National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

Salesforce users can now have contact information from business cards entered into Salesforce without touching a keyboard or scanner. Shoeboxed.com today unveiled a connector for the Salesforce AppExchange that will enable Salesforce customers to directly import contact data from their business cards into Salesforce and easily flag duplicates, without ever leaving the Salesforce interface. The [...]

To reduce paper clutter and unnecessary postage costs, Shoeboxed is now allowing our customers to opt out of getting their receipts and business cards mailed back to them. By default, we return receipts and business cards for our Mail-In Classic and Business members. Since we provide scanned copies of the receipts and  business cards, many [...]

Shoeboxed recently announced a partnership with Jigsaw to help business professionals expand their network of business contacts by scanning and sharing business cards online. Shoeboxed gives people an easy way to get hard copy business cards scanned and uploaded to the web. Jigsaw then aggregates them, letting people trade what they have for fresh contacts [...]

BatchBlue, a slick online contact relationship management (CRM) application, has implemented the Shoeboxed API and now allows you to automatically sync your Shoeboxed business cards directly into their online software. This is a big win for any small business that wants to get more out of the business cards that they collect. This will save [...]

If you haven’t sent them out already, many of you have probably already begun planning for sending out holiday cards for this year.
Though sending out holiday cards is a nice thing to do and common tradition in our culture, sending them out also represents an opportunity to tastefully market your business to your friends, family, [...]

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Over the last month we’ve been busy upgrading the Shoeboxed web application, adding new features and preparing for the upcoming tax season.

We’ve had a ton of new users since the last newsletter, so we wanted to say “welcome” to all the new Shoeboxed [...]

Over here at Shoeboxed, we’re excited about the holidays, and we’re happy about all the people that will get Shoeboxed subscriptions as a presents in the next couple of months. Any good Holiday Gift Guide for a small business owner or business traveler begins and ends with Shoeboxed.
Purchasing a subscription of Shoeboxed’s scanning service for [...]

With the large number of companies that print business cards, it is relatively easy to order your own business cards. You can design your own in just a few minutes and order hundreds to arrive in your office or home in just a few days.
But it just might be too easy to order business cards. [...]

Now that Shoeboxed scans business cards, we encourage you to collect as many cards as you can. By sending them in to Shoeboxed, you will have a complete archive of all your cards.
Before Shoeboxed, we all had to keep track of our business cards somehow. From those plastic sheets made specifically for business cards to [...]

When you exchange business cards with someone, you have the opportunity to make a great first impression. And unless you work for a large or established company, you probably have some influence into how your own business cards look. Hopefully we can help you design your own business cards that are both functional and high-impact.
There [...]

When you are thinking about how to best organize your business cards, you may be tempted to buy a scanner to do it yourself.
Sure, you could buy a scanner for your business cards and scan them in yourself. There are even scanners that have optical character recognition technology that “read” your business cards and guess [...]

We all know that being a mom is full time job (at the very least). Well, since many people that are full-time professionals have business cards, we wondered why moms don’t have business cards as well. They would be great if you want to exchange contact information with others, especially other moms.
As we were throwing [...]

In the normal course of my Shoeboxed work reading up on receipts and business cards, I found this great video about business card etiquette. Having spent a summer in Japan myself, I can attest to the importance of business cards in Asian culture that the host of the video talks about. Though some of the [...]

The Industry Standard has released the results of the Industry Standard 100 Awards! After a public vote and a editorial review of Shoeboxed, we have been awarded second place in the Productivity category!
We’re humbled to have been ranked so high, as there were many great applications both in our category and throughout the 10 categories [...]

We’ve seen a ton of people signing up over the last two days to use our brand new business card service.  You can now send in business cards along with your receipts; we’ll scan them and upload them into your account with all the information on the business card, including name, title, company, website, phone [...]