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How teams actually turn a business card into a customer, and what changes when the card is digital.
- How it works
Does a tap card work on every phone
Nearly every phone sold in the last several years can read an NFC card. The failures are almost never the phone. They are a case, a setting, or the wrong part of the back of the handset.
- Cost
What paper business cards actually cost over three years
A box of cards looks cheap. Three years of a real team, with the promotions, the moves and the number changes, produces a different figure and a worse one, because the expensive part is not the printing.
- Security
What happens if you lose the card
The card holds a link, not your contact details. Whoever finds it sees the same public profile anyone you handed it to would see. The real question is what you chose to put on that profile.
- Etiquette
When not to tap
There are rooms where reaching for a phone is the wrong move, and reading that correctly is a business skill. Four situations where paper still wins, and why carrying both is not a compromise.
- Japan
What a digital card has to respect to work in Japan
The exchange in Japan carries meaning that has nothing to do with data transfer. Here is what the ritual protects, and the specific places a digital card helps without touching any of it.
- Operations
Rolling digital cards out to a sales team without it becoming an IT project
A rollout fails on ownership, on the profile being empty, on the departure question, and on nobody knowing when to tap. All four are decidable in an afternoon.
- Events
What a trade show booth actually produced, and how to know
Cards collected is an activity number, not a result. Three measurements that tell you whether a booth was worth the money, and how to capture them without slowing the conversation down.
- Product
What belongs on a digital profile, and what quietly kills the follow up
Paper cards were disciplined because there was no room. Remove the constraint and most people add everything. What actually belongs on the profile, and what to cut.
- Sales
Where your leads actually die after the card exchange
The card exchange is not the problem. The gap between the exchange and the first useful follow up is, and it has three failure points you can name.
One card. Every contact, always current.
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