CloudContacts Now Turns Handshakes into Salesforce Leads

When it comes to sales, I know one thing for sure: I am an absolute zero in sales. Fortunately, my work is not related to sales – I’m sure I would have starved if I had to sell something to support myself. I have tried to sell a piece of software once amidst the recent recession as a form to diversify income sources – and failed miserably so instead of diversification I just got a huge number of wasted hours.

And since people tend to admire the qualities that they don’t possess, I definitely admire sales people and their mysterious talents of persuading others into buying something that they sometimes don’t even need.

Since I do admire them, I definitely think that they deserve the best in software, web and mobile applications to boost their productivity. Now CloudContacts, the innovative business card scanning service that we initially reviewed here, makes yet another step to further simplify things for salespeople by launching their integration with Salesforce.

As CloudContacts users know, this innovative service is the simplest way to get one’s business cards online and use the newly acquired contact information to quickly connect to people on the most important social networks like LinkedIn or Twitter or in desktop software like Outlook. Now CloudContacts goes one step further and integrates the service with Salesforce.

The integration works by quickly turning contacts from the scanned business cards already in the user account immediately into Salesforce leads – saving valuable time for the sales people. Of course CloudContacts will not help in the entire process of converting leads but simplifying the first step is immensely helpful given that you won’t need to upload the contacts manually at all. The entire process takes a few seconds, so networking at industry events and conferences now becomes way more efficient!

This new feature is launched just before the Salesforce Dreamforce conference next week and is free for all the users of CloudContacts. In other news, CloudContacts is not only adding new useful features but is also growing rapidly as they report more than doubling the number of cards processed year on year and having customers from nearly every country in the world! If you still scan your cards manually, take a closer look at CloudContacts, this might be just the right tool.

Full disclosure: Allen, the owner of CloudContacts, is a friend.