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SpartX Adds a New Dimension to Business Cards

Submitted by: steve gonzalez on Jun 16, 2009 at 9:37 pm Tagged with: cuttermitchell, face-to-face, Networking, socialnetworks, SpartX, stevegonzalez, techdrawl, virtualbusinesscard, virtualbusinesscards Source: TechDrawl.com

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by BEN DYER on JUNE 3, 2009

SpartX is the Aiken, SC based invention of college friends and co-founders Cutter Mitchell, CEO, and Steve Gonzalez, COO. SpartX is a virtual business card that can be emailed or left on a web site. The company provides templates for various uses, such as job seeking or sales calls, and hosts the virtual dimension of the card on the web. This dimension can easily be updated as information changes, and it can be customized for particular purposes. The company also prints and sells physical cards, which with the imprinted web link should drive recipients to the greater detail on the virtual card. The company also provides what it calls a “Card Slider” which serves the function of a Rolodex to manage a collection of cards.

The service was launched in March 2009. The company originally charged users a monthly service fee but abandoned that in favor of charging for job and event postings to facilitate networking.

SpartX is intended to be a complement to in-person face-to-face networking. If widely adopted it could present an easier alternative than pointing someone to LinkedIn or Facebook, for example. The virtual card is easily accessible, with just the relevant information, and without some of the extra steps of using those more established social networks.

The company has enjoyed considerable press coverage, including its presentation at Startup Riot 2009. We’re happy to add it to our list as well and will be interested in hearing any comments from active users.

So, until we all have implanted chips in our bodies that can exchange information of our choosing, SpartX may be the technology that makes our personal networking more effective.