Blake Thorne

head of marketing at Govly

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@cpaik Man it’s the “actually” Olympics in the replies here.

I majored in journalism in 09 and spent 06-15 in print newsrooms.

The mental gymnatics and “actually this makes what I do more important” is the exact thing we said back then. These are all the same arguments it’s bizaare

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@davegerhardt You should connect with @jimmy_daly and do one of the content job opening video interviews he does

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

this is getting out of hand

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@danielcberk @RampCapitalLLC Probably this

[Ramp Capital @RampCapitalLLC]

If you’re playing golf and the shot calls for a driver or 3W off the tee and you’re hitting an iron to keep it in play, honestly just grab your purse and take up pickleball

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@searchbrat Finally a sober and measured take. So much whining from the “in the arena” crowd on this one.

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

Insurance companies love to send physical mail where the outside looks like you're being summoned to a prison sentence, and inside it's like "we added a semicolon to section 4230 in our T&Cs."

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@jasonlk 48?!

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@NikkevMarshall @stephsmithio You should hear what Stan does in the song “Guilty Conscience” 😂

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

Just had lunch with the @intercom web design team. Great crew!

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

DTC in 2014: “If we cut out the distribution middleman and ship direct, and avoid legacy ad channels, we can pass the savings onto customers.”

DTC 2024: “If we spend enough on advertising one day we can get into Target!”

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

Tell GPT to cut out the BS and it does not cut the BS, it just starts serving "youth pastor trying to be edgy"

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@theRealDanVCFA @JulieChangRE I would have guessed $3,000,001

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@KevinEspiritu @BotanicalSeeds Sunrise
Early morning
Morning sun
Bright and early
Safe start
Good start
Right start

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

A confusing modern problem for toddlers is: you can touch every screen except the TV.

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@eoghan Always thought a killer marketing stunt would be doing a riff on the 24-hour telethon just livestream it

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@JHTScherck And for god sake ATFQ. Its your job to provide context and help leadership see potential land mines, but keep it brief and ATFQ first

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@JHTScherck Q: “how’s much traffic do we get?” “What’s the conversion rate?”

A: “Well actually it’s more comple-“

Whoosh. You already lost them

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

Everything ok babe you’ve barely aligned your stakeholders

[Blake Thorne @blakethorne]

@bobbypinero 🙋‍♂️