I made a digital card last week and decide to write up how I made it so you can have one too. I like the digital card because people lose business cards easily before they are used or they just wind up in a pile with all the other cards. With this card you can increase the chances of people saving your info while giving them a chance to provide their info to you also making it easy to keep in contact. I made my card as simple as possible using a QR code, Google sites, and a Google form.
Step one: Make a Google site. You can title it anything you want preferably something that doesn’t look like spam so people will follow the link and pick a cool background to go with it.
Step two: Adding content. I am making this walk through as simple as possible so anyone can do it, and I’m not techy enough to do any really crazy cool setups. All I added was my name, title, email, and website. You can put whatever you would like. Then I Googled images of social media buttons like Facebook and twitter saving the images to my computer. Then on Google sites just click insert, image to stick the buttons on your page. When the button is loaded you will have the option of changing where the button takes people when clicked. Just copy and paste your social media url’s into that space and boom you have cool buttons people can click to follow you!
Step three: Adding a form. You will see on my card that I added an easy form people can fill out to pass their info to you. Just go to Google docs and create a new form. Just like in my other blogs it real easy to create the little spaces to fill out for peoples name, number and whatever else you want from them. When this is done you insert it into the Google site just like an image. You can put it anywhere on the page and its mobile friendly. Now people can offer up their info to you and leave little notes if you let them!
Step four: Get a QR code for you site. Making a QR is really easy you can just Google QR code and a bunch of sites come up allowing you to make them free. I suggest using a program that will shrink your URL so the code can be scanned faster like tinyurl.com. You can also put the little url on your paper card for people without scanners because it’s easier to type. Once you generate the code BOOM! You can paste it on anything! You are ready to go.
In my picture I just taped it to one of my cards. I would not suggest you do it but I wanted a quick example. Works everywhere the code can be pasted. This program is not for anyone afraid of being stalked because it lets people easily access all of your profiles so be careful out there. If any of you out there make some cool card pages send me a link so I can check them out!
