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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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The I-Phone is that guy at your high school reunion

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Apple Marcus sent this over.  Funny as heck.

Hothead is doing quite nicely, thank you

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

The yearly stats are in and we are happy at hothead central.  We have grown steadily since our groundbreak in April and now count as many as 8,000 uniques each month.  Thanks guys and thanks google for the love.

Best old thing that’s still new

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

You’re gonna laugh, but I still have a high level of love for GMAIL.  Yep, you’ve read right. I’ve tried all the others.  Had Outlook for 12 years.  Nothing works for me like GMAIL and Google Calendar along with the myriad plugins and sync devices I utilize on my blackberry. This year GMAIL has gotten [...]

Christmas presents 15 and 18

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

DROPBOX wows, while xbmc is still being figured out in my office.  I wanted to send both these sites to you anyway.  DROPBOX is brilliant.  Take a file, drop it in your dropbox, fly to Tokyo, go to public computer in the Ginza, open your dropbox account and wa-la!…. your files are retrievable.  No big [...]

Hothead is now twitter proficient

Friday, December 12th, 2008

If you follow me on twitter, then you’ll get updates by mobile phone.  You’re welcome.

Please subscribe so you are immediately updated

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

I know I know… that email submission box is long due. Shoot me. Just put in your email and I’ll see if I like you. HH

Mugzy to the rescue

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Haven’t you always wished that Ralph Lauren would pay you for wearing that $400 shirt? Well, now some of that notion is going to be possible.  A bit in San Fran Mag tells all.  I think this looping of commerce and all the different marketing verticals is due.  One of the HH’s new business notions [...]

Amazon mp3s are ready to buy

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Thanks to Movie BC for the lead on Amazon mp3s.  Pay less, put them in iTunes and they are drm free.  See the left sidebar to buy any mp3 you wish.  I get a cut from your purchase.  Thanks and uh — don’t be buying any Ethel Merman okay?

Xobni Sews Up Loose Ends

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Thanks to Red Sox Mike for this tip. I just downloaded XOBNI for Outlook and I have to say upon 10 minutes look its excellent.  I’ll give a full review soon, but check it out if you are swimming in email hell.  They say they will have xobni done for other clients soon. XOBNI

Try this idea at your store or business

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

On the walks through fire central I saw a great sign by a church in our town. It read “First Time Visitor Parking”. The two parking spaces were right in front near the door. What if your law firm or dry cleaners had this sign in front of it’s doors or in two or three [...]

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