Martin Smith comes from a long line of southern storytellers. Family background helped Martin build a marketing career starting with Procter and Gamble, moving to M&M/Mars and NutraSweet before starting his first e-commerce company Found Objects, a funky gift seller, in 1999. Martin accepted a position as a Marketing Director creating web sites for The Sinclair Institute in 2002. ScentTrail Marketing is Martin's popular marketing blog and Twitter feed. Martin is a graduate of The Choate School and Vassar College.