by addicted users] Michael Pollan brings up many good points in his op-ed for the NYT.  Health care is costly mainly because we are a people spoiled on [...]

Older guys labor more and better

Monday, September 7th, 2009

For Labor Day, @jmarc2004 sent this to me.  I agree.  Obviously. If you’re over 40, you can still run a great start-up and succeed so says Vivek Wadhwa.