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!