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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), 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, among others.

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 Racer 5 and Dogfish Head, master Japanese gardens, xeriscape, politics, and music.

email charles at vendorcloud@gmail.com

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Archive for March, 2010

Some things remain the same – thankfully

Monday, March 29th, 2010

I arrived back at my track clinic last Tuesday with a little hesitation.  After all, I hadn’t been there for more than two years and the crew there is into it.  These are people that don’t skip much.  Also, the 6000 meters I was about to run wasn’t going to be spectacularly fun – it’s hard work. I [...]

Tears for Fears: How I Got Here From There aka Take That Chance

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Thanks to a chance encounter (shout out to @campbrand), we went to the Tears for Fears’s (TFF) concert last night at the Wiltern. It was a long, delayed opening and then… and then… we were all swept back to the mid-80′s like we never left.  Smith started on a wonderful bit of “Mad World”.  Then we [...]

The end of the playlist: @kcrw eclectic24

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The end of the playlist is here.  At least in my world. I’ve been testing eclectic 24 on @kcrw through apple tv and other means and it (literally) rocks.  Now, with any party, I’m going to just hit the radio stream and my whole house is full of continuous great music.  Very little talk.  No [...]

Brilliant mini-film “The Sandpit”

Monday, March 1st, 2010

This is about as brilliant a hand-made film for the web as it can be.  If you think about the work that was put into this and how it was shot to seem as if everything was a model (or at least to me it did), you have to agree it’s great.  Really great.  Makes [...]