CloudSponge Contact Picker

Use address books to streamline referrals and optimize your word-of-mouth strategy

Sold out

You’ve got loyal customers, but convincing them to use your referral program is as tough as recommending a show on another new streaming service. (“It's on Syfy History Channel Plus.”)

Worst of all, even when your customers are finally ready to share your stuff with their networks, they have to manually find and enter each person’s contact info.

If only your audience could access their address books—directly from your site—to share their contacts with you.

Jump into CloudSponge.

TL;DR

too long didn't read
Grow your mailing list and conversions with an address book integration that lets users personalize referral emails
Alternative to: Chrome Contact Picker API and Improsys Contact Importer
Track data on every step of your sharing workflow and use insights to improve performance
Best for: Marketing teams, growth hackers, ecommerce developers, and business owners that want to improve word-of-mouth outreach

Overview

CloudSponge is a contact picker that lets users access their address books to personalize referral emails right from your site.

With CloudSponge, users can instantly integrate their address books with your website to make easy referrals—no need to type names manually, upload, or copy/paste.

Integrate the Contact Picker button with your existing referral form. When users click, they can choose their provider and log in to select the contacts they want to share.

You can add deep links so users can click from your site directly to the login page for a specific address book, like Google, Yahoo, Office 365, or Outlook.com.

You’ll even be able to customize the look of the Contact Picker to match your unique branding.

Address book selection

The Contact Picker lets users connect their address book and start referring in seconds.

Inside the Contact Picker, you can search for the specific names to refer and even search by domain to invite all contacts from a specific organization.

CloudSponge pulls recipient details to personalize the “From,” “To,” and “Subject” fields on all outgoing emails, so prospects will know who referred them.

And because recipients can tell the recommendation came from a trusted contact, these referrals will boost open rates and increase conversions.

Contact sorting

It’s easy to invite contacts—just search for specific people or filter by email domain.

You can track every step of your sharing workflow on CloudSponge’s analytics dashboard, which displays stats by day, week, and month.

Measure engagement with a conversion funnel that shows how many users launched the Contact Picker, connected their address books, and actually submitted contacts.

You’ll also be able to browse targeted campaign metrics using visual graphs, and identify exactly where your process needs attention in order to boost referrals.

Analytics dashboard

Track performance from a built-in dashboard, and use the insights to improve referral performance.

Best of all, CloudSponge supports dozens of languages, so you can tap into users across the globe to help expand your referral network.

The tool caters to every imaginable use case because it’s packed with software integrations like Zapier, WooCommerce, Gather, WordPress, and Bubble.

You can even plug the Contact Picker into crowdfunding pages to connect with potential donors, or use it to enable invitations for events or social networking sites.

CloudSponge also simplifies the process of sharing everything from wish lists and registries to newsletters and coupons with your contacts.

Language functionality

CloudSponge adapts to your market with tons of language and software integrations.

Relying on casual word of mouth as a marketing tool can mean one big game of telephone. (“I heard from Rose who heard from Blanche who heard from Sophia that you sell… things.”)

CloudSponge streamlines your referral strategy by letting users integrate their address book to personalize emails from your site.

Generate more leads for your referral program.

Get lifetime access to CloudSponge today!

CloudSponge Contact Picker

CloudSponge Contact Picker

Cloudsponge.com
FounderFounder
Heather Schwartzman
Head of Customer Success

Updates from CloudSponge Contact Picker

May 26, 2022

Posted Feb 9, 2023

May 26, 2022

Posted Feb 9, 2023

May 26, 2022

Posted Feb 9, 2023

Questions
Reviews

Questions & Reviews

Log in to ask a question
Showing 5 of 36 questions

Q: Customised pricing plans?

Hi I realise that you're no longer running on App Sumo, but I have a question as to whether you can customise the current plans listed on your website for specific use cases? I'm VERY early stage building a CRM tool for a specific industry, and would like to enable users to import their contacts using Cloudsponge, I imagine for a long time I will be under the 50 monthly Address Books of the annual plan (like 5 a month or something), but i really need to be able to have a customer upload more than 5 addresses at a time. Is there anything that can be done to adjust the levels included in the plan, less address books, more addresses for example? As a solo-preneur building a start-up, I can't afford the next tarrif of $75 a month just for this one feature, when i know it will get used 5 times a month. Love to hear back from you.

gavin895Apr 12, 2025
See detail
Share
Helpful?

Q: Please come back!

ASumolingPLUSJun 27, 2024
See detail
Share
Helpful?

Q: Please come back!

ASumolingPLUSFeb 29, 2024
See detail
Share
Helpful?

Q: Would you support a direct integration with Viral Loops or Prefinery or Sociamonials — all successful Appsumo ...

launches that seem to have quite a few users?

I did get a double license but am not loving automatewoo.

d54683c7b7ee4d9797b0e42035c40c3dJun 19, 2022
See detail
Founder Team
Jay_CloudSponge

Jay_CloudSponge

May 15, 2024

A: We'd love to have an integration with any/all of those companies.

If they allow you to insert your own scripts on your front-end pages, then we can probably do the integration ourselves for you.

If not, then they will need to do the integration themselves, which is sometimes a little slower due to roadmap priorities, but having their customers (like you) apply some pressure never hurts!

Which one are you using? Maybe we can work together to get a conversation started?

Share
Helpful?

Q: Hi, Welcome to AppSumo.

Looks like an interesting app. I can see a variety of use cases. What would it take to integrate/use this with a sweepstakes app like UpViral or Perkzilla. Both of those sweeps apps offer entrants more points in exchange for referring their friends. It would be great to offer entrants a friction-free way to send their referral URL to their contact list with a pre-formatted email. thanks!

dcf83198630c40638fa4da75ab820f12PLUSMay 28, 2022
See detail
Founder Team
Jay_CloudSponge

Jay_CloudSponge

May 15, 2024

A: We totally agree! We need your help to persuade the product teams at UpViral and Perkzilla to prioritize an integration like that. Unfortunately, we cannot do it ourselves unless they give their customers (you) a way to insert your own scripts into their front-end. If they do allow you to use your own scripts, drop us a line and we'll get on it immediately.

We're eager to get this type of integration done, so anything you can do to help get it prioritized would be appreciated!

Share
Helpful?

Sign up

All our deals are time-sensitive! Make sure you don't miss any of our awesome limited-time offers.