CloudContacts Blog

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.

Just under a month ago, we launched our Social Connector service. The Social Connector takes the email address on a business card and searches a variety of social and business networks (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter, etc.) for matches. Where we find a match, we add the service username to the contact. In just the first two weeks, we found over 10,000 connections.

Last week Twitter announced at their developer conference Chirp, the release of their @Anywhere platform. Today I am excited to announce the next phase of our social CRM and Social Connector service. We’ve integrated Twitter’s new @Anywhere platform into CloudContacts. You can now connect directly to your business card contacts on Twitter. After you connect your Twitter account with your CloudContacts account which takes just a second, following a person on Twitter takes just one click. We also display which contacts you are already following. This new functionality takes a scanned business card to a whole new level of online connectivity.

Here’s what the Twitter follow page looks like within our CloudContacts demo account:

The CloudContacts Twitter @Anywhere integration is free for all CloudContacts customers. If you aren’t a customer yet, you can place an order today and join the CloudContacts family!

Today is Happy Tax Day in the U.S. It’s that exciting day each year where we realize how much money we paid out in taxes. It’s such an exciting time – stay away from the Post Office today if you don’t need to mail your taxes.

After you drop your tax forms in the mail, grab a discount on a CloudContacts business card scanning and social CRM plan. Just enter the discount code tax on our order form. The discount works for any size order and for customers anywhere in the world.

Just think about how great it will be in a week – your taxes are done and your business cards are organized and are actually creating value for you and your business!