Email Marketing Company Emma Named Top Small Company Workplace by Inc. Magazine and Winning Workplaces
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Only Tennessee company honored
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. May 27, 2011 – Fast growing email marketing company Emma announced today that it has been named one of the 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces by Inc. magazine and Winning Workplaces. One of 50 companies nationally to be recognized, Nashville-based Emma was the only Tennessee business to make the list.
Founded in 2003, the annual contest recognizes small and mid-sized companies that attribute their business success to outstanding workplace cultures and engaged employees who deliver bottom-line results. Emma was selected out of 350 award applicants. Contest winners are featured in Inc.’s June issue and on the magazine’s website.
“We’ve built a great team – now 100 and counting – and a strong culture that, alongside the Emma brand, may be our most tangible of intangible assets,” said Clint Smith, co-founder and CEO. “We respect each other’s talents and contributions, and we enjoy pursuing challenges together. We believe that if two brains are better than one, then two Emma brains can do something ridiculously outstanding. We are truly honored to receive this award that recognizes our entire Emma team.”
Known for its entrepreneurial corporate culture that encourages all employees to contribute to the company’s success, Emma’s reputation as an attractive workplace was highlighted earlier this spring when the Nashville Business Journal named the company a “Best Place To Work.”
Senior sales associate David Weintraub, who has been with Emma for three years, says working at the company “feels like winning the lottery.”
“It's just an incredible company,” he said, “For one thing, change is embraced here instead of avoided. We are constantly evaluating how we could do things better in order to stay on top, and everybody is encouraged to be a part of moving Emma forward. People’s ideas are taken seriously, no matter what your job is, and no one is unapproachable. Everyone’s door is always open.”
Emma’s founding vision was to take something that is complex and out of reach to most people and make it simple and available to anyone. This no-nonsense approach naturally carried over to the workplace, said Sara McManigal, who heads up people development for Emma.
“We hire uniquely talented people. As they engage within Emma’s culture, they bring their distinct feelings, interests, intuitions and everything else that makes us human,” she said. “Then we do what we can to remove any hurdles that might get in their way as they do great things."
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About Emma
Emma is an email marketing service designed to help small and mid-size companies – and the agencies that serve them – engage their audiences in style. Based in Nashville, with offices in Portland, Denver, Austin and New York, Emma serves 30,000 customers scattered across North America and beyond. Emma’s 101 employees never settle for the bland, the expected or the easy. The company is out to build a product, service, brand and experience that’s uniquely Emma.
About the People Quoted in This Story:
Clint Smith
Clint is one half of Emma’s co-founding duo. A former editor with TicketMaster/CitySearch, he formed Emma with co-founder Will Weaver, formerly of Smallbusiness.com. Clint directs the brand, learns from Emma’s clients and keeps it real. He majored in history at Vanderbilt University, which he still insists was a good idea.
David Weintraub
David is a senior member of Emma’s sales staff and is a rival for the title of Biggest Mets Fan in the Office. A Brooklyn native and NYU grad, David also wields a most impressive CD collection from his years managing a Virgin Megastore and Sam Goody store in Greenwich Village.
Sara McManigal
Sara is part of Emma’s people development team, guiding Emma’s efforts to hire fabulous, talented and fabulously talented people. Sara is from Nebraska, which she claims breeds naturally fabulous people (thus her ability to spot them) and wields a degree in music business and marketing from Belmont University.
About Inc. Magazine
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. magazine is the only major business magazine dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies that delivers real solutions for today's innovative company builders. With a total paid circulation of 708,450, Inc. provides hands-on tools and market-tested strategies for managing people, finances, sales, marketing and technology.
About Winning Workplaces
Winning Workplaces is an Evanston, IL-based not-for-profit, whose mission is to help the leaders of small and mid-sized organizations create great workplaces. Founded in 2001, Winning Workplaces serves as a clearinghouse of information on workplace best practices, provides seminars and workshops on workplace-related topics and inspires and awards top workplaces through its annual Top Small Company Workplaces initiative.
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