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Electronic Business Card

Whether exchanging them before a meeting as an obligatory act or handing them over naturally after informal talk, you can’t imagine daily business affairs without business cards. Although this etiquette has hardly changed over time in the world of business, with digitalizing a great change has come into our society.

This development had far-reaching consequences on the world of business. Typewriters gave way to computers, exchange of letters was replaced by e-mail correspondence, and tin the same manner contact data administration was consequently digitalized as well, making typewriting of business cards necessary – a time consuming procedure prone to error. In the past, several efforts were made to replace business cards by passing out contact data in other forms - usually solely electronically - and in this way do justice to the age of digitalizing. All of them failed, due to the ritual of handing one’s card out physically being firmly rooted within our society.

Therefore, Cardolution’s electronic business card is no attempt of replacing the calling card entirely - quite to the contrary, it is all about its development, its evolution. Optically, the electronic business card doesn’t differ from a classical one. On its inside, however, state-of-the-art RFID technology is imbedded to enable it to capture the information which is printed on the outside in electronic form and even add additional information. As the card’s format, the ISO 7810 standard format for credit cards (85,60mm x 53,98mm) was chosen. To make distinguishing between normal and electronic business card easy, Cardolution’s card has on its back a special imprint with an exclusive symbol: electronic business card.

Data can be read quickly and in an uncomplicated way with the USB reader stick by Cardolution and can be imported at the push of a button in a program of data administration – Outlook, for example. Furthermore, the newest generation of Smartphones is equipped with NFC, the required technology to likewise read the data off electronic business cards and save it in contact administration.

Advantages to the distributor:

• Increased chances of getting one’s data saved electronically – fast and uncomplicated import of data
• Guaranteeing for the contact data to be saved in a way free of error – no necessity of manual transfer
• Transfering of additional data – optional additional areas
• Effect for one’s image through usage of cutting-edge technologies

Advantages to the recipient:

• Saving time by electronic storage of the business card
• Avoiding errors when importing data
• Guaranteeing homogenous storage – using a standardized format

Business Card Reader Stick

With this Plug&Play capable USB stick, the data of the electronic business card can be read quickly and effortlessly. To achieve this, the card just has to be held close to the reader. Importing into Outlook, Excel or saving as vCard – the user can decide immediately at the push of a button what should happen to the data.