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I’m ditching my business card pile

Started by Christopher S. Penn · 8 months ago

I’ve been to a lot of conferences.
I’ve gotten a lot of people’s business cards.
I’ve been less than perfect about managing them all.

Today I’ve hooked up with a company that is going to handle it from now on.
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8 comments

Pistachio
8 months ago

With my Scansnap, I don't mind the scanning anymore. Plus I depend on Twitter for mass connections, and hand extract a few cards here and there where I truly need full information for immediate follow-ups. The piece that is missing for me is the post-scanning data review, to be sure the scan was correct. Does this service include that?

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Christopher S. Penn
8 months ago

I'll know soon. They just sent me the first envelope to mail my crate of stuff in!

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katie schwartz
8 months ago

What a great idea! I love that.

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Richard Mondello
8 months ago

Remember to recycle!

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JP
8 months ago

Funny you wrote this post now -- as I sit here with mini-piles of categorized biz cards all over my desk, doing data entry. In order to tie most of the faces I met at #nms08 to the cards, I am also conducting searches on LinkedIn to see photos and then creating a note for myself. Wonder if the service includes photo attachments? Thanks for sharing this resource!

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GracePiper
8 months ago

Great idea. I dread the logging in of Biz cards. Brogan's right (via Twitter) very cute photo of you. :)

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Ari Herzog
8 months ago

Pardon my ignorance here, but when one's business card (for the most part) is the Google search engine and everything it brings up, where's the purpose in scanning a piece of paper? Do you build a CRM database with it for listserv emails or such?

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