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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 December, 2010

Merry Christmas

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Here’s a little link on some of the fun side work I do. Merry Christmas and thanks for being there! Mortgage Modifications Get Some Real Help

Daniel Pink and RSA Animate

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Love this stuff.  I read the book and told you about it last year. Thanks to BCBCBC, I was able to show you. Please take 10 minutes on your coffee/smoke/doobie break and watch this. You might need the full screen mode to get out of my small blog limitations. Are you a purpose motivator? You [...]

15 minutes

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Not the fame kind. After hearing this NPR story of the great Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and his little song (and getting whirlpool eyes), it struck me that there will probably be nothing we do in life that is important or will have an impact on others that isn’t accomplished in less than 15 minutes. – Saying [...]

sincerity

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

There’s something hard about sincerity. People just aren’t naturally attracted to that vortex. In the modern approach, we want to make it all sound so so “right”. That may mean that we aren’t truthful. This approach always careens of course. In the years of being a seller I’ve learned to guide my prospects to a [...]