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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, 2011

Where you are. Where you’re going.

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Merry Christmas everyone. No matter how you think 2011 is ending, it’s not any different than the last ten or twenty Decembers you’ve had. We forget. We forget it’s all a cycle. When you take that long flight across country, remember there’s more empty and distant cloud layers out the window than buildings and mountains.  Have [...]

2012 – The Year of All of Us

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

I saw it on the freeway today.  A big rig was getting back on the freeway after a sidelined repair.  Every other big rig in the active lanes stopped so she could get on. It was moving. Funny but true. I saw it last week when we had a power outage that has run 6+ [...]