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  Tuan Nguyen · February 24, 2012 at 10:46 am

  Hi Bob,

  Great article on business cards and what is the quickest and easiest way to saving someone’s contact info. Seems to be a growing pain in the butt since storage media of contact info has evolved from Rolodex, Outlook, Gmail, BlackBerry, iPAD and everything in between. The method to save contact info is even more convoluted as we go digital. First the classic vCards only support Outlook or Mac address book. QR codes use to automate the import to mobile devices are limited, as you need to install an app plus depending on which OS you created the QR code from, your contact information may not be able to download to other mobile OS. Then there are a series of apps that scan and capture business cards that you have mentioned. A couple of thinks I did find with these apps was that there is a low adoption rate due to the following; users need to first download and create an account for these apps, then are the apps supported by all four major Smartphone (BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone) plus my experience with the processing time has been days to get a digitalize card back.

  Having said all that, I think my biggest concern is why don’t companies make it quick and easy for their customers to communicate with them by providing a universal method that saves their contact information to any of their customers desktop, web and mobile address book plus their customers do not need to install/signup to any app/service.

  I work for ContactMonkey.com and have been showing companies how to provide such a service to their customers. Why should your customers finds ways to save your contact info, you should be making it easy for them.

  Bob, it would be great to hear your feedback on our software-as-a-service contact card. You can try my card http://www.contactmonkey.com/tuan from your desktop and mobile device.

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