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I'm toying with a slightly different format for this month's newsletter. Lots of pictures...

MailChimp Family Is Growing
Since we started in April 2000, we've always bootstrapped and grown organically. We've avoided hiring until we absolutely needed it, and even then, only after we did it ourselves until it was painful. I'm not saying I recommend that approach (you risk burnout) but it's worked for us so far. Now, we're at over 20 much-needed people, and 4 more are starting this Monday. Let's introduce them...

Redd

Redd actually joined us a while ago, but has always managed to escape the camera until today. Gotcha! She's originally from England, and has the most wonderful Britishlanta accent you've ever heard. She's an actress, usability blogger, and a BRILL-yant MailChimp Expert.

Amy

Amy joins our marketing team. Oh yeah, did I mention we just formed a marketing team? She got our attention with her super-positive attitude, and we knew we just had to hire her. She's also a member of the deadly Atlanta Roller Girls. So we kinda tread lightly around her.

Fabio

Fabio has joined James in our Design Lab. Oh, did I mention we just started a Design Lab? He's an awesome web designer and certified car nut. He'll soon be joined by 2 more amazing designers (but that's for another newsletter).

Usability Testing
Aarron Walter, our User Experience dude, has been meeting with MailChimp customers to do a little usability testing on some cool new upgrades to our list creation process.
Rick from cytatlanta.com

Above: Aarron and MailChimp user Rick, from cytatlanta.com, before doing some usability testing.

If you're interested in doing a little usability testing with Aarron, let him know (aarron@ is his email). You might even run into Aarron during a live chat --- he sneaks in every once in a while to take questions from users.

More Video Goodness
Josh, our in-house video guy and MailChimp Academy Professor, has been playing around a lot with green screens. Below, he's doing something funky with a floating picture frame. I hear it has something to do with this.
Josh's green screens

Speaking of videos, check out this awesome short Josh just did, showcasing MailChimp customer Octane Coffee:

and we're always adding more MailChimp tutorials to the Academy. If you'd like, you can subscribe to our video podcast in iTunes.

Office Expansion
We just added about 3,000 SF of office space (on the floor below us) to accommodate the new marketing and design teams I mentioned above. We're trying to build a creative and collaborative environment for the teams that will interact w/each other the most. Speaking of environment, check out the latest work Chris Hamer (local artist) did around our break room:
break room art

Finally, check out these MailChimp Plushie prototypes from DarcyArts:

We think we'll be giving plushies away along with these wrestling belts for the upcoming APIE Awards.

Till next time,

The MailChimp Team.

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MailChimp was recently featured on Inc.com alongside Skype and Amazon as a top "cheap or free" tool for startups. What a nice surprise!

We sponsored a recent SwissMiss CreativeMorning, featuring Khoi Vinh, NYTimes Creative Director (and MailChimp user).

Looks like they had a great turnout, and Tina (Ms. SwissMiss) tells us the MailChimp t-shirts we sent were very well-received. Makes me wish I lived in NYC.

Attending Internet Retailer 2009 Conference in Boston next week? Join Magento alongside Rackspace and MailChimp. Details...

What's Magento? A super cool ecommerce platform that you can integrate w/MailChimp.

We're proud to be a sponsor (along with Zappos) of Mashable's Summer of Social Good.

Amanda

Speaking of Mashable, we also co-sponsored the Atlanta Mashable-Regator party back in May. Super fun.

Above is Amanda (our Chief Twitter Officer) schmoozing at the event. Photo courtesy of local entreprenur Mike Schinkel who hosts the awesome AWE Meetup and runs NewClarity.net. Thanks, Mike!

More pics from the event here and here.

MailChimp Labs
We just launched a couple new experiments in the MailChimp Lab:

Pictaculous
Take a picture and email it to us. We'll reply back with the hex color values, some suggested Kuler themes, and an Adobe color palette.

One of our projects got featured in the Google Labs for our API integration with Analytics. If you've never heard of it, our Google Analytics integration is an easy way to link MailChimp with your Google Analytics account, so you can see exactly how much traffic and revenue your email campaigns are generating.

We're proudly sponsoring TechDrawl.com, a local showcase for innovation in the southeast. We've placed a MailChimp Labs intro in all the videos on their site, as a way to attract local talent. Because yes, we're hiring.

If you're a nerd, and you want to work at a place where you can experiment with new technology, supercomputers, and not be around stupid people, apply within.

Case Studies
Check out some of these cool new MailChimp customer case studies:

Shawnimals

Brickworkz

Want to be a featured Case Study? Just answer this questionnaire and we'll be in touch!

Symbolism?

This random little tree just started growing outside Juliana's window last year. We weren't sure it would last, but now it's really going through a growth spurt. As you can see, it's sprouted from the mortar between the bricks. Juliana has named him Stanley Tucci. We'll keep you updated.

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