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Luke Thomas

Luke Thomas

I'm a Mainer in technology who likes growing internet companies and sharing stories about what I learn along the way. Also reading, soccer, and experimenting.

The Problem with Inbound Marketing (and how to fix it)

Over the past few years, Inbound Marketing has become very popular. Companies like Hubspot are building full-scale applications around providing ebooks, blog posts, and white papers on topics in order to drive leads. Compared to cold-calls, inbound marketing is gold, but there’s a better way. It’s called premium

How to Land a Job at a Startup (Even if you live in the middle of nowhere)

I’m graduating in a month, and packing my bags and moving to Boston for a gig at a tech startup [https://www.boundless.com/]. It’s a dream job for me – I’ll be doing a mix of marketing and development work while going after a greedy industry that

Tips to Find and Validate Potential Customers

A couple months ago I wrote an article on simple ways to find potential customers online [http://lukethomas.com/simple-ways-to-find-potential-customers/], and it picked up some traction, so I decided to expand and write a few more tips and tricks I’ve learned recently. Enjoy! Find Demand If you break down

Running Marketing Experiments with Purpose

Over the past few years, marketing on the web has become way too much fun. I remember trying to figure out what “hits” on awstats [http://awstats.sourceforge.net/] meant in high school, and I distinctly can recall how disappointed I was when I found out the true meaning. Nowadays,

Designers & Developers have Style Guides. Marketers should too

I’ve been learning to program for the past couple years [http://lukethomas.com/thoughts-while-learning-ruby-on-rails/], and I’ve been exposed to style guides. For those of you who don’t know, a style guide is a framework of how code is organized. It’s also used to onboard new hires,

From Sublime to vim. I'm Starting to Believe

Over the past couple years I’ve been trying to teach myself how to program. It’s not easy, but I’ve also found that my experience working my way through a file was subpar. Jumping lines, selecting and deleting lines of text. I used my mouse. It was slow.

Verizon HTC Droid DNA Review

After reviewing the Samsung Galaxy Siii [http://lukethomas.com/verizon-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review-from-an-average-user/] , I had the opportunity to test out the Droid DNA. At first I hated it. I thought it was useless compared to the Siii. I’ve been testing this phone for a month now, and my opinion has changed slightly.