Until 2009, when Mailchimp's userbase exploded from 85k to 450k users in one year.
These 3 tactics led to Mailchimp's growth 🧵
1. Free Forever Plan
In 2009 Mailchimp introduced their “Free Forever Plan” where users could use Mailchimp for free, forever, until they reached 2000 subscribers on their email list.
This gave users not only a taste-test of MailChimp as software but it also gave users the groundwork to start building their email list.