QR Code Fun

 

People can have fun with QR codes and make art out of it. It can be an intreging way to attract customers to your website and get them to scan your QR code.

QR Codes adventure

RB Tech posted the video which explains how QR codes work and also shows you how to create your own QR codes as well. Ellie goes around that city looking for intreging QR codes, walking around the streets of a city looking for codes can become an adventure to see what the codes can lead to.

QR Codes in the Classroom

http://www.pbsmartessentials.com/engage-my-customers/tanyasampson/qr-codes-in-the-classroom/

Being able to keep children interested and engaged in the classroom can have its challenges. In todays generation, kids have portable personal technology such as cell phones, iPods, iPads and other tablets, and laptops it can be challenging for teachers to keep kids focused in the classroom and focused. The periodic table can be used interactively in the classroom with videos from QR codes.  This technology can be used at all different levels of education; so examples of how to use the technology includes launching a survery or create a pop quiz with up to ten questions; or a survey for testing feedback.

Alberta Man using cowboy hats and QR codes

http://albertaventure.com/2012/03/qr-zap/

An Alberta business man, Steve Bently, says that the Calgary Stampede is one of the best networking opportunities of the year. He felt like finding a creative way for people to know about his business, instead of the tradional business cards. He put a QR code on his cowboy hat and when talking and meeting people he encourages them to scan the QR code which directs them to his website. Bently fells that as the QR codes have become very popular in the last few years, but he feels that most companies are not very creative with their webistes and QR code designs. Bently says he has worked with marketers who help companies use technology in more effectively and creative ways.

Attack of the QR code - Calgary Herald

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Attack+code/6401505/storyhtml
The Calgary Herald has an article about how people are scaming QR code users or attack tagging or "attaging".  Wher people are placing stickers on company's posters where it is very hard to be able to detect that these stickers have been placed over top of the original. These sticker when people scan them with their smart phones it will send them to a fake website which usually have a trojan linked to them and the website looks very similar to the actual company's website.

QR Code Business Cards

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/07/30-creative-qr-code-business-cards/

This websites looks at the 30 most creative and stunning QR code business cards on the internet; people today love QR codes and technology as well as the new up and coming technology. It is very smart for businesses to put QR codes directly on their websites, because then it can send people directly to your website so that people can either learn more about what your company does as well as specific product information or product coupons. Also the QR code could connect to the business's facebook page.

Boston Pizza QR Code giveaway

Companies can use QR codes to link to customer satisfaction surveys such as this poster from Boston Pizza they have a QR code to linking to a customer satisfaction survey, but they also have an incentive for customers to complete the survey. For example in this case Boston Pizza is giving away either an iPod or $1,000, it has become very popular for companies to have customer satisfaction surveys. Many of them have an incentive for the customer as well as for the company; for example most restaurants will give away something small like a free desert or a free appetisers as incentives for customers to complete the survey. Also companies benefit by receiving feed back from their customers to know how to be able to better serve them in the future.

Tim Hortons 'Free Coffee a year' QR Code

Organizations such as Tim Hortons can use QR codes for contests to attract customers to their businesses. They can use QR codes to like to websites for contests or product give aways or coupons and many other things as well.

How QR codes can grow your business

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-qr-codes-can-grow-your-business/

This article goes into great detail the steps that companies can take to create their own QR codes using various free QR code generating websites, such as the one I had mentioned in my last posting. This article is essentially "how to use QR codes for dummies" it explains how to set up a QR code and how it works with the code readers. Then it explains that you need to share the code and can have it known by customers to be able to develop a community, and how you can have it likeable on facebook. The article gives ideas of where you can put your codes, such as on your business cards, ticket stubs, the sides of trucks and trailers, etc. What the company could link those codes to like directions to the business, coupons and sales, customer feed back surveys. Also they provide examples of what other copanies have done.

Kaywa QR Code generator

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

This is a website that makes it very easy for companies to set up their own QR codes. QR code generator can make QR codes that link to url websites, text, phone numbers, and sms messages. This would be a very easy way for many small companies to be albe to set up QR codes and to be able to keep up with the changing times and staying current with the latest marketing trends.

What are QR Codes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

QR Codes is an abriviation of Quick Response codes, which is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode, or a two-dimentional code, the QR code origniated to be first used in the automotive industry. QR codes today are used is soo many different applications, such as by retail stores, corporate companies, and even today I seen a car for Darcy Davis who is running in the election, and who had a large QR code on the car.

Jumping into the world of blogging

Hello,

I am a student at Olds College starting a blog for a class. :)
The topic I have chosen for this project is QR Codes and how businesses use them and what they are and how people can use them.
Hello world!