How to Use QR Codes Effectively

Too many retailers scoff at QR codes. Probably more than use them badly.

But for the marketer who effectively masters the art of the QR code, the rewards are not only substantial, they can be positively uplifting. Here’s the basic low down on making those quizzical squares work for you.

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How to Use QR Codes Effectively – Site Pro News

Beyond Email |17 Easy Techniques to Optimize Your Mobile Marketing

Somewhere between 60% and 70% of smartphone users check their email on mobile devices. While AWeber emails are pre-formatted for mobile reading, it’s not the only way to use mobile marketing.

Using QR codes, mobile apps, and mobile websites are increasingly important to your overall effort. Mobile marketing makes for an ever increasing audience, and you’ll be surprised at the instant boost it’ll give your business.

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Beyond Email | 17 Easy Techniques to Optimize Your Mobile Marketing – AWeber Email Marketing Tips

Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Your Small Business

You’ve been aching to get your feet wet making mobile work better for your business. Here are the perfectly steal-able ideas that get your QR campaign back in front of the scanning smart phones where you want them.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Just do what the most successful campaigns have done before you.

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Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Your Small Business – Site Pro News

 

Top 14 Things Marketers Need to Know About QR Codes

Beyond numbers, a QR code can contain Text, Hyperlinks, Phone Numbers, SMS Messages, email addresses, vCards or Calendar Entries. Making the most of all that is the brave new world of mobile marketing.

Take heart. It’s not too complicated and these 14 pointers bring the entire field into sharp focus.

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Top 14 Things Marketers Need to Know About QR Codes – Search Engine Watch

Take Your Marketing To The Streets | A QR Code Primer

QR codes bridge the gap between the real world and the mobile Internet. They allow for an incredible and all-important interaction between your customers and your business.

Here’s the perfect primer for any business owner who want to move off the internet and back into the real world where all those customers are really engaged.

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Take Your Marketing To The Streets | A QR Code Primer – AWeber Email Marketing Tips

HOW TO | Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing

Consumers in the US are just now getting familiar with Quick Response (QR) codes and what to do with them.

This crash course in how to get started using them for small business includes the hardware and software as well as plenty of strategic advice on what to do, where, and why.

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HOW TO | Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing – Mashable Business

How to Reach Your Mobile Customer Using QR Codes

With the right strategy, that quirky QR code can provide a valuable tool in reaching the difficult to reach but valuable mobile consumer.

With a means to connect to your audience in real time while providing, and receiving, relevant valuable information, it’s easy, affordable and the returns are often simply incredible.

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How to Reach Your Mobile Customer Using QR Codes – Social Media Today

Are QR Codes Good For Local Marketing? A Contrarian View

Any new, emerging technology presents small business with the challenge of good-versus-bad ROI. When it comes to QR codes, all that buzz needs to be followed up by some serious bucks.

It comes down to the time and trouble it takes you to scan a code vs. time spent punching in a URL. Today’s smart phones don’t necessarily make the QR code all that advantageous, but you might not get that message amidst all the hype.

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Are QR Codes Good For Local Marketing? A Contrarian View – Search Engine Watch

 

How to Use QR Codes to Promote Your Business

Use of smart phones is expected to double by the end of 2011. But as all those newly smart users catch on, the smart small business will stay ahead of the curve.

One important way to capture interest is with new, easily scanned QR codes that let business instantly promote VIP access for their best customers (those who are interested and engaged) along with lots of other uses. There’s plenty of catchy ways to incorporate this new technology into your marketing plan.

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How to Use QR Codes to Promote Your Business – Social Media Today