Never run out of business cards again, or have a contact lose your number because a card got lost. Gray Water Ops (717-412-1402) has a luxury alternative to Dots or Popl that puts your information directly onto your contact’s smartphone.
Business cards are an absolutely essential part of doing business, but they're also a gamble.
When you're handed a business card, even if you put it in your wallet and plan to transfer the details to your phone at some point - there's always a chance that may never happen.
The card could get lost or damaged, or you could simply forget about it. It happens all the time.
But what if there was an alternative that put the information straight into your phone, or that of your contacts, and it was as simple as a handshake?
For several decades, business cards have remained more or less the same, aside from some minor cosmetic changes. Gray Water Ops, a veteran-owned business based in Harrisburg, PA, has patented a unique alternative that uses NFC technology, in a custom minted 2" metal coin, to provide instant digital data transfers of your contact information with a single tap to the custom coin.
Visit https://www.graywaterops.com/challenge-coins to learn more about NFC business cards, how they work, and how to design your own.
Using the new NFC option, you can choose any relevant information and have it stored on your personalized coin to be transferred to potential contacts. Name, phone, email, website etc. To complete a transfer, your coin only has to be touched briefly to a smartphone or other device that has NFC technology, which includes nearly all smartphones manufactured in the last five years.
While traditional business cards are often lost, damaged, or discarded as wallets become crowded, using digital transfers solves these problems. Business information can be automatically and instantly added to a smartphone’s contact list without anyone having to enter the information manually, and it only takes a second.
The new luxury business card alternative has several other advantages as well, including reusability. The coins can transfer information an unlimited number of times without ever needing to have business cards re-printed, and you never need to worry about carrying a stack of cards with you or running out and missing a networking opportunity. A single coin you carry in your pocket, with weight, thickness and custom designed for your brand or business.
The NFC chip on every coin is fully customizable and can be programed over and over by the end user. The coin design would be minted in bulk with 100 being the minimum. The coin design both aesthetically and in terms of the data and chipset in the patented coin can be custom designed, in bulk, for businesses, organizations or events. Gray Water Ops is known for creating thicker, heavier, and more detailed coins than other challenge coin services, with the option to add layers of 3D details.
Though the coins can be used as an alternative to traditional business cards, the use of NFC technology opens a whole range of potential uses, many of which have not been fully explored yet. By pairing the coins with an NFC tag reader, they can be used for any action that includes completing an electrical circuit, such as opening security doors or transferring contact info directly from the chip, without the need to connect online.
Since each coin can easily store a unique ID number, businesses could also use the coins for customer loyalty programs or storing login information. The coins can also be programmed to store passwords, websites, or map details that would be displayed on a smartphone as soon as a user tapped the coin to their device.
Changing the font, color, or style of your business card, is not very likely to help you stand out from the crowd - it's all been done before.
An instant data transfer at the touch of a coin will not only help you stand out, but it will also ensure your contact information is transferred directly to a smartphone's contact list, where it won't be lost or damaged.
Visit https://www.graywaterops.com/challenge-coins to find more uses for NFC coins, learn more about business card alternatives, or design your own custom digital business card.
