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Charles L Martin's Blog

Charles L Martin has spent a lifetime experiencing hard won sales and marketing battles in the fashion (7th Avenue), film (Hollywood), beverage (Worldwide), and financial industries (SoCal).

His clients, past and present, include Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger, Esprit, D.F. Sanders & Co., more than 25 A-List actors and producers in film, Rhino Chaser's Beer, Signature Nannies, among others. By clients, he sometimes means "bosses" and sometimes "clients".

The concept of Anticipation Marketing is his specialty.

He loves marketers and sales hacks. He loves (or dislikes) your company. His rants 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, Stella Artois, and Craft Beers like Craftsman and Dogfish Head, master Japanese gardens, xeriscape, politics, and music.

email charles 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 great songs [...]

    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 killed deserves it.  [...]

    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 instant [...]

    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.