Business cards are really important. They're an essential way that people share contact info. But contact info is no longer stored in a rolodex, it's in your email and phone contact list. Wouldn't it be great if there was a simple way to allow people to add your contact info to their electronic lists without having to type it in?
Well there's an easy way, using QR codes and vCards. Here's a QR code that I've added to back of my business card:
Scan it and you'll get to a page that looks like this:
This page contains all of my conventional contact info as well as links to social media. There's a link to 'Download vcard'. On a Blackberry, clicking on this will prompt you to save my info into the phone's contact list - which will then sync back through Exchange into Outlook.
On an iphone, the website is displayed slightly differently. The iphone does not allow for the downloading of vCard files through the Safari browser. We've got a work around whereby a user can send the vcard to themselves. Visiting the site on an iphone looks like this.
Once you get the email, you can save the attachment directly into your contact list.
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