Method3 · Ronald Partridge
From the handshake to the record
A roadmap for keeping the people you meet. The work starts on the iPad in the room.
The situation
A conversation dies between the handshake and the CRM
The room went well. The follow-up never reached the system.
- A card goes in a pocket.
- A name goes in a phone.
- By Monday neither is a contact.
The complication
The note is a memory The system is somewhere else
Sometimes that system is Salesforce. Sometimes it predates the word CRM.
- The rep remembers a person.
- The system holds rows.
- Nothing carries one to the other.
The answer
The capture is the iPad in the room
Three steps on one screen.
- The picture A card, or a LinkedIn screen.
- The note Typed, or spoken.
- The read A person checks it before it is saved.
Try it now
A blank stays blank
Photograph a card. Watch what it fills and what it leaves alone.
- The name comes off the picture.
- A field it cannot read stays empty.
- Nothing saves until you have read it.
Open the scanner
For your team
Each rep's iPad holds the night
In the morning, each rep exports. The file is the handoff.
- No shared server. The night stays on the device.
- No shared password. The iPads do not share a login.
- Rows, not devices. A manager collects the export.
Over the system you already run
The file goes where your system already looks
This page never logs into your org.
Salesforce
A Contact CSV: FirstName, LastName, Title, Company, Description, LeadSource set to Meetup.
Data Loader, a Flow, or middleware you trust upserts it.
The older system
A CSV, a vCard, or JSON.
It goes on the share a nightly job watches, or on the queue the estate already uses.
Why it holds
The same rule as a department file
Ronald builds for the PA State Department. A machine may draft. A person decides.
- Generated code is a draft.
- A person reviews it.
- Nothing merges itself.
Roadmap
Four horizons Start with tonight
Each horizon stands on the one before it. Dates come after the team is named.
- Tonight This scanner.
- One team Your event. Your export.
- Your system The file it already eats.
- The pattern A photo in. Strict fields. A person confirms. The record you trust.
The ask
Walk it once Then name the team and the system
That is enough to draw the first horizon.
Open the scanner
The line
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