Are you, as am I, a professional still relying on email to get private, confidential or customized data to your customers?

These days we live in the clouds. This isn’t a metaphor for a high-rise urban landscape of the modern era – this is a data cloud, the immersive land of cloud this and that – a landscape which replaces the office buildings, the stylized campuses and the cliché offices with the cubicles and water fountains. A very respectable corporate employee may never make it out of a dressing gown all day. She may mow the lawn during lunchbreak or attend the month-end sales meeting next to the swings in the neighborhood park.  But it’s been like this for years already and while there have been leaps and bounds in technology, in this World of Cloud with both subscriber, database-driven and dynamic data delivery systems, little has changed for those relying on information, product or data delivery via good of fashioned email.

We have all unwittingly contributed to what we now know as email etiquette, the basic formatting of the various templates of professional emails and the content boundaries by which an email becomes “too long”. 

And yet little has changed in the 25-year history of email. From @subscriber domains, subject and body fields and email signatures, even the most desirable feature, the email attachment, has changed little. We do have a handful of cloud-based solutions to get us past the attachment data size limit. And even when these quotas are overly generous by the grace of our email provider, we still battle to get our attachments through firewalls, spam filters and the download limits of our recipients. So why no improvement to attachment delivery you may ask? Well there is…

Introducing Fileteam.com – this is the solution!

It’s quite simple and intuitive really. You upload your files/attachments right on the landing page, you can add a note to each of these files giving it a description, you choose to “finalize your upload” and you receive a secure link which you then include into your email.

When the recipient clicks on this link, they are guided to a secure web page where they see a list of all the files that you uploaded, in the correct order and with the corresponding note next to each file. That’s the kind of level of professionalism that we’re talking about.

It gets better. In addition to being able to download, the recipient can choose to view the attachments right in their browser on a file by file basis – a most cost effective way of saving that precious cellular bandwidth. And with a click of a button, both sender and receiver are in an instant live document sharing session. Somebody sitting in front of a PC can steer an observer on a cell phone to a unique single page, in a 500 page document, in under 3 seconds.

The attachment links will work through text message and social media too.  The only way to experience this is to try it. Believe me, you’ll be happy you did. And don’t forget to come back here and leave a comment to say that I told you first. Oh yeah, and it’s free too!