How Covid Has Given Rise To Smart Business Cards

The Rise of Smart Business Cards in Pandemic

“Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.”- Sun Tzu

Smart business cards have grown in popularity over the last couple of years, especially when the global pandemic of covid-19 wreaked havoc in many countries across the globe.

When every person we know is avoiding handshakes, would you want to give or receive germ-infested paper cards? Not at all! It’s not worth risking your life for.

As highly infectious covid-19 consumed millions of lives around the world and left us in despair, businesses of every size and scale have had to quickly shift towards alternative ways of working i.e. remote work.

While many countries have allowed businesses to resume normal operations, many companies and individuals still continue to work remotely to keep themselves, their families, and the community on the safe side.

No one can predict with certainty when covid-19 would disappear from the scene as its vaccinations are still under trial. Health experts have made it clear- maintaining social distance is the most effective and reliable way to counter covid-19.

Be it business owners, self-employed people, or marketing and sales professionals, moving out to forge new connections and maintain existing ones was next to impossible during lockdown – no more conferences and meetings.

The dilemma was – how to keep the ball rolling during covid-19 and continue networking? All of a sudden, those using traditional paper business cards found them useless; you cannot give them away when you cannot meet someone physically.

COVID-19 and Paper Business Cards – The Infeasible Relationship

Paper business cards have been doing the job for businesses and working professionals for decades. Not taking any credit away, they did their job quite well until technology and digitization offered a more quick, accurate, reliable, and eco-friendly way of doing things, including business networking through smart business cards.

In a dynamic business environment, sticking to outdated visiting cards is not the wisest of decisions you make for growing your connections list. With the widespread use of social distancing and online searching, digital business cards go a long way in helping millions of professionals e-connect from the comfort of their homes.

Paper business cards have been in the line of fire for a long time. They are outdated, inconvenient, expensive, and contribute to environmental degradation. Moreover, paper visiting cards take much time to be designed, printed, and updated.

When people are hooked onto their phones most of the time for both casual surfing and work-related purposes, why not exchange information at the tap of the smart business card to share relevant information within seconds?

Paper business cards are losing preference amongst people, slowly but surely. Once you use NFC enabled digital business cards, you’ll find no reason to continue with paper business cards.

COVID-19 and Smart Business Cards – Synonymous With Each Other

Fortunately, creative minds tend to come up with innovative ideas in the face of adversity. In came smart NFC enabled plastic smart business cards and working professionals from various industries took a sigh of relief.

They now had a digital visiting card to share their contact information, and the best thing was they need not go anywhere to do it. You can share your professional details (social media links, email, contact, UPI payment links & website links) with others without face-to-face, in-person meetings.

All you need to do is tap your smart business cards on other phones (Android and latest iPhones) to share contact numbers, social media links & other information desired to be shared by you.

The other way of sharing your information is by sharing your profile via scanning the QR code or your profile link with your name in it. Can it get any easier than this? Of course, not!

There’s No Better Place For Your Business Contacts Than Your Cell Phone

86% of business cards are thrown away within a week of you giving them. And you thought you were doing your business good? Another misconception is deleted from your brain as you read this.

Who like to search around for a paper business card when one can have all the information on their phones? We trust our devices to store and sort all our crucial information better than we do.

Smart business card like iTappit allow all your contact information to be saved on the phone (and on the cloud), which means people can always access it when they want it.

Your privacy matters and your profiles don’t show on search engines. You are not asked for your social media passwords and you control who you’d like to include in your profile.

Another wonderful feature of nfc enabled business cards is that they can be tapped on most Android phones and newer iPhones. Non-NFC phones can scan the QR code to access your profile.

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The Bottom Line

As we continue to grow our network while avoiding contact, using smart business cards is the need of the hour. And it’s not only about embracing digitization, it’s also about acting more responsibly towards environment conservation by using technology.

Let’s hit two targets with one shot – share your contact information digitally while contributing to a sustainable, greener environment.

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy.