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MeeID | Your Online Business Card [Review]

Posted by on Sep 7, 2008 in Cool Tools Reviews, Marketing/SEO | 24 comments

I just came across this very easy-to-use site & had to share. MeeID has to be one of the simplest sites I’ve signed up for. It allows you to create a very simple, yet effective online business card. The only restriction about it is that you can only use 10 lines to sell yourself.

First you are asked to enter a title & choose a color for it. You can only choose between basic colors such as black, red, orange, blue, etc. Next you’ll be prompted to enter your 10 lines of text. If you would like one of your 10 lines to link to a website, social profile, or anything else, you can do that as well. All you have to do is enter it in the http:// line (as pictured below).

Your characters per line are also limited, so beware of that. I’m not sure how many it is but when you run out, you just won’t be able to type anymore.

MeeID - Your online business card.

Next you’re asked to enter the favorite MeeIDs, but you can skip this step if you’d like. I find this kind of odd. If I’m new to this site, more than likely I may not know anyone else here (which I don’t), so I won’t have anything to enter here. Luckily, you can always just go back & add to this later. You can enter up to 10 MeeIDs here.

MeeID - Your online business card.

Next you can upload a photo but, you can also skip this step as well if you’d like. If you choose to upload a photo, the next step allows you to crop it. After that, you’ll all done & it takes you to your MeeID. I just threw mine together but you can check it out here if you’d like. As you can see it’s very easy & takes about 2 minutes to set up.

There’s only a few things you can do on MeeID after creating one. You can change it, view your favorites, search for users & iew random MeeIDs.

I like how the MeeIDs that you put in as your favorites are shown at the top of your MeeID page (as you can see below). When you hover your mouse over the “(your name here)’s favorites” link, you’ll see all the MeeIDs appear in a drop down list.

MeeID favorites.

Clicking the”View a Random MeeID” button (the last image on the right pictured above) is also a nice touch; it’s kind of like the “stumble” button on Stumbleupon – you never know what/who you’re going to see.

I think MeeID is great for anyone who is looking for a very simple way to market themselves online, without all the technical challenges that most sites require.

Besides being a bit plain (which some prefer), I think MeeID has great potential & could prove to be very useful. I mean, Twitter is very simple & people are now addicted; so, we’ll have to see how it goes.

What do you think? Is it too simple? Is this something you’ll consider using? Will it spread like wildfire?

Update: MeeID is now a blog (no relation), instead of a very cool online business card.

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  • Jerry Mays

    Thanks for the article, I went to MeeID and found how awesome and simple it was. Simply amazing that someone didn’t bring this around sooner. Brilliant!

  • http://chachafance.info ChaCha Fance

    Thanks! I agree & I think more people need to know about it!

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    Wow this is extremely cool and can take your online presence a step further. I have seen others but this one looks like it would be much better to use

  • http://chachafance.info ChaCha Fance

    Yea, definitely the easiest! I think even someone like my mother could set this up, which is good! :)

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    Thank you Ananda! I’m glad that I can be of help & thank you for the link love! :)

  • http://www.online-business-card.com Oliver Polden

    Great post. I’ve created another simple site at: http://www.online-business-card.com. It’s highly optimised for search engines, e.g. try in google: oliver polden business card, my card comes up number 1. So could yours.

    I’m still improving it and it’s going to stay very simple but if anyone wants to suggest any features I’ll be happy to consider including them :)

  • http://chachafance.info ChaCha Fance

    Thanks for sharing Oliver! Will definitely check it out.

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  • http://www.everestcomputers.co.uk George The Web Designer

    Cool! I’ve never heard of this service before but now I’ll try to have an online business card too.
    I’m not yet sure what it’s all about and how people would find me through MeeID – I’ve got my own the website after all where all my details are mentioned (and I’m also a registered member of LinkedIn) – but I’ll sign up anyway and see what happens. Thank you, Chacha!

  • http://shawscove.com Shaw

    Hi,

    Thanks for putting up this cool link. I checked it out, and I was wondering why not just use something like facebook as a business card…or maybe use meetid for the business card and facebook for the resume? Shaw

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  • Angela

    I am new to social networking and I am glad to find this post. I went right over and set up my account. It was very easy. It is nice to find something easy when you are new at something like this.

    Angela

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    Thanks for sharing this link. I have been looking for a site that allows me to create simple and elegant-looking online business cards. In fact, I’ve been wanting to have an online business card that matches well with the high-quality printed business cards I got a while ago.

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    Having a MeeID is great, its easy to setup and make. One more good thing of having a MeeID is having a unique link

  • Juan

    Interesting Website. seems like a great idea having your own internet business card.

    To your success,

    Juan

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    That form definitely looks the easiest! MeeID is also very attractive and actually very inviting to the visitor!

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    ive used this site myself and found it awesome

  • Joy Martin

    i am pretty sure that Online Business would be the next trend. With growing number of internet users, setting up an Online Business could give us more extra income.

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    Great site. A lot of useful information here. I’m sending it to some friends!

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  • http://chachafance.info ChaCha Fance

    Thank you Saif & Fannie, I appreciate it.
    I have been on a little hiatus but I will be back to posting blogs again soon so hope you’ll continue to check back!

  • http://chachafance.info ChaCha Fance

    You’re very welcome. I find that it comes in handy for putting on my social profiles, especially on Ning.

  • http://chachafance.info ChaCha Fance

    Well Shaw, as I mentioned above, MeeID is good for sharing on other social networking sites you’re on.
    You can just take a screenshot or even better use Kwout to make an image map of it, so that all the links are still intact when you post it on your profiles.