Monday, July 16, 2012

How SphereUp saved the game and all my contacts with it…


Dear SphereUp,

I usually don’t writing into these things but your product, Sphereup, really saved my day. It all started last Sunday, at the park. I was practicing some baseball with my son. He needs a bit of work with his hitting, so I was out on the mound pitching him some baseballs, and all of a sudden, Crack!!!, he hit a line drive right at me.

There was no getting out of the way of this one; that was for sure. It hit my IPhone in my shirt breast pocket. It hit it so hard that the display screen was shattered.
I remember thinking; it’s only the screen, for sure all my contacts are still saved. And then I get the call from the place fixing my phone telling me that they have to wipe my memory and upgrade the phones…. something or other….

Just great; I have over 3,890 contacts, 3,242 of which are business related. You see, I deal in import and export make a living through networking, and as such, contacts are an essential part of my business. 
Who knows how long it would have taken for me to recover from this setback had I not had SphereUp. I simply downloaded SphereUp onto my fixed phone and signed in with my acct and batta bing batta boom… all my phone numbers where back.

Thank you SphereUp,

Satisfied Customer

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

"Can you send me the professor's email?" If I got a penny every time I heard that…


People always need to contact other people. This "need" can be triggered by different circumstances, but often we have real difficulties in meeting this need. 

Many times we are missing the contact details of the specific person we are looking for. Sometimes we just changed phones, don’t have Internet access, can't remember on which application the information was stored, or just too lazy to access it (why bother looking for the professor’s email on the faculty website, when I have his assistant's email on my iPhone?)

For me SphereUp provides a solution for all these annoying instances, when the contact information is not at the tip of my fingers. 
How? Four words: 
SAVE ONCE- SEE EVERYWHERE!

SphereUp knows how to take contacts that I saved in different places (like my mobile or outlook) and make them available for me in all my favorite apps. That way, Adam’s email, saved on my iPhone, will also appear on my Gmail, right in the address line once I type "Adam". 

But it's much more than that, even when I don’t "save" SU is there for me: The graphic designer, who emailed me yesterday to my outlook, already appears in my SU contacts list on my iPhone. 


So it doesn’t really matter when or how I interacted with a contact, SU makes sure that the contact information is available for me, anytime, anywhere- in all the devices and applications that I use.

That way- I never need to ask for someone's phone number or email address. I can simply check my SphereUp :-)


This post was contributed by Liron Nehmadi
Liron is a PHD student and a lecturer in Ben Gurion University.




Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Connect the dots with SphereUp


As a child, one of my favorites games was “connect the dots”. I remember how eager I would get to find that hidden picture at the end.
Today, whenever I need to contact a co-worker or a customer, the “digging process” begins...

I’m having a hard time, remembering if I ever included his/her contact details anywhere, and if I did, where …with so many applications and devices, no wonder I can’t recall if or where I might have put it. 

Did I put it in my Outlook, or was it LinkedIn, could be smart phone, or did I simply just put in a doc, god only knows where…!


So here I am, grown-up and relatively organized, spending my precious time and effort looking for that contact info.

From conversations with friends, I know that I am not alone…with so many contacts and devices out there how can anyone keep track?

Keeping in touch with your friends can become quite a complicated mission…let alone finding a customer or co-worker’s number or email. Is it in my outlook, or maybe it’s on my phone or wait, I know, it was last seen in a yahoo email… what a dilemma, even if one manages to figure out where it’s stored, it’s not always available when you need it.
It all comes down to the very basic question: how can I get a hold of the person I need, now?

SphereUp a cloud-based contacts management solution- comes to the rescue and connects the dots for us. 

Basically, what Sphereup does is aggregates ones’ contacts from all sources and lets the user see all of their contacts in one place. Contacts are always up-to-date and available anytime, anywhere From a PC, Web and Mobile.

From a company prospective, having a single valid contact network is a powerful advantage that helps to enhance productivity and collaboration within the entire ecosystem. Any authorized user can share contact lists of colleagues, customers and service providers, from his office, home or while on the go.

Did you know that the average person has approximately 4,000 contacts...?!

Contacts are an essential asset to all of us, both in business and our personal lives; keeping them organized, up-to-date, accurate and most importantly- handy at all times, really makes the difference.