Fine Print

Our GCI Canada business cards are very nice, always get a good response when handing them over. But you know the deal, right? You go to a lot of conferences, pitches, business meetings etc… and don’t want to carry a ton of cards to hand out.

Try Dropcard. It’s a very simple system. You simply text 41411 with a command like: “drop jcarson@gcicanada.com” and the recipient gets an e-mail with all your contact info and social networks. Sweet.

I like the founders’ philosophy too: “We’re three students who didn’t want to enter the business world armed with tools that were centuries old.  Not to mention the number of trees we’re saving by preventing the production of physical business cards.”

[Update. I asked co-founder Anton Bernstein about what happens to all the e-mails being sent by text: “We don’t harvest e-mails, nor do we sell e-mail addresses for marketing or anything like that. We make our money by selling premium versions of the basic free service. The only partners we work with are Textmarks (every SMS is processed through them and they don’t store any SMS content) and authSMTP, which processes our e-mails so that they don’t get stuck in spam. Otherwise, you can rest assured that we would never, ever give or sell our database of e-mail addresses to any entities outside of Dropcard.”]

Hat tip: Web Worker Daily.

~ John Carson, Senior Digital Media Specialist, GCI Canada