Blog
Guides, comparisons, and tips on digital business cards and professional networking
Tutorials
Step-by-step walkthroughs. Start here if you have the app open and want to get something done in the next ten minutes.
- Tutorials
Getting the Most Out of AtlasLinq Pro
What actually changes about the way you use AtlasLinq once you are on Pro: multiple profiles, the card scanner, custom QR codes, the analytics that matter, and when not to bother upgrading.
7 min read - Tutorials
How to Auto-Sync Your Leads to Google Contacts, Zoho, or HubSpot
Connect a CRM once and every lead captured on your cards flows into it automatically. How the sync works, how to backfill existing leads, why email is the deduplication key, and where the credentials live.
6 min read - Tutorials
How to Set Up Your AtlasLinq Enterprise Team and Admin Dashboard (Step by Step)
A step-by-step guide to creating an AtlasLinq Enterprise team: invite members, set up company branding, organize departments, and use the web admin dashboard for analytics and leads.
5 min read - Tutorials
How to Capture and Export Leads From Your Digital Business Card
Turn profile views into contacts. Learn how AtlasLinq lead capture works, how to review leads in the dashboard, export them to CSV, and sync them to Google Contacts, Zoho, or HubSpot.
6 min read - Tutorials
Getting Started: Create Your First Digital Business Card With AtlasLinq
A complete beginner walkthrough: download AtlasLinq, create your profile, add your details, and share your first digital business card by NFC, QR code, or link.
5 min read
Guides
How the pieces actually work, and what to expect on iPhone versus Android. Worth reading when something behaved differently than you expected.
- Guides
Do Digital Business Cards Work on iPhone? What Actually Happens When You Tap
Receiving a card works on every iPhone. Reading an NFC tag starts at the iPhone XS and comes with conditions. What each model does, and where NameDrop fits.
5 min read - Guides
What to Put on a Digital Business Card (and What to Leave Off)
Adding a field is free, which is what goes wrong with most cards. A field-by-field guide to what earns its place, what to cut, and a four-second test for the result.
5 min read - Guides
Digital Business Card Etiquette: Asking For and Sharing Contacts
Sharing digitally asks more of the other person than handing over paper did. When to offer, when not to ask, how to read a refusal, and what a capture form owes someone.
5 min read - Guides
How to Follow Up After a Networking Event (Timing and Templates)
What decays after an event is memory, not interest. The five minutes on the first evening that make every later message possible, and what a second message has to contain.
5 min read - Guides
Team Roles and Permissions: Who Can See What in the Dashboard
A plain guide to the three AtlasLinq dashboard roles, exactly what each one can do, how to assign them, what the audit log records, and why revoking access is not the same as removing a member.
4 min read - Guides
Object Cards: Giving a Table, a Room, or a Listing Its Own Card
Object cards are digital cards that belong to a thing rather than a person: restaurant tables, hotel rooms, property listings, equipment. What they do that a plain QR code does not, and when they are worth it.
6 min read - Guides
How to Create a Branded Company Card Directory at /share/yourcompany
Set up a single branded directory of digital business cards for your whole team. Learn how AtlasLinq company slugs, member cards, locked fields, and branding work together.
6 min read - Guides
How to Write Your AtlasLinq Profile to an NFC Tag or Sticker
Step-by-step guide to writing your AtlasLinq digital business card to a blank NFC tag or sticker, for phone backs, trade show booths, reception desks, and printed cards.
7 min read - Guides
Can Someone Reprogram Your NFC Business Card?
A blank NFC tag can be rewritten by anyone holding a phone. What password protection on an NTAG chip actually stops, what it does not, and when a tag is exposed enough to care.
5 min read - Guides
What a Trade Show Badge Scan Actually Gives You
A scanned badge is a copy of a registration form, not a record of a conversation. Why that produces stale data and an awkward consent question, and what changes when the visitor types their own details.
6 min read - Guides
How to Share Your Business Card Without an App: NFC, QR, and Link Methods
Share your digital business card via NFC tap, QR code, or link without the recipient needing to install any app. Works on iPhone and Android.
6 min read
Comparisons
Side-by-side looks at the options, including the cases where AtlasLinq is the wrong choice.
- Comparisons
NFC vs QR Code for Business Cards: Which Should You Use?
Both, and in a specific order. Where each one genuinely wins, how each one fails in front of a customer, and why the link matters more than the argument between them.
5 min read - Comparisons
AtlasLinq vs Blinq: An Honest Comparison (2026)
Blinq is the established name in this category. Where the two products genuinely differ on team size, hardware and pricing, where they do not, and the cases where Blinq is the better choice.
5 min read - Comparisons
Linq Discontinued Digital Business Cards: What to Do Now (2026)
Linq moved to AI messaging and no longer sells digital business cards. What that means if you own one, how to tell whether your card still works, and how to move across.
7 min read