News and advice for smallBusiness Owners. Included profiles of smallBusiness Owners, detailing the challenges theyve faced and successes theyve achieved;. Validation and coverage. Focus on our customers. I think that set us free. The companys growth started relatively slow, until the decision they made to offer a free version of the product, one of the First Companies to capitalize on the premium model. We were at 100,000 customers at the time, then A Million And Three million. Today, they have 18 million customers, and, no surprise, the founders have gotten tantalizing offers, including one to buy the company for 1 billion, cash. And you said i said no thank you. They met to discuss the pr proposition. That lasted 15 minutes. I have enough money, how about you . Yeah, i have enough. But, this would be more. But i dont need more, do you need more . No. Something happens when employees
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Getting coverage. Lets just focus on our customers and i think that set us free. The companys growth started relatively slow. Until the decision they made to offer a free version of the product. One of the First Companies to capitalize on the free model. We were at maybe 100,000 customers at a time and within a year we were at a million and within another year we were at 3 million. And they kept on growing. Today the company has 18 million customers and no surprise, the founders have gotten some tantalizing offers including one to buy the company for A Billion Dollars cash. And you said . I said no, thank you. Ben says he and dan did meet to discuss the proposition. That lasted maybe 15 minutes. You know, when Something Like i have enough money, how about you . Yeah, i ive got enough. But this would be more. But i dont need more. Do you need more . No. Something happens when employees join and it gets
from his competitors who manufacture overseas. Ben clark doesnt mince words. I want t
from his competitors who manufacture overseas. ben clark doesn t mince words. i want to win. f i want to own the market. i want to be the player and that s what s driving me. his fight is personal, backing down is not an option. i have everything wrapped up in the business. this is not a hobby. i ve moved my family here and said we can make it in the cookie cutter business. the owner of ann clark limited, the largest manufacture of cookie cutters in the u.s. runs his company knowing that full way that for his brand to succeed someone else has to falter. every new business that s successful, some other business has to fail. which is why ben has his sights set on the competition. he wants to steal their customers. we can say it 87 different ways but ultimately when we re winning, somebody s losing. for us to grow our market we re going after our chinese competitors. so we re trying to get their business. and that s become our strategy.
survive, ben knows mail chimp has to be about more than just mail. we are going from act one to act two. we have done well in the e-mail world. the brand is helping small businesses build their brand and grow. i never thought of us as just an e-mail company. we are. we started that way. if e-mail did die, fall off a cliff or something, we would figure something else out. the white house recently hosted business owners from across the country for the made in america product showcase. ben clark of ann clark cookie cutters in vermont had the chance to meet vice president mike pence and talk about the company s success. all of the cookie cutters are made in the usa. when we met ben, he told us how he was doing everything in his power to win over more of the market from competitors who manufacture overseas.
overseas from corporations who did manufacture overseas. we want them to bring that money back and bring it back and invest in plant and equipment. right now they pay up to a 35% rate. and then we zero out all the obama regulations that cost businesses over $100 million a year, repeal them all. the president can do that. we may have to replace some of them. but we can repeal some of these crushing regulations. so that s the zero, zero, zero approach. and it s focused on something that even ed schults would love, which is to get these manufacturing jobs. if ed schultz can support this plan, then you can see that industrial state democrats will do the same, and we ll pass something and bring the country together. everybody says, what are you going to do to bring the country together? well, you put forth a plan that s conservative in nature, that s principled to reduce tax rates, but can get the support of bipartisan support to pass. rick, let me ask you about herman cain s plan.