posted by Andrew Hartley - Business Consultant & Entrepreneur on Oct 23
The following is a paid review, but is completely my own opinion and is not at all influenced by being paid.
Scan2Contacts (business card reader) Review
If you are an entrepreneur, or even if you just go to very many seminars, you amass many business cards, of which there is no good way to organize and sort in such a way as to be able to find the information when you need it. Besides just throwing them all in a shoebox, I’ve tried those little plastic insert pages where you can insert 12 cards or so and then put them in a 3-ring binder. That works fairly well, but I don’t take the binder with me when I travel, so if I run into someone who could use one of my contact’s services, I have to make myself a note and hopefully remember what it was all about when I get back home, then dig through the binder to find the information, then type it all out in an e-mail and send it.
What a pain!
Scan2Contacts gives another option to add to the shoebox and 3-ring binder solutions. I have seen other business-card scanners, and they all seem to do similar things, but Scan2Contacts is the first one I have seen that allows you to scan the card directly into Microsoft Outlook - which is a great benefit for the vast majority of companies who use Outlook as their email client.
Take a look at Scan2Contacts cute demo, which shows how the system works to get the info into Outlook (as well as illustrating the frustration of users before the scanning solution).
I’ve seen other scanners, and they work well, but if you use MS outlook, Scan2Contacts doesn’t look as if it can be beat for simple efficiency! Use it as a tool to increase your social capital!
Fair Winds,
Andrew
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