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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 June, 2010

TED Talks: Chip Conley

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

I love TED Talks and could probably spend two weeks watching all of them. I ran across this really good and interesting talk Chip Conley gives on deciding what “counts” and what to count and what in life is worth the focus. Boy, this is a good time for me to consider the subject. How [...]

Journey “Faithfully” video

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Boy, I remember trying my damnedest to have the mullet of Steve Perry like in this great video.  Those were THE actual days my friend.

The value of boredom

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Peter Bregman has an interesting post in the Harvard Business Review Blog about the value of boredom.  Check it out.

10 Steps to my dream airline.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

The Donald tried it.
Sir Richard is trying it.
I’d like to try too.
My mother-in-law came into town last weekend and we went through the whole wheelchair at the gate, Southwest bit.  Now, I like Southwest and I don’t agree that it’s like cattle.  I could care less.  I think you have to respect the fact that [...]

New Haircuts

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Sorry I’ve been off the ball lately — working hard like a boy should.
I was getting in the car today in a part of LA that is 15 miles from home.  I had been thinking that I’d call my hair stylist on the way home and try to “sneak in”.  She hates it when I [...]