Contact Keeper Giveaway and Review

Need to get organized in 2011? I know I do, which is why I was so excited to accept these Contact Keepers to review for my blog, and offer a giveaway of your choice of keeper to 3 lucky winners. Just look at what I was storing all of my blog contact info, business cards and notes in before Contact Keeper entered my life. Yikes, right?

I went from two separate bulky folders to one slim yet hearty and portable keeper, the medium Contact Keeper, pictured below. I can’t tell you how happy I am to have everything in one place, finally.

Contact Keepers come in three different sizes:

The LARGE Contact Keeper (10″ x 12½”) portfolio was designed to be used in meetings.  Thirty letter-sized contact pages are included. This size was perfect for me at work. Even though we live in the digital age, I didn’t always like to lug my laptop around to meetings, and I hate storing all of my business contacts in Outlook. I like to be able to have important information tangible and easily accessible, as computers crash. And, of course, the day my work computer crashed, I needed to reach a contact and could do so because I had his business card and all of my notes tucked safely in my Contact Keeper. With a calendar and room for a notepad, this Contact Keeper was my favorite one.

The MEDIUM Contact Keeper (6¼” x 7½”) is intended to be used during short meetings, and when walking through trade shows.  It includes thirty contact pages. I used my medium Contact Keeper for my blog and all of my personal contacts. Surprisingly, I used all of the pages plus all of my refill pages. I had no idea that I had that many business cards lying around my house. Instead of storing all of this information in two areas in my house, now every contact I have is now safely stored in one place, right next to my computer. I love that this keeper could easily fit in a carry-on and I wish that I had one last year when I went to my Book Bloggers Convention.

The SMALL Contact Keeper (2½” x 4″) is carried in a pocket to hold business cards for distribution, and to allow for the collection of them. Each note pad has thirty adhesive pages that are the size of business cards, which you can write your notes on and stick on the business cards. When you are on the go and need to pass out a business car, one of those metal pocket holders doesn’t really do the trick. I could easily slip this into my pocket or purse and whip it out if someone asked for my card. It’s also a very discrete way of keeping track of who you met if you network at an event.

The LARGE and MEDIUM Contact Keepers have slots on the outside so you can quickly and easily collect business cards. Refill kits are available and Contact Keepers can even be customized with a business or event logo. Pretty fancy, right? I had been using my large and small Contact Keepers at work until I lost my job last month. However, I do plan on taking my small and medium Contact Keepers t this year’s BookExpo America and Book Blogger Convention, and will use my large Contact Keeper for job interviews and job leads.

If you have some leftover Christmas or holiday money, why not consider making a great investment by purchasing one of these Contact Keepers. They are now available at 1,100 Office Depot stores and at Office Depot. Isn’t it time you got organized? I absolutely love these keepers and would buy them on my own, or buy them as a gift for anyone I know.

 

CONTACT KEEPER GIVEAWAY  

RULES:
**Open to US residents
**No P.O. boxes, please
**Must include your email address in comment (You don’t have to type it in your comment, just use your “real” email account when you sign in to leave a comment)
**All comments must be separate to count  

HOW TO ENTER:    

+1  ENTRY: Comment here and tell me why you need to win a Contact Keeper. Are you in desperate need for organization? Do you have hundreds of business cards lying around you home or office? Or, do you just love winning free stuff? Make sure to list which size contact keeper you want, as each of the 3 winners gets to pick which size keeper they want.

+1 MORE ENTRY: Follow me on Facebook

+1  MORE ENTRY: Follow me on Facebook and share a link on your wall with the following comment I entered the Contact Keeper Giveaway here: http://bit.ly/hfkOIb. Make sure to leave a comment with a link to your Facebook profile.

+1  MORE ENTRY: Follow me on Twitter

+1  MORE ENTRY: Follow me on Twitter and tweet the following RT @NerdGirlBlogger I entered the @ContactKeeper #Giveaway here: http://bit.ly/hfkOIb. You can tweet every day for even more chances to win. Make sure to link to your tweet in a comment below.

+1  MORE ENTRY: Subscribe to my blog via email or Feedburner.

+1 MORE ENTRY: Visit contactkeeper.com and tell me something new you learned or noticed about these products.

+1 MORE ENTRY: Visit Twitter to follow Contact Keeper.

+1  ENTRY: Visit Facebook to “Like” Contact Keeper.

+5 MORE ENTRIES: Write about this giveaway on your own blog. Make sure to post a link to this giveaway and leave me a copy of your link via a comment here.

Contest ends Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at midnight.  Good luck to you all!