ConnectMachine turns every new person you meet into a booked client. At an expo booth, a walk-in chair, or when a stranger admires your work, they scan your QR code and share their real number in a second, no scrap of paper. You note the look they wanted, and every lead exports to a CSV or syncs to your CRM on a paid plan.
Nail work runs on the people who see your sets, and you meet them everywhere: the expo booth, the walk-in who grabbed a cancellation, the stranger who stops your client in line to ask who did those nails. The hard part was never getting the compliment. It is having her number by the time you could have booked her.
Lead capture with ConnectMachine closes that gap. Instead of a handle scribbled on the back of a receipt, every new person scans a QR code, shares her real contact, and becomes a searchable lead with a note on the look she wanted, ready to book the moment she walks away.
Why the new client who loved your work never books
The second someone admires a set is the second she would book. But phones come out, she types your Instagram handle wrong, the line moves, and the moment is gone. The walk-in who filled your 2pm leaves happy and you never got a number to remind her. At a bridal expo you talk to forty brides and remember four.
The problem is not interest, it is capture. A handle scribbled on a receipt gives you no number to text, no note on the look she wanted, and no way to find her once the receipt is in the trash. By the time you could follow up, you cannot even remember which bride wanted the chrome French.
- A misspelled Instagram handle that goes nowhere.
- No number to text a reminder or a booking link.
- No note on the shape, color, or date she was planning for.
- No way to search the people you met once the day is over.
Set up chair-side and booth capture in five minutes
Your ConnectMachine card carries a QR code you can prop at your station or print for a booth. Turning it into a lead-capture spot takes a few minutes and no extra gear.
- Build your nail tech card with a link to your Instagram and portfolio, your booking link, and a save-my-contact button.
- Download the QR as a print-ready file and stand it at your chair or on the booth table.
- When someone new admires your work or sits down, ask her to scan it to open your Instagram and book.
- As she scans, she can share her own number back, so you capture a real lead in one tap.
- After the day, review your captured leads, each already a clean contact in your list.
There is nothing for her to install. The QR opens your card in her browser, with your Instagram and portfolio one tap away, and sharing her number and saving your card both happen right there, so even the client who says she is not techy is captured in seconds.
Capture the look she wanted, not just a name
A name and a number tell you nothing about whether someone is ready to book. The value is in the context, and the moment to catch it is while it is fresh. The second a new client walks away, add a quick note or a ten-second voice memo on her contact.
"Bride, wants almond, chrome over pink, wedding in October, asked about a gel that is gentle on sensitive cuticles." That note turns a cold number into a lead you can actually book, and it takes less time than saving her handle in your phone.
- The shape and color she kept coming back to.
- The date she is planning around, a wedding, a trip, a birthday.
- Any sensitivity or gel preference, so the first set goes right.
- Where you met her, the expo, the salon, a friend's chair.
After the expo, a booking list instead of a pile of receipts
A weekend at a bridal show should end as a clean list of leads, not a stack of receipts to type up on your night off. Every contact you capture lands in one place with its note attached, and from there it flows into the tools you already run.
- Review the day's captured leads while the conversations are still fresh.
- Export the list to a CSV on any plan, or sync straight to your CRM on a paid plan.
- Your notes travel with each contact, so nothing is retyped and no detail is lost.
- Set your follow-up order by who has a date coming up, not by who you happened to meet first.
Follow up by the set she actually wanted
This is where captured leads become booked chairs. Because every contact carries a note, your follow-up names the exact look and the exact date she cared about, instead of a copy-paste message that could have gone to anyone.
Later, when you have an opening or a new design to show off, you do not have to scroll to remember who to text. Ask the AI Concierge in plain language, 'who wanted chrome for an October wedding?' or 'who did I meet at the bridal expo?', and it pulls the list from your own captured leads in seconds. The people you met last month are still booking weeks later.
Lead capture everywhere you work
The expo is the obvious crowd, but the same card captures leads everywhere you already are. One QR code covers the whole business.
- Chair-side, so a first-time walk-in becomes a rebooking instead of a one-off.
- In the referral moment, when someone compliments a client's nails and she shares your card in one tap.
- In your Instagram bio and link, so a follower who loves a set is captured too.
- At vendor markets, pop-ups, and beauty shows, where you also scan other pros' paper cards into searchable contacts.
Every one of those contacts lands in the same organized list with the same notes and the same search, so your whole book lives in one place instead of scattered across DMs, screenshots, and memory.
