CloudSponge Contact Picker

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

    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

    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!

    Plans & features

    Deal terms & conditions

    • Lifetime access to CloudSponge Contact Picker
    • All future Branded Plan updates
    • No codes, no stacking—just choose the plan that’s right for you
    • You must activate your license within 60 days of purchase
    • Ability to upgrade or downgrade between 5 license tiers
    • GDPR compliant
    • Only for new CloudSponge Contact Picker users who do not have existing accounts
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    60 day money-back guarantee. Try it out for 2 months to make sure it's right for you!

    Features included in all plans

    • RESTful Contacts API
    • All address book providers
    • Universal contact picker
    • Custom stylesheet and fonts
    • Custom languages and labels
    • Use your own OAuth credentials
    • 24/7 automated uptime monitoring
    • Co-marketing opportunities
    • Separate settings for each site license
    • Site-specific analytics and charts
    • Zapier integration

    License Tier 1

    • All features above included
    • 1 website(s)
    • Unlimited address books
    • White labeling

    License Tier 2

    • All features above included
    • 5 website(s)
    • Unlimited address books
    • White labeling

    License Tier 3

    • All features above included
    • 10 website(s)
    • Unlimited address books
    • White labeling

    From the founders

    Heather_CloudSponge

    Heather Schwartzman

    Head of Customer Success

    May 26, 2022

    Important Links:

    📚 https://www.cloudsponge.com/developer/getting-started/

    🔄 https://www.cloudsponge.com/integrations/

    📺 https://www.youtube.com/c/Cloudsponge

    🛣️ https://github.com/orgs/cloudsponge/projects/1/views/1

    👫 https://www.cloudsponge.com/partner-program/

    ❓FAQs❓

    ✔️ What happens when my user clicks the “get contacts,” button?

    Your user will be securely granted access to their address book library, like Google Contacts. After your user selects and submits their contacts, the payload will be sent according to your use case and callbacks. For instance, if you have a referral form, the contacts can be configured to prefill the form with comma-separated email addresses that can then be sent out as email referrals. Check out AppSumo’s referral form. They use the CloudSponge Contact Picker. Just click the little yellow icon that has been customized to match the AppSumo site and you can see the Contact Picker live in action.

    ✔️ Do you send emails? 📩

    The Contact Picker takes care of allowing your users to share their contacts with you. What you do with those contacts is up to you. We do not send out emails for you. You will need an existing sharing feature. However, we do have partnerships and integrations with some great referral programs 👫 and a Zapier integration.

    ✔️ Are you a referral program?

    No, but we integrate beautifully with referral programs. Check out our integrations and give us a shout 📢 if you would like to request one. If we get enough interest, we’ll do our best to make it happen and add it to our roadmap.

    ✔️ What counts as an import?

    We only count successful ✅ address book imports towards your total. If a user abandons their import midway, it doesn’t count. Whether your user imports 2 or 2,000 contacts in one session, it only counts as one address book import 🙌

    ✔️ Can I customize each one of my websites?

    Heck yeah, you can. Sumo-lings 🌮 that purchase our deal are automatically getting our branded plan with premium features like customizations. You can match the Contact Picker to your website, use one of our themes, set up various languages, sources, callbacks, etc.

    ✔️ Do subdomains, aliases, and development sites count towards my allotted sites? 💻

    We only count production domains towards your site limit. You can add as many dev sites, subdomains, and aliases as you need.

    ✔️ Is my user’s data secure 🔐

    Abso-freaking-lutely! We are secure, private, and compliant. We follow all GDPR compliance and regulations. Data is passed through our server just long enough for your website to download the data. We NEVER save anything to disk.

    ✔️ What languages do you support?

    We currently support English, French, Japanese,Chinese,German,Spanish,Italian,Dutch, and Portuguese.

    ✔️ What happens if I go over my import or site limit?

    All sites and import overages will follow our volume pricing structure. https://www.cloudsponge.com/pricing/volume/

    ✍️ Write to us with any questions we haven’t answered here support@cloudsponge.com❤

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