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Why am I smiling you ask?

September 30th, 2008 | by Amanda

…Because I’m not wearing any pants! One of the things our customers consistently comment on are the chimp’s random quotes on the account dashboard page. On more than one occasion, in fact, people have told us that they sit patiently and refresh the dashboard page just to see what the chimp will say next.

Slap me some skin! Oh wait, I dont have hands!

Our belief in life and in email has always been that approaching things with a sense of humor makes them more fun. And we’re glad to have great customers who appreciate our jokes.

In lieu of the upcoming MailChimp site redesign (oh yes folks, just you wait), we’re giving Frederick Von Chimpenheimer IV a broader arsenal of witty things to say. And who better to submit ideas than you, our brilliantly innovative users?

We want you to submit your ideas, and in exchange for your crafty quips you could win a MailChimp t-shirt! Oh yes, and let us not forget the ultimate prize– to have your words flow freely from the mouth of the MailChimp.

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14 Comments

    • Michael Haydel says:

      Is it just one entry per person/address/etc.?

      Or, can we submit as many ideas as we’ve got?

    • jdrassatl says:

      Quit monkeyin’ and send an email (or two).
      Been hangin’ around waitin’ on you. Welcome back!
      What’s the good word? (email)
      Wow, I’ve missed you.
      How you like my train conductor’s lid?
      Chimps don’t email people. People email people.
      Welcome home, Mr. Top Banana.
      You should see the mascots we DIDN’T pick!
      I’m feeling a little frisky today.
      If I weren’t helping you send emails, I’d be in movies.

    • amanda says:

      We opted not to set up too many rules for the contest in an attempt not to over-think things. In the interest of fairness, try to limit your submissions to your top three. Reasonable?

    • Lindsay says:

      “I’m way more fun than a barrel of monkeys”

    • Michael Haydel says:

      3 entries per person sounds like a good idea.

      And, I’m assuming also that we must use the form, as opposed to commenting here, right?

    • amanda says:

      thanks for all the great ideas! just in case you missed it, the link to the online submission form is– http://mailchimp.wufoo.com/forms/you-know-where-you-are-youre-in-the-jungle/

      you should definitely submit your monkey quotes using the form so that we can reward you with a t-shirt!

    • Michael Haydel says:

      Now, I don’t guess it’d be possible to provide us with a list of all the chimpisms currently in place is it?

      Sure, I could sit there and refresh the page to get them all, but, ya know, that’s kinda tedious. ;-)

      I suppose I just want to make sure I don’t suggest one that’s already in there!

    • Ben says:

      The Apocalypse Now quote is awesome. We need a col. kilgore hat for the chimp.

    • Neil says:

      sorry to be the party pooper, but I still want the option to turn this off! Demo’ing the site to the suits that pay the bills is made much more difficult when there is a cartoon monkey making comments about my clothing! The suits find it hard to take the site seriously….

    • Ben says:

      @Neil – We’ve discussed this. Want you to know we totally understand your situation, and are thinking about it. It’s honestly very low on our priority list to “turn off the funny” but we’re thinking about offering a checkbox in your account settings called “party poopers are watching” or something (funny) like that, which would just make MailChimp say, “Welcome to MailChimp, Neil.” Hmm, maybe he can say something businessy instead? Like random stock quotes? Feel free to submit some un-funny quotes too.

    • Henrik says:

      That is hilarious Ben. Stock quotes would really get the suites going. (Accept for the time beeing anyways) The “shutting ut the chimp” feature could come in handy in the situation Neil is describing though. :)

    • Steve says:

      Does this hat make my bum look big?

    • Nicole says:

      The creepy thing about the sayings is sometimes they are right… like “New hair cute? Muy guapo!” My boss had just gotten that new haircut yesterday…

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