Save your time with business card mobile
apps!
During an event
or after a negotiation, the traditional way to keep contact with clients
consisted in exchanging a lot of business cards. It was really useful but it took time after
the event to collect and classify these data on an excel sheet. Today, the arrival
of IT mobile apps enables to reply effectively to this need in a smarter way.
Some applications like Bloodhound offer companies and event organisers a new
service: business cards mobile apps.
Bloodhound is
mobile application that will help businessman on trade show or during meeting
to collect faster data by taking a picture of the business card and to receive
a database on a proper excel sheet post-event.
Bloodhound SWOT
analysis
|
Strengths
|
Weaknesses
|
|
Ø Gain of time post event: in
order to create a database
Ø Adaptable to all kind of
smartphone (IOS & Android)
Ø No WiFi needed to use the app
Ø Free app without extension
Ø No mix with your
phone contact: it goes directly to your dashboard app.
Ø Merging data: One dashboard per
company for all sellers.
Ø Easy connectivity
with the CRM of the company
Ø Sustainable: less waste of
paper
|
Ø Cost: service
extension of $30/ month
Ø Impersonalised
contact due to the standardisation of business cards in the database. Because
of that, businessman might not associate well faces and contact names.
|
|
Opportunities
|
Threats
|
|
Ø Development: get into new
markets and reach new customers.
Ø Innovation: create the
possibility to add a picture in the database for a better recognition.
|
Ø
High
competition: similar
applications are totally free
Ø Invention of a product
|
Business card
mobile apps are revolutionary in terms of time saving. Moreover companies will
benefit from a sustainable advantage as business cards‘ exchanges are made
virtually through these apps.
We highly
recommend companies to use this tool to improve their efficiency, connectivity
between CRM and sellers to increase revenue.
Don’t waste time,
subscribe and take a picture!
Anne-Lucie
Talarmin & Sébastien Haag
References:
Nice one, thank you, it's very useful !!
ReplyDeleteWe saw many sales executives using that app or similar ones when in internship. But we were wondering, is there a way to do a back-up of such an application on PC, online or on external hard-driver to make sure to have a copy of all the data in case of trouble or mobile up-dating process failure? Because it could be a nightmare to lose everything, all datas collected, for a business. Thanks a lot ^^
Samantha, to answer your worries, yes there is a back-up solution. You cannot lose all your contacts.
DeleteBecause the software keep all your data. And you can have access to them through your computer with a login and password.
I hope this answer will remove you some doubts Samantha
thank you for this written answer and the one you gave me in class ;)
Delete