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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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Down in the big easy it ain’t so easy

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

In new orleans for a coupla days and thinking about how capitalism, even with the best of intentions, can often fail a big place like this. Katrina wiped her out but it was on the brink prior and no one was looking.  I was here in February of ’05, about 6 months before the big [...]

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A worthless message

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I received this email today from Vikram Pandit, new CEO of CITI. I’m sure millions of us CITI card holders did. What a worthless message. To think that his team, their team, and someone else’s team spent probably a corporate month (longer than a lunar month) to make this message. What does it mean? What [...]

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