📱 Best Platforms
Upwork (business card digitization and contact data entry jobs), Fiverr (business card to spreadsheet gigs), LinkedIn (pitch sales teams, conference organizers, and BNI networking group members who collect cards at events).
📖 The Hustle
Salespeople and business development professionals return from conferences with pockets full of business cards — then never enter them into their CRM. You take photos or scans of business cards and enter the contact info into a spreadsheet or CRM, including name, title, company, phone, email, and LinkedIn URL. Charge $0.50-1.00 per card or $15-25/hour for bulk batches.
🚀 First Step
Collect 10 business cards (or download images of them), type all fields into a structured spreadsheet, and time yourself per card to set pricing.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Use CamCard or Adobe Scan's business card mode to OCR cards and auto-populate fields — then manually verify every field for accuracy.
- Always look up the person on LinkedIn to verify their current title and company — business cards from 6 months ago are frequently outdated.
- Offer conference prep services as a package: pre-event research on attendees, post-event card processing, and CRM import.
🛠 Tools & Resources: CamCard, Adobe Scan, Google Sheets, HubSpot CRM, LinkedIn