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Tech Tip: Turn business cards into contacts and LinkedIn connections instantly with this great iPhone app.
Thanks to LinkedIn iPhone users now have a great way to turn business cards into real contacts. Rather than spending hundreds of dollars on a business card scanning machine and loading up software to your computer, iPhone users can now download the CardMunch App for free and immediately start scanning business cards using the phone itself.
What do you get?
CardMunch is a very quick and easy way for turning the peoples contact details contained on business cards into an electronic database of contacts. From there you can now add these contact details to your phones address book, and even instantly invite them into your LinkedIn network.
How do they do it?
Would you believe that a global team immediately comes together to make this work for you? Its true, check out this process (and it only takes seconds):
- You start up the CardMunch App.
- You place a business card on the table, and use the App to take a photo of the business card.
- You approve the business card pic, and its instantly send around the globe to a team of real people who view the picture and transcribe the details for you.
- The transcription comes back to you (amazingly quickly sometimes in even seconds) and you approve the contact, or have the choice to send it back for re-transcription.
- Once you have the electronic contact, CardMuch then gives you tools to add it to your contacts to your iPhone's Address Book, LinkedIn Network, etc.
For the Advanced
If you have hosted email and contacts such as Microsoft Exchange or Google Apps, and have synced your contacts with your iPhone, then using CardMunch to add contacts to your iPhones Address Book should then sync with your online contacts list. What a great way to build up your email contacts!
Where do you go?
You can:
- Search the iPhone App store for CardMunch; or
- Head to CardMunch's website
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