In today’s digital-first world, staying connected is more important than ever. And as the way we communicate evolves, so should the tools we use to manage our contacts and professional presence. Enter HiHello—an innovative solution that’s disrupting the status quo when it comes to contact sharing.
If you’ve ever wondered why HiHello might be a better alternative to using your phone’s native contacts, LinkedIn, or even paper business cards, you're not alone. Let’s dive into the reasons that make HiHello stand out as a superior choice for contact sharing.
Sharing contacts via HiHello instead of native contacts
When it comes to sharing contact details today, most people typically default to using their phone’s contacts feature. To explain why HiHello is a better choice, we’ll compare it to using native contacts.
A card for every setting
If you share with native contacts, the recipient receives the personal contact you set up when you got your phone. This may include additional details or lack thereof and won’t necessarily put your best personal brand forward.
One of the major benefits of HiHello is the ability to create multiple cards with different information, depending on the intended setting. You may want to share different contact information at a work event versus school pickup, and all the scenarios in between. The best part is it only takes a few minutes to create a new card or update an old one from the HiHello mobile or web-app.
Details as dynamic as you are
If you share with native contacts, the information you share is static. This means whatever information you share at the moment of sharing is what the recipient will receive. So, if you change any piece of information, your contact will be out of date to the person you’ve shared it with.
HiHello allows you to create dynamic digital business card or contact card. These cards are more than just a static collection of details or links. If the recipient you’re sharing your contact with has HiHello (and they don’t need to!), your contact will continue to update in their contact book over time dynamically.
Consider when you’ve changed jobs, moved, updated your email address, or even physical mailing address. With HiHello this information gets instantly updated to the recipient via the HiHello contact book. If not using HiHello, recipients can easily save your contact information directly to their device and can even send their contact details back to you with just a few taps. This exchange is smoother and more enriched than the manual process of sharing contact cards from traditional Contacts.
Multiple sharing options
With native contacts, how you share is limited. Depending on your device type, you may be limited in the ways you can share, and sharing from Apple to Android can come with trouble, too. Some devices allow you to select the information you want to share, and you can create multiple contacts for yourself in theory, but they are all tied back to and must live in your phone, so you must always give out your phone number or associated email.
With HiHello, you can easily share your card via QR code, a link, email signature, or a virtual background. With over 13 ways to share, and no limitations between operating systems, you can share your card anywhere with anyone.
Better contact management
When you’re using your native contacts, you’re stuck with one long alphabetized list of contacts. There are no organization options, categories, or sorting.
With HiHello, you can use the contact manager to automatically sort, organize, and manage your connections. Or, if you already use a CRM, HiHello offers CRM interactions with Google Contacts, Outlook, Salesforce, and more, making it easy to sync your contact information across your devices and platforms.
This ensures that your contact management is organized and up to date. Apple Contacts, while useful for storing personal information, doesn’t have the same level of CRM integration, making it harder to manage large-scale professional networks.
Sharing contacts via HiHello instead of LinkedIn
Sometimes, people who are looking for a professional way to exchange contact information will share their LinkedIn profile rather than a phone number or business card. Connecting over LinkedIn isn’t the same as swapping contact information, though; here’s where HiHello wins:
Control and flexibility
When you build your LinkedIn profile, it’s often meant to be viewed by hundreds of people (maybe recruiters), but not necessarily new clients, friends, or mentors. The information you put on your profile is meant for one specific audience, and you’re locked into the format and content available on a LinkedIn profile.
With HiHello, you can customize multiple cards to control the information and be flexible with what you share. Every card can be tailored to the right audience, so you’re always putting your best foot forward.
No second steps
When you share LinkedIn profiles, you’re only getting part of the way to a new connection. Each party has to take action to create the connection, and that all hinges on someone staying on top of their LinkedIn connection requests.
With HiHello, you’re instantly connected, regardless of whether they have an account, and no approval process is required. Once you send your card, they have access to it immediately, and can save your information right to their phone.
Stay connected
Unless you’re a power LinkedIn user, odds are you aren’t checking your DMs every day, and when you choose LinkedIn as your only contact exchange method, it’s likely you may have trouble actually connecting with your new connection. When you use digital business cards, you can make sure you’re sharing and capturing contact information that works, whether it’s a phone number, email address, WhatsApp, or something else, you can ensure you’re always connected.
Sharing contacts via HiHello instead of paper business cards
The oldest standard of sharing contact information has been around for centuries, but they’ve quickly been left behind in favor of digital business cards. When compared to paper business cards, HiHello offers several advantages:
Cost-effective
Paper business cards can be expensive, especially when you need to reorder due to changes or typos. Digital business cards are at least 26% less expensive, with savings increasing for larger organizations.
Environmentally friendly
Paper cards come with an environmental cost (5 million trees per year), but digital cards have no physical footprint, making them a more environmentally friendly choice. See the difference between paper and digital in this sustainability report.
No more typo’s
If you’ve ever received your stack of business cards with a typo on them or had to update your phone number or email, you know the pain of trashing and reordering cards while there’s an unused stack still sitting in your drawer. With digital cards, you can update them instantly. Whether you have a new title or you have an exciting new product or deal to showcase, you can make changes anytime.
Take them anywhere
Never leave your business cards at home or in your office again. With an electronic business card, wherever you and your phone go, so does your card.
Why HiHello wins
No matter what option you’re comparing it to, HiHello comes out on top. From dynamic cards that can contain rich, interactive information to over 13 ways to share, digital business cards are the most powerful tool for everyone, from enterprises to individuals, to build and maintain stronger networks.
Whether you’re looking to grow your connections, build your business, present a consistent brand, or swap phone numbers with the other moms at the park, HiHello provides a simple and powerful solution for everyone. Download HiHello today to experience the new generation of contact exchange.
.webp)
