Dig the treasure on visiting cards with Contactous

Visiting Cards?

What is so special about it?

If this is the question asked to you, what would you answer or how would you react?

To me, visiting card(s) are like a Gold Mine. In the first place, it is given to you only when you meet a person face to face which establishes the first point of contact and a rapport being built then and there. All you need later is to just flash the card and recollect the event where it was given to you.

This eases lot of things which includes and not limited to the ones mentioned below:

1) You do not have to waste your time and also the time of the client which are real precious. 

2) You do not need an introduction, necessarily.

3) You do not have to search for contact numbers to connect with a particular client, vendor, prospect.

Now that I had explained the above aspects, there is one other thing which needs to be noted. Despite going digital, majority of us still continue to use visiting cards which shows how much importance this has got till date.

Coming to the point. How many of you have visiting card holders and organizers? Not many would have it and even if they had, not all the cards would fit into one place and over a period of time, it becomes bulky and starts consuming the space.

Agree?

This is where Contactous comes into picture. 

What is special about this company?

You all would have most probably heard about Digital Wallet where you store all your passwords and card information. This is something similar to that. Here you would only store details of all your visiting cards. Sounds interesting? Continue to read further.

The quality information that is sourced from various sources can be built effectively into a database. Since it is a database, you can segregate the information accordingly. For example - You can store data of Vendors, Suppliers, Departments etc.,

A survey says that 90% of the companies do not have the system to manage this precious data since receiving visiting cards is an on-going process. It also says 9 out of 10 companies has either fallen into the below mentioned categories when it comes to having the business cards:

1. Forgotten - No one in the company has an idea about existence of the business card.

2. Out of sight - The company knows it is there but do not know where exactly it is.

3. Taken out of office - The business card is with the employees who has already quit the company.

4. Used by others - Your agent collects it on your behalf but you have not received it.

The above factors are really critical to be addressed at the earliest since your company might be losing out on potential businesses, big time.

Contactous uncovers quality leads and provide actionable relationship intelligence to your organization by collecting accurate data from the business cards.

The data is stored in a secured server which is customised to one's needs. 

How the data is captured?

The data is entered manually by the company. Even the handwritten notes are captured as it is.

The relationships can be mapped and social networks can be studied.

What are the benefits?

The social feeds of your contacts are easily accessible.

Data is stored in centralized location.

You do not have about losing your card or it is being worn out due to usage.

Can be used as an effective CRM Tool for all campaigns.

It can connect you to external sources and data can used to analyse and compare.

What do you need to to?

Just 1 step is all you need to do. Capture the photo of the business card. That's it.

Interested? Head over straight to Contactous now.