For business development at manufacturers and trading companies
Dealers, buyers and plant contacts, in one list the whole team can use
Business development runs on the dealers, distributors, purchasing heads and plant managers you meet at trade fairs and site visits. Meishio turns their cards into one shared team list, in English and Japanese, and helps you notice when they change jobs.
Free while in early access. Each person chooses which work contacts the team sees; personal contacts and notes stay private.
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The problem
Hundreds of cards a year, and nobody can find the right one
Trade fairs, plant visits and dealer meets leave a box of cards per person. The one you need, the maintenance head at a customer's second plant, is in a colleague's drawer.
Buyers and plant managers move between companies in the same industry. A contact who moves to another customer is a new lead, but only if someone hears about it.
How Meishio helps
Three steps
Scan the trade-fair stack
Up to 12 cards in one photo, English, Japanese or both, with fronts and backs joined. Cards scanned together at a show are grouped as one event. Contacts already on your phone come in by connecting Google Contacts.
Share with sales and service
Share the work contacts that matter with the team workspace, organised in collections by region, product line or customer. Several workspaces can keep teams or regions apart.
Plan visits and follow-ups
See who the team knows at each company. Before a trip, see who you know in a city, by company. Give every follow-up one owner and a date.
What stays private
- The team sees a name, title, company, the work email and office numbers if included, and who knows them.
- Card photos are kept only as a resized image without camera or location data.
- Contacts are stored in Singapore and never sold.
Questions
Can it read the Japanese and English cards of the same company?
Yes. Meishio reads English, Japanese and bilingual cards, reads titles such as 部長 and 代表取締役, and treats kanji and romaji names as the same person.
We already have a CRM. Where does Meishio fit?
A CRM usually holds the account and the deal. Meishio keeps everyone your team has met at that account and who knows them. Export a CSV in Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, kintone or Pipedrive columns when you want them in the CRM; direct CRM sync is planned.
Can sales, service and management all use it?
Yes. Invite each colleague with a personal link as an admin, editor or viewer, and use several workspaces to keep teams or regions apart. The team screens are in English for now.
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Bring the trade-fair cards together.
Create a workspace, invite your sales and service colleagues, and scan the first stack the same afternoon. Free while in early access.
Free while in early access. Personal contacts and notes stay private; each person chooses what the team sees.