What?! Mike Chapman, co-creator of Homestar Runner, made a MailChimp Customer Story?? Seriously?!
But… How did this happen??? Read on… Read More
One Meeeellion Users!
Posted by Amanda on
Yesterday we hit a pretty special milestone here at MailChimp HQ, and to celebrate we gave away lots and lots of MailChimp goodies. Thirteen thousand items, in fact. One million users is a great accomplishment, but we certainly couldn’t have done it without all of you. So thank you, from the bottom of our warm, furry little chimp hearts. You really are one in a million! *wink*
epic million-user cofounder chest bump
Liquidating thirteen thousand items– including MailChimp tshirts, monkey hats and plushies– is no small feat. But to do it in just 18 minutes and via the internet? Now that is impressive.
Some foosball fans in our office organized a tournament a little while back, and on August 12th it was time for their final game. It was kinda cool that they held it on our roof. That also happened to be the day that Randall, our new motion graphics guy, joined Josh over in our VideoLab.
So obviously:
I’m told they won’t be adding explosions and alien attacks to all our videos (darn), but will be working on adding some nice little touches to some of our videos, like some of the psychedelic stuff in the video here.
Introducing Social, a WordPress Plugin
Posted by Aarron on
With an active blog, Twitter feed and Facebook page conversations with customers can become a bit fragmented. Like most bloggers, we tweet and post to Facebook when we publish new posts. In a write-once-publish-many-times kind of web, commenting happens outside blogs even more than on the posts themselves. That’s why we worked with the fine folks at Crowd Favorite to create a plugin for WordPress called Social.
Love What You Do
Posted by Ben on
For 10 years, I’ve tried many times — and failed miserably — to come up with a tagline for our company. I’m not sure why it’s so hard. I guess when you build a company, you don’t want to commit to one single direction, even if it’s just for a simple marketing statement. You kinda want to keep things flexible. So I decided to just give up on taglines and slogans. Then one day, I saw a tweet from someone that said they loved MailChimp’s tagline: “Love what you do.”
What? I sure as heck didn’t remember approving that. I logged in to MailChimp and sure enough, there it was in our footer:
At first, I was a little worried because stuff like this is significant, and probably shouldn’t just pop up without someone telling me. But then again, it’s pretty spot-on, so I got over it. But I did think that as co-founder of this company, I should at least pretend to be angry and get something in return for this “rogue action…”