In a world where first impressions matter, networking must be quick and easy while addressing the unique needs of individuals and teams. Without efficient and flexible lead management tools, valuable connections can easily slip away, creating missed opportunities. At HiHello, we recognize these challenges and are dedicated to transforming the networking experience into a streamlined process that fosters meaningful relationships.
That is why we’re excited to introduce HiHello Connect, a suite of dynamic new features designed to empower you and your team to create lasting impressions. HiHello Connect includes our new Customized Lead Capture Tools, which provide unparalleled control over how you capture and manage leads, ensuring every connection is collected in a way that suits you best. Combined with our redesigned Contact Manager, AI-powered card scanner, and customizable disclaimers for email signatures, you and your team(s) are ready to supercharge your networking efforts.
Capture more leads–everywhere
Your business card has the potential to hold great power, but only if it makes it into the right hands and then into their contact manager. That’s why HiHello has spent countless hours perfecting the sharing and card exchange process to ensure that HiHello digital business cards are the most powerful contact sharing tool to grow and nurture your network.
What’s New?
- Optimized Exchange: A new HiHello contact exchange experience means simplified contact sharing and better information exchange with your contacts and leads. With our updated closing the loop feature, we saw the rate of successful contact exchanges double, with a smoother and more intuitive experience.
- Share Offline: We take our phones everywhere, but sometimes Wi-Fi or cell service doesn’t come with us. HiHello’s new Offline Sharing is instantly enabled the moment you lose connection or turn on Airplane Mode. In Offline Mode, when someone scans your HiHello QR code, your name, company, title, phone number, email, and card link will automatically be added to their phone contacts.
Scan a contact from anywhere with our updated AI Contact Scanner
At HiHello, we’re always thinking about how we can make it easier for you to connect with others, grow your network, and keep your contact information organized. That’s why, as part of HiHello Connect, we’re thrilled to announce the latest update to our scan page, giving our AI-powered contact scanning feature a fresh new look and feel, and improved usability.
What’s New?
- Refreshed Design: The new scan page is more intuitive and sleek, offering a clean interface that makes adding contacts easier than ever.
- Improved Usability: We’ve simplified the process so whether you’re at a busy conference or a casual meetup, scanning is faster, smoother, and more reliable.
- Badge Scanning: Business cards aren’t the only way we exchange contact info. Our upgraded AI scanner now seamlessly reads badges from conferences, name tags, or even handwritten post-it notes. No matter how you capture the info, HiHello has you covered.
The goal behind our AI-powered scanner remains the same: to help you build deeper relationships by making the process of capturing and organizing contact information effortless, accurate, and immediate. No wasting time on manual input, no spell checks—just point, scan, and save.
Introducing Customized Contact Exchange Settings
Empower your team to collect leads without getting slowed down
At HiHello, “closing the loop” refers to the process of sharing your digital business card and receiving contact information in return. This process is critical for building meaningful relationships. With the new Custom Contact Exchange options, you can now tailor how new connections interact with your digital business card. Administrators on HiHello Business and HiHello Enterprise subscriptions can now:
- Personalize How You Exchange Information: Choose exactly how recipients of your digital card can save your information through our lead capture form —whether through email or phone—and decide if they need to provide their contact details before they can save yours.
- Customize Permissions to Fit Your Workflow: Professional teams may face industry-specific restrictions, such as cases where representatives can’t legally receive lead information. We’ve made it easy for you to customize the order and permissions of contact information exchange, ensuring compliance with those guidelines.
- Access Company-Wide Controls: Manage contact exchange permissions across your entire team, giving your organization more control over how connections are made.
- Add Custom Consent Forms: Add personalized consent forms or agreements to your digital business cards, ensuring new contacts agree to terms of service, privacy policies, or other legal agreements before exchanging information.
These enhancements allow you to streamline the way you connect with others while ensuring that your networking experience remains efficient, customizable, and compliant with any industry-specific regulations.
A New and Improved Contact Management System
HiHello’s Redesigned Contacts Page is Enhanced, Intuitive, and Built for Teams.
HiHello Connect is about the full circle of contact capture, management, and nurturing, which is why we’re also excited to unveil the newly overhauled Contacts Manager, designed to give you and your team even more control, flexibility, and visibility when managing your connections. Whether you’re tracking leads, syncing contacts to your CRM, or managing your team’s network, our redesigned Contacts Page equips you with the tools to optimize and streamline your contact management process.
With additional features like automatic organization, live updates to contact information, and access from anywhere through our web and mobile apps, the HiHello Contact Manager is the new go-to solution for anyone looking to streamline their contact management.
Key Updates:
- Refreshed Design: We’ve overhauled the layout to create a modern, clean, and user-friendly experience. Now, you can easily access and manage your leads, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
- Enhanced Contact Management: View and manage all the contacts you’ve collected in one place, automatically synced and organized for you or your team. No more searching through lists for lead tracking —you’ll have the visibility you need in seconds.
- Seamless CRM Integration: Sync your contacts to the lead management system of your choice, including Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, HubSpot, and more. Whether you're working solo or with a team, our contact integrations ensure your lead information is always up to date, and aligned across platforms.
- Advanced Filtering & Tagging: Our new filtering system allows you to quickly segment contacts, whether by card type, event, or team activity. Additionally, you can apply custom tags and sync them with your preferred campaign management tool, ensuring clear segmentation for future follow-ups and marketing efforts.
- Team-Wide Management: For organizations, managing contacts across a team has never been easier. Access, filter, and export contact data collected by your team members, providing full visibility and control over lead generation and contact management efforts.
- Improved Notes & Tags: Notes and tags have been key features for many of our users, and we’ve made them even easier to apply and manage. With this update, you can effortlessly attach custom notes and tags, allowing for more effective follow-ups and deeper context for each contact.
HiHello’s Contact Manager continues to lead the way in streamlining professional networking. From automatic contact organization to live updates that ensure contact details are always current, we provide a comprehensive solution for managing your network. Whether you’re using it as a standalone lead management system or syncing with external CRMs, HiHello’s newly enhanced Contacts Page makes it easier than ever to stay organized and connected.
Introducing Custom Disclaimers for Automated Email Signatures
Comply with industry guidelines while adding a sleek branded signature to every email.
How you Connect also comes with compliance and confidentiality concerns, which is why we’ve added a feature to HiHello’s Automated Email Signature integration with Google Workspace and Microsoft Outlook that allows companies to easily create, distribute, and send branded email signatures with every email. Each email signature includes an interactive digital business card, providing recipients with links to schedule meetings, sign up for events, download resources, and view product demos, elevating the traditional email signature. We’re thrilled to offer the ability to add Custom Disclaimers to any automated email signatures used by Business and Enterprise teams.
The importance of disclaimers:
Some companies or industries require disclaimer text to be included below employees' email signatures for legal or regulatory reasons. For example, you might need to add a disclaimer to your emails if your team has to consider:
- Legal Compliance: Certain industries have regulatory requirements that mandate specific disclosures or disclaimers to ensure communications meet legal standards. For example, financial firms might include disclaimers to comply with SEC regulations, while healthcare organizations might include HIPAA compliance statements regarding patient privacy.
- Confidentiality: Disclaimers can often include statements that the email contains confidential information intended only for the recipient. This protects sensitive data and helps prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of proprietary information.
- Limiting Liability: Companies use disclaimers to limit liability for any unintentional errors, omissions, or misunderstandings in communication.
- Non-Binding Nature of Emails: Some industries require disclaimers that clarify email communications are not legally binding unless stated explicitly. This is common in legal and financial services, where negotiations and contracts are formalized through other channels.
- Compliance with Data Protection Laws: In regions governed by strict data protection laws, such as the GDPR in Europe, email disclaimers may serve as a reminder of the company's compliance policies, particularly regarding the handling and protection of personal data.
- Environmental or Ethical Statements: Some companies include optional disclaimers highlighting environmental reasons (e.g., encouraging email recipients to avoid printing emails) or to showcase their commitment to ethical practices.
- Trademark and Copyright Notices: In industries dealing with intellectual property, disclaimers may include notices about trademarks, copyrights, or proprietary content to protect against misuse of the company’s intellectual assets.
Leverage HiHello to network better, faster, and smarter.
No matter where you find yourself—at a vibrant conference, making connections remotely, at a coffee shop, or a playdate—HiHello is dedicated to making your networking experience seamless and enjoyable. Our ongoing commitment to innovating around contact management, lead data management, and relationships ensures you can forge lasting connections with ease. We can’t wait to see how HiHello Connect elevates your networking, and we’re excited to continue learning from you and hearing your feedback on how we can continue to improve. The future of networking is here, and we’re building it together.
Ready to take your team's network to the next level? Schedule a demo to get started with a HiHello Business or HiHello Enterprise plan today.
