Hoover's Connect+ makes it easier for you to capture business card data and learn more about contacts and potential customers in a matter of seconds.

Capture contact data, match and append Hoover's business information for additional insight, manage contacts and export contacts in multiple formats to make the most of sales, networking and business development connections.

Here's how:

* Capture contact data
* Append Hoover's information, written notes and voice memos to contacts
* Manage contacts through preset smart groups or create your own
* Export contacts in multiple formats for quick follow up

Capture contact data in four easy ways:

1. Take a photo of the business card
2. Add contacts via the phone's address book
3. Choose a photo of a business card in your device's photo library
4. Capture the QR code on a business card (available if phone is capable of taking video)

Easily edit or add to a contact's information.

APPEND NOTES AND ADDITIONAL DATA POINTS:

* Append Hoover's information (if available) to the contact, including:
- Date/time you last updated the information for the contact
- Company full name
- "Doing business as" name
- Address, telephone, Web site URL
- Primary industry
- Fiscal period
- Annual sales
- Number of employees at location
- Company synopsis
- Three key contacts

* Add additional data points (available as an in-app purchase for non-Hoover's subscribers or free for Hoover's Online subscribers):
- Key numbers
- More key contacts
- Biographies
- Competitive landscape
- Expanded company overview

* Record a 60-second voice memo for each contact; recording can then be played, deleted or re-recorded

* Write a note about your interaction with your contacts (no limit on note size)

MANAGE YOUR CONTACTS:

* Create groups to provide a mechanism for bundling contacts together

* Quickly and easily find contacts by viewing contacts alphabetically or through search

* View contacts on a map

* Contacts are sorted into smart groups, including industry-based, time-based and location-based groups

* Smart groups can be hidden from view and reordered

* View and segment contacts that have a voice memo or text note attached to their record

* Make data actionable:
- Visit the Web site URL to view the web site within the app
- Call the contact by tapping on the phone number; for mobile phone numbers tap to call or send a text message
- Send an e-mail to the contact
- Tap on the company address to see the contact's location on a map (and link to Hoover's Near Here app, if installed)

EXPORT SINGLE OR MULTIPLE CONTACTS IN SEVERAL FORMATS:

* E-mail (V-card, CSV, or tab-delimited) for easy upload into CRM and e-mail systems

* Address book entry (one contact at a time)

* Text (one contact at a time)

* See what contacts have been exported via smart groups

OTHER:

* View the application and information in a format that is preferable to you (landscape or portrait) and lock the screen based on your preference

* OCR capabilities support English and French language business cards


DEVICE REQUIREMENTS:

* Hoover's Connect+ requires iOS 4.0 or later

* An auto-focus back-facing camera is required, which means iPhone models 3G, 3GS and 4 and iPod touch (4th generation).

* Reading QR codes requires a device with video capability, which means iPhone models 3GS 4 and iPod touch (4th generation).

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

* An email account must be configured before the app will allow the user to email (send Hoover's feedback, export via email).

* A phone is required in order to send text messages.

* In-app purchase requires an iTunes account.

* Parental controls could affect some features (e.g. in-app purchasing).


Make the most of your networking opportunities with Hoover's Connect+. We make your work easier.


Also check out Hoover's Near Here, a location-based sales prospecting tool that gives you what you need to identify, filter, contact, and get directions to nearby leads everywhere you travel.