Business-Building Action from Terry L Brock
Establishing, building and maintaining quality, mutually-beneficial business relationships are what successful business people engage in on a regular basis. Keeping track of the myriad of on-line and off-line relationships today through Social Media, phone meetings, virtual video meetings, physical meetings and more can be daunting.
In my work as a professional speaker, I travel around the world demonstrating how you can use technology. One of the tools I’ve found to be most beneficial is a well-designed scanner. I’ve used the Fujitsu line and rave about the benefits. I didn’t see how they could possibly improve on their already-dazzling line. In fact, that was almost a negative as I thought, “Well, they really can’t get much better than what they have.”
I was wrong.
Those brilliant engineers at Fujitsu have come up with yet another marvel. The new S1300i takes scanner and serious business connections to the next level. With this new device, it not only scans the paper, business cards, hand written notes, receipts and other paper-based items, it now can scan directly to your Smartphone and/or iPad.
Be sure to watch the accompanying video to this article so you can see the actual performance of a couple of the features.
First, reading from their press release, they list a lot of features. Those that stand out in my mind — which can directly benefit you in the serious, nuts, bolts and wiggle pins of business — include:
- Easy Installation. I had the new scanner up and running in just a couple of minutes. This is important because, if you’re like me, you want to get down to business fast. It is easy to get it up and running. Load some included software, plug it into electricity and your USB port and you are ready to get down to business.
- Same Machine For Mac or Windows. In today’s work environment, we have a mixture of various devices. You can use this same scanner with Macs or Windows. This increases your efficiency and helps to save costs in these tough economic times.
- Can Operate on USB Alone, When Necessary. The unit comes with optional AC power (faster operation). However, if you’re on the road and just can’t get access to AC power, you can get the job done with the USB port alone. Very handy.
- Processing Business Cards. I’m using my new MacBook Pro with Retina Display for extra crisp resolution. It was able to handle the processing of business cards with the accompanying Cardiris for ScanSnap easily. Watch the video to see how it actually came out in real-world scanning.
- Scan to Smarphones and Tablets. This is a WOW!. Watch the video to see how you can scan an article you might read in a paper magazine and put it on your iPad to ease of sharing in, say a direct sales presentation or send to a group of people.
- Scan To Cloud You can scan your documents directly to Google Docs (sweet!), Evernote, Dropbox or SugarSync. This makes for great storage and hassle-free organization. Just remember a key word you’ve associated with the document and it is always available. You don’t have to lose any important documents again.
It still brings over the features that existed before like automatic de-skew and orientation so a document that was scanned in a crooked way is automatically straightened out. It also has auto color detection, auto paper size detection and auto keyword function so you can highlight the paper with a standard highlighter pen and the words are keyed for searchability. Very sweet!
It scans at a rate of 12 pages per minute (ppm). All my scans were very fast. Color – no problem. Dual sided – no problem. Different size pages – no problem but might require a wee bit of care monitoring just to make sure it works.
The folks at Fujitsu will call this a scanner, and, I guess they are technically correct. However, between you and me as real-world, on-the-street business people working to connect in both on- and off-line worlds, this tool is a great relationship builder.
I regularly use this S1300i to scan hand written notes from phone calls. I then tag them in Evernote with the person, perhaps the date and a key word for the call. Then I can pull up the vital information from anywhere I can get a good connection to the Net. I scan docs over to my iPad quickly this way also.
There is a lot more you can do with the S1300i, and I’m exploring that as I go. I recommend this scanner for saving time, building serious business relationships and business organization. You will be glad you got it.
Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i, 12 ppm, 300 dpi, $295.00 – Retail
Terry Brock helps organizations achieve their goals through his professional speaking, coaching and writing. He is a member of the Professional Speaker Hall of Fame and Immediate Past Editor-in-Chief of AT&T’s Networking Exchange Blog. Contact him for a no-charge review of what your organization can do to use Social Media and other tools to boost profits and productivity. @TerryBrock on Twitter, www.TerryBrock.com
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