Whether you are a Yankees fan or not, here is a CloudContacts bonus offer everyone can take advantage of.

Order by 11:59pm on Saturday, November 7th and you can receive a bonus free card processing of 27% on all mail-in orders. The 27 comes from the number of World Series titles the Yankees have won.

Just place your normal order and when we count the cards, we will process an extra 27% for free. Order 100, get 127 processed…order 500 get an extra 135 processed at no charge.

Notes…not good on previous purchases, all cards must be submitted in one bundle and the free card processing is offered to a maximum of 150 cards.

You spend time getting ready for the event (conference, party, etc.), travel to the event, keep a smile on your face all evening, shake loads of hands and network to the last minute. You get back to the office, take out all of the business cards, put them in an envelope and possibly note the event on the envelope. Can you remember everyone you met? More importantly, can they remember you?

What about next week, month or year when you launch your next project or have a life-changing event? Wouldn’t each of those people in that envelope like to know about your new news? But how will they know if they are sitting in an envelope. One of those contacts could be your next employee, investor, press contact or friend.

In today’s market, the one with the most contacts wins.

The key is to get the right contacts into your email program, your CRM system, and “friend” your contacts on networks including LinkedIn and Facebook.

Our scanning and transcription service allows you to easily do all of the above plus a lot more. But even if you type everything in manually, just do it. And then round third and head home for the win.

The event will be held on Saturday 24th of October 2009, 09:30am, at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil.

Customer feedback:

“I love the service – we are going to send you our cards each month.”
– Ian Hartten, Toledo.com

Reviews:

• CNN
• NPR
• Entrepreneur Daily Dose

Customer feedback:

“CloudContacts is the most awesome service.”
– Eric Ries, Author of Startup Lessons Learned

“I love CloudContacts, just imported all these contacts to Gmail, it works amazingly well, plus it’s simple.”
– iLan Abehassera, Producteev Founder & CEO

Review:

CloudContacts Turns Business Cards Into ‘Cloud’ Cards — Rick Broida, BNET

1. Export your contacts from CloudContacts – you can select all of your contacts or a subset by clicking the export box next to each name you would like to export.
2. Save the file to your computer
3. Click this link – you may need to login to LinkedIn – once you have logged in, you will be prompted for the contacts file – select the file you downloaded in step #2
4. That’s it – follow the steps on the LinkedIn site and your contacts will be connected and/or receive invitations to connect

As always, let us know if you have any questions about the CloudContacts service.

Delicious is the most popular online bookmarking service and our new bookmark export is a perfect fit. The bookmark export uses the industry-standard for bookmark files and you can use the file with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and other online bookmarking services.

Here are the simple instructions to import your business card website links into Delicious:

A. Export the bookmarks by clicking the “Bookmarks” option in your CloudContacts account

B. Login to Delicious and select the “Settings” option on the top right corner

C. Select the “Import/Upload Bookmarks” option as shown below.

D. 1. Select the file on your computer where you saved your new business card bookmarks file. Enter a tag if you desire (e.g. Business Cards). 2. Decide if you want to keep your bookmarks private or make them public. Leave the other settings on the default. Click “Import Now” as shown below and you will be taken to your updated bookmark page with all of your new business card links.

Not a CloudContacts customer? What are you waiting for – let us process your business cards today!

Taking a random sample of cards, most of the larger companies (especially banks) have toll-free numbers listed while startups and small businesses list local phone numbers.

I asked my followers on Twitter for their thoughts on toll-free number usage and my favorite reply came from Kathryn Finney of TheBudgetFashionista who noted, “(there’s no need for toll-free numbers) because most people use celle phones as their primary phone”.

While I am not sure if everyone is using cell phones as a primary phone, I wonder how many people aren’t on a flat local- and long-distance calling plan.

Several years ago I bought a toll-free number through Vonage for my business and found that it was barely used and most of my current and prospective clients used my regular phone. Eventually I cancelled the number.

I’d love your feedback – do you have a toll-free number for your business? If so, what was the rationale for getting it and keeping it? If you are starting a new business now, do you plan on paying for a toll-free number?

When you send in your cards, either by mail or email, you can include a note if you would like a category assigned. You can also include multiple bundles in one order. When we process your cards, we will include the requested category on each contact. Of course you can also assign a card to a category at any time.

You can view your contacts by category inside of our web administration interface and the contacts are included when you download your contact file. Many applications allow categories to be imported as well and today’s update supports that functionality as well.

As always, let us know if you have any questions.

It’d be cool if each card you collected earned points and famous people were worth bonuses like 1-ups, big guys, etc. So get out your Frogger, Metroid and Super Mario and get collecting!