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Rated 4.5 Stars! Mobile Strategies Webinar Now Available from LexisNexis®/Vizibility

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:56:43 -0500

Rated 4.5 Stars! Mobile Strategies Webinar Now Available from LexisNexis®/Vizibility:

Are You Mobile Friendly or a Mobile Frenemy?

Watch the recorded webinar to find out. Plus learn 5 things you can do right now.

Vizibility Releases Infographic "13 Mobile Stats Your Competitors Already Know"

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:36:16 -0500

Vizibility Releases Infographic "13 Mobile Stats Your Competitors Already Know"

Now Display Your Mobile Business Card On PCs & Tablets!

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:21:36 -0500

Now Display Your Mobile Business Card On PCs & Tablets!:

We’re excited to announce that you can now share your full Mobile Business Card on a desktop and tablet computer. When you choose to move to this new view, you can start sharing your full Mobile Business Card whenever someone clicks your Vizibility link in your online profiles, email signatures and more. They can even seamlessly text or email your Mobile Business Card to themselves!

Inc. Magazine: Vizibility is a Promising Alternative to Smartphone Contact Management Apps

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:12:25 -0500

Inc. Magazine: Vizibility is a Promising Alternative to Smartphone Contact Management Apps:

Inc. Magazine’s John Brandon reviewed the Vizibility Mobile Business Card in the February 2013 issue. His conclusion after sharing his Mobile Business Card at a major trade show: “I can rest easier knowing my contact information is safely stored in the phones of the people I meet, just a tap away.”

The Sterne Kessler Vizibility QR Code Integration

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:01:39 -0500

The Sterne Kessler Vizibility QR Code Integration

Helping Printers Evolve BurdgeCooper & Vizibility: Another Reason to Become a Marketing Services Provider

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:32:18 -0500

Helping Printers Evolve BurdgeCooper & Vizibility: Another Reason to Become a Marketing Services Provider

Re/Max Real Estate Agents Get Digital Business Cards via Passbook

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:49:36 -0500

Re/Max Real Estate Agents Get Digital Business Cards via Passbook

Goldberg Segalla’s Innovative Mobile Business Cards Highlighted by Vizibility

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:47:32 -0500

Goldberg Segalla’s Innovative Mobile Business Cards Highlighted by Vizibility

Review: NFC Powered Business Card from Vizibility (Video)

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:49:27 -0500

Review: NFC Powered Business Card from Vizibility (Video)

Passbook is for tickets, gift cards, coupons -- and now business cards

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:32:42 -0500

Passbook is for tickets, gift cards, coupons -- and now business cards

http://9to5mac.com/2012/12/04/remax-rolling-out-passbook-business-cards-for-4500-real-estate-agents-in-the-us/

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:27:08 -0500

http://9to5mac.com/2012/12/04/remax-rolling-out-passbook-business-cards-for-4500-real-estate-agents-in-the-us/

RE/MAX real estate agents to carry Passbook business cards on their iPhones

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:13:45 -0500

RE/MAX real estate agents to carry Passbook business cards on their iPhones:

RE/MAX Regional Services Taps Apple's Passbook for Business Cards

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:12:31 -0500

RE/MAX Regional Services Taps Apple's Passbook for Business Cards

http://vizibility.net/blog/power-up-your-pitch-with-the-right-online-identity-tools/

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:27:05 -0400

http://vizibility.net/blog/power-up-your-pitch-with-the-right-online-identity-tools/:

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Turn networking into results with a mobile business card.

Forming a personal connection with a prospect is the first step toward closing a deal. That’s because people prefer to buy from someone they know, like and trust. As a sales professional, you need to make it easy for people to get to know you.

It’s great if you have an “in” with a prospect through a mutual friend or trusted referral. But today, the process of making a personal connection often begins online. How many times have you Googled a prospect? How many times have you given your name over the phone and heard a prospect typing in the background to Google you? It happens all the time.

That’s why it’s critical to control your online identity and make it simple for prospects to get the right information about you at the right time. So wouldn’t it be great if your printed business cards had a way to share your complete professional web presence? Imagine being able to instantly share your background and qualifications, customer testimonials, product demonstration videos, even schedule a follow-up meeting. Suddenly one of the most passive tools used by every successful sales pro comes to life, engages and starts working for you long after you’ve left the meeting.

Mobile technologies like QR codes are a great way to share the right information and position yourself as tech-savvy when meeting prospects on the go. QR codes are the small square barcodes you see everywhere. And now they’re being used for people. Think about QR codes as digital bridges for your printed business card to your mobile business card, allowing you to wirelessly exchange information with prospects via their smartphone. Prospects and clients can instantly access your contact information, hand-picked bios, links, portfolios, videos, testimonials or other information that builds credibility and trust. And with metrics and tracking you’ll even know when they’re doing it.

There are many solution providers which can help you take control of your online identity, including social media platforms and mobile technologies like QR codes. When reviewing your choices for managing your mobile identity, make sure the tools you select are designed to support multiple users and that accounts have tracking capabilities built in so you can measure effectiveness. Some other benefits and features to consider include:

Easy setup for sales organizations of all sizes so you don’t have to distract the sales force to roll it out.
Discovering common connections or mutual interests on LinkedIn and Facebook is a great way to forge the personal link you need to power up your sales pitch.
vCard download is the best way to get into someone’s address book accurately.
Appointment scheduling to help shorten the time between initial contact and the first meeting.
Metrics with geo tracking to help find out who is viewing your mobile business card, including details such as organization name, type and location.
Real-time alerts when business cards are scanned so you know when people are engaged. Alerts can also including time, date, location and more.
Custom branding to make sure your brand carries through from your offline identity to your online identity.
Powerful administrative tools to help your organization manage and monitor all of your mobile business cards and metrics in one central location.
Integration with printers so you can get your new business cards quickly with the QR code printed properly.

Even if a prospect doesn’t have your printed business card, since more than half of all online searches now originate on a mobile device like a smartphone or tablet, it’s more important than ever to have a mobile business card that could appear in your search results. Once you build and start managing your online identity for you and your team, prospects will gain a clear vision of who you are and what your organization can offer, and you’ll be well on your way to creating the trust and respect you need to close more deals.

If you’d like to speak with us about how you or your sales team can get started with your mobile business cards, feel free to call us at 1-866-380-3400 x110. Of course you can just scan the QR code on my business card:

About the Author

James Alexander is founder and CEO of Vizibility Inc., the world’s first mobile business card platform for small, medium and large organizations. A serial technology entrepreneur, James was involved in two other successful startups and served as a product management executive at Adobe Systems prior to founding Vizibility. Google James at viz.me/james. Learn more about the company and its online identity management solutions at www.vizibility.com.

5 QR Code Lessons for Commercial Printers

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:00:57 -0400

I was recently involved in a discussion on LinkedIn with a group of commercial printers talking about the best uses of QR codes, and whether they are here to stay. In today’s increasingly digital and mobile world, it is critical that printers evaluate new technologies and find ways to remain relevant as the future becomes the present. But what are the considerations you have to take into account when offering QR codes?

Here are five lessons based on what we’ve learned from printers who are integrating our Mobile Business Card platform into their print production work flows for business cards:

1. The most important piece is the mobile experience. The way you get there is irrelevant. This mobile experience needs to work on any phone and ideally NOT require an app download (remember QR code readers are native on just about every platform so no download is required to use them). Use the features of the phone to delight. For instance, to help you remember where you met somebody, we dynamically add the location of where the QR code is scanned to the notes of the vCard before we download it to the user.

2. The debate about the longevity of QR codes is a waste of time. All good technologies die one day. A QR code is simply a digital bridge to the mobile experience. Near Field Communication (NFC) may be next. Apple is doing some interesting things in iOS 6 called Passbook. The question to be debated is: “Do you believe that there will be useful technologies that enable someone to easily go from a print piece to an online experience that buyers of print services will want?” If your answer is yes, then go get smart about current and future technologies and the providers that you can partner with to get you there.

3. There is no money or sustainable differentiation in QR code generation. Even “branded” QR codes are redundant on a printed business card because the company’s branding is already on the card. You cannot charge for something that is free online unless you can add value to the process.

4. The good news is that printers can add tremendous value to the process. Our large company clients who buy our mobile business cards need help to ensure that the QR codes we provide them are printed properly and tested. Printers are monetizing this need and creating new annuity revenue streams around digital bridge technologies in the process (http://prn.to/ApueNg). The addition of QR codes to printed materials is also another reason for clients to go back on press.

5. For buyers of Mobile Business Cards, the ability to scale quickly, control branding and measure usage are critical. Your clients are not going to build 50 mobile business card micro websites by hand. For instance, our system can create from several to several thousand custom Mobile Business Cards instantly off the same spreadsheet (or via APIs) you already use to produce print business cards. Printers either need to create this functionality themselves or go find a partner who can do it for them.

Hope this is useful. Click here to join the discussion thread on LinkedIn.

James Alexander is Vizibility’s founder and CEO. He’s the guy with two first names. If you ‘Googled’ his name in 2009, you would never have found him. Now, he ranks within the first few results of a Google search. Find James in Google at viz.me/james.

The Economist: After many false starts, QR codes are finally taking off

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:49:47 -0400

The Economist: After many false starts, QR codes are finally taking off:

CEREAL boxes are, by and large, poor works of literature. Yet many people sit at breakfast reading them over and over again. Last year Kellogg’s realised it could make its packets more entertaining—and guessed that people also had their phones to hand (anything beats talking to the family). The cornflake-maker put 2D codes, better known as QR (for quick response) codes, on its Crunchy Nut boxes in America. When scanned, these took cereal-munchers to a video of dawn in, say, Washington state. The idea was to push cereal as an all-day snack: “It’s morning somewhere.”

Read the full article.

QR Codes Most-Used Mobile Channel For Engaging Customers

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:48:05 -0400

QR Codes Most-Used Mobile Channel For Engaging Customers:

1 in 2 company marketers say they are using QR codes to encourage their customers to interact with their brand, per results [download page] from an Econsultancy survey released in June 2012, in partnership with Responsys. QR code usage by these respondents surpasses other mobile channels, including creation of applications (35%), mobile commerce (29%) and mobile optimized emails (29%).Roughly one-quarter are using SMS marketing, while less than 1 in 5 are employing location-based marketing. Just 7% have turned to MMS and 2% to NFC.

Vizibility Launches Online Identity Manager to Monitor Law Firm Web Presence

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:33:40 -0400

Vizibility Launches Online Identity Manager to Monitor Law Firm Web Presence:

New York City-based Vizibility Inc. has launched Online Identity Manager, which supplements the company’s suite of identity sharing tools that include Mobile Business Cards and “Google Me” buttons. OIM can track when, where, and which of your law firm’s attorneys and staff are searched in Google by clients and competitors. It also tracks when individuals click on Quick Response (QR) codes or tap mobile wallets.

Vizibility Introduces Enterprise Management Platform for P2P Analytics

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:19:36 -0400

Vizibility Introduces Enterprise Management Platform for P2P Analytics:

Vizibility, one of a number of recent startups tackling online reputation management and how that connects with in-person interactions, today took the covers off its new Online Identity Manager designed specifically for enterprise use. The tool builds on their offerings for individual users, providing a bird’s-eye view for management to track how their staff are faring in terms of connecting with clients and potential clients via physical and NFC business cards, email signatures and in search results.

Vizibility Online Identity Manager Helps Businesses Monitor Online Presence

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:53:10 -0400

Vizibility Online Identity Manager Helps Businesses Monitor Online Presence:

Is your online identity accurate? That’s one of the questions that a new online identity management tool from Vizibility seeks to answer.

The tool, called the Online Identity Manager, provides analytics and a dashboard so that businesses can track and monitor the identity of individuals or the company itself. Vizibility said it was a first-of-its-kind business intelligence solution in support of personal branding.