CloudContacts Blog

We continue to add more options for exporting your business card contacts based on customer feedback. Today I am excited to announce our newest export option – iContact! iContact provides email marketing services for small and mid-sized businesses.

After you login to your CloudContacts account, you will see the new iContact option on the left menu. Just select the iContact file and import it into your iContact account and instantly you will expand your email marketing userbase and maximize the value of your business card contacts.

You can learn more about the suite of email marketing services iContact provides here.

We are working to add more options for using your business card contacts — if you have a company you would like to recommend we add as an integration partner, send an email to the CloudContacts team.

Starbucks coffee is offering a variety of business card designs for free. The cards appear to be more for fun than for business but are cute nonetheless. You can only add a name, phone number and email. You are also required to select a job title from a list which includes: CEO of everything, The One In Charge, That Guy, BossLady, BossMan and more.

After you enter the data, you select one of four business card designs. Once all of the data passes your quality assurance check, you can choose to have the cards printed and mailed to your home or office.  You can also select to print the cards immediately although if you select this option, there appears to be no way to go back and select the mail option.

You can create your own business card here. It will be interesting to see how long it takes before one of these free business cards arrives in a CloudContacts customer bundle for us to scan and transcribe.

Google’s head of webspam and popular tech blogger, Matt Cutts, wrote a blog post today that looks at a variety of startp ideas. Matt shows a photo of a bag of business cards and then notes, “Pile of business cards -> CloudContacts” as the way to take care of the issue. He also lists a variety of other pain points and services that were created to soften the pain.

Some of the other listed services include: Amazon S3 as an external hard drive, Mint for bank statements, EyeFi for simple camera photo uploads, and Pandora for the music system. So awesome to be included in such a top notch Internet services list.

Thanks to Matt for the CloudContacts mention – the team is smiling ear-to-ear that we are on Matt’s radar!

And to all of the new visitors and customers visiting via Matt’s blog post – welcome. Feel free to check some of our customer reviews and don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Our business card scanning and transcription service was featured this morning on the 37Signals product blog. One of our many export formats allows you to easily export your contacts from CloudContacts and import them into the 37Signals Highrise CRM as contacts.

Welcome 37Signals readers! Let us know if you have any questions about CloudContacts and you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

I can now check off one item on my bucket list.

I am excited to announce the first phase of our referral system has gone live today. If you are a current CloudContacts customer, you can earn free business card scanning and transcription credits by referring others to CloudContacts. When you login to  your account, click the Earn Free Credits option on the left menu. You can grab a regular link which is perfect for email. You can also share CloudContacts on the social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz. Lastly you can grab a banner to place on your blog or website.

If you are interested in promoting CloudContacts on your blog or website but are not yet a customer, send us an email. We are currently looking for affiliate partners.