Tweets like this one tend to grab our attention:

Thanks to @MailChimp and a well-placed iPad w/ Chimpadeedoo, have a client that’s gone from 250 subscribers to 10,000 in one year.Love it.

— Armin Ghazi (@ask_armin) February 6, 2012

Delighted with Armin Ghazi’s results, Ben suggested I reach out to him to get the full story. Ghazi used to run a Monkey Joe’s Parties & Play in North Carolina. While there, he set up a MailChimp account for the establishment, and eventually decided to strike out on his own, opening an IT consulting and email-marketing practice.

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Autoresponders offer a great opportunity for engaging your subscribers over an extended period of time. You may have heard of this strategy referred to as drip marketing, but it doesn’t necessarily just refer to a series of campaigns that extend forward into infinity. It can actually work particularly well in the context of counting down to a special date, like a wedding or the birth of a child. So let’s take a look at how you’d set up this type of campaign using MailChimp’s autoresponders.

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Our little Chimpadeedoo project has getting a lot of interest (as well as his brother, Chimpadeedee). When we first launched it, the most common request was for custom backgrounds. Done:

and the Mobile Lab is still chugging away at more updates, so stay tuned!

also see: Gmonkeys, an upcoming iPhone app form MailChimp

Update: When we released Chimpadeedee, iPads were new fangled Star Trekish devices and not readily available or accessible to a lot of people or businesses. Over the last several years, more than 84 million iPads have been sold and they’ve become a household name. That being said, we’ve decided to wrap up support for Chimpadeedee and put that focus into Chimpadeedoo for iPad and Chimpadeedoo for Android tablets.

A little while ago we launched Chimpadeedoo, our first iPad app. It’s a simple way to collect email addresses at your store register, at an arts & craft fair, trade show, or any event, with an iPad. No wifi or Internet access necessary. It stores subscriptions locally, then syncs up with MailChimp whenever you’re back online.

One of the biggest requests we received after launching was to make the app available on a laptop, not just an iPad.  And since the nerds in the lab were itching for an excuse to play with Adobe AIR, we bring you Chimpadeedee. It’s the same as Chimpadeedoo, but it’ll run on your computer.

Here are some screenshots…

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Roughly 3 weeks ago we launched Chimpadeedoo, a MailChimp app for iPad, and it’s already been downloaded over 1,000 times. So first off, we wanted to say thanks for all your support and feedback! We’re glad to hear that you’re enjoying the app and thinking of innovative uses for it.

Now that version 1.1 is live in the app store, I wanted to mention just a couple noteworthy things that we haven’t blogged about yet.

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