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Yesterday I received an @tweet from DubMeNow (Dub) suggesting I follow a link and check out their product. Having been married some 28 years now, I am properly trained to follow all commands so … I did (smile). Pretty sweet!
Dub is an electronic business card that is designed to work with your iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android phone. Setup is very easy and you can do this from either the website or from your phone. Your electronic profile can contain all of your pertinent contact information in addition to icon links to your various social networks including Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others. Oddly, I could not figure out how to add those networks from the web interface but did so easily from my phone.
You now have the ability to send your electronic business card via email, sms, or to a specific “dub id” which is a nickname that you assign yourself and which is unique in the Dub network. It gets better. If you are right next to the person and you are both on the Dub network, you can exchange your information electronically. Kickin’ it old school like with my Palm 3C (smile). The card that is sent out is quite polished and looks like this screen shot taken from an actual email …
It’s important to note that while the person receiving the card does not have to be on Dub to see it (the links on the card, incidentally, are all live and active), to download it to their address book they will need to create a Dub card of their own and a link is there to take them to do that. Doing so does have a number of benefits one of which is, once connected via Dub, if either of us were to update our contact information, that information is automatically updated to our network’s individual phone books. If your recipient does not choose to create a Dub card of their own, they will receive one email reminder only approximately one week later.
Information exchanged was also automatically added to my BlackBerry contact book. They tell me that any changes made by my Dub contacts will also be automatically updated to this file. When an email is received on my BlackBerry, I can choose to send that contact a business card with one click. I can also scroll through my address book and easily choose to send individual contacts my business card. You can upload your Gmail, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Outlook, and other contact books to Dub and have it send your card to those you select from each list. Dub also has the ability to sync with SalesForce.com and Oracle.
Dub additionally has integrated the ability to send invitations to connect on LinkedIn and does so as a LinkedIn approved add-on. And finally, if you wish, it will even send out a Tweet when you and another person exchange Dub cards. Kind of like a wedding announcement (smile). So, take a look and see what you think. I have suggested that it would be uber cool if they came up with an email signature tool like the WiseStamp add-on for FireFox that works with Gmail. Or one for Outlook. How about a widget for my website? I have also requested that they use a fatter letter font at least on my BlackBerry. My eyes are old and don’t work so well anymore (smile).
Thanks for visiting!
Craig
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Craig M. Jamieson is a lifelong B2B salesperson, manager, owner, and a networking enthusiast. NetWorks! Boise Valley is a business to business networking organization for the most serious sales and marketing professionals only.
