[fitz2kleen]

[fitz2kleen]

If this is a tool you would like to use give us an email and we can put you onto a very nice man, a very very very nice man lol.
with apps popping up on every mobile this will get your business saved to potentual customers phones.

Regards Mark

[Robert Watson]

QR Code Reader. Very handy. Hope they catch on but been very slow in this country.

http://searchengineland.com/what-is-a-qr-code-and-why-do-you-need-one-27588

[garry22]

I've had QR generating software for about eighteen months. Is this something new?

[Allan Simmons]

We've just started adding these to our retail products and it takes you to our online shop checkout with one of the scanned products in the basket ready.  Will let you know how it goes.

All done using free online QR code generator and using a shopp plugin on our wordpress website.  Easy to set up, let's see how well it works.

Al.

[garry22]

Allan,

Re; Shop plugin.

Can you add custom datafeed CSVs straight into that plug in set up?

My datafeed software (part of a membership scheme) are pre populated with Amazon and Commission Junction). I cannot however add a custom datafeed file and have been looking for something that would allow that.

Garry

[Allan Simmons]

Hi Garry

I have to be honest and say I do not know.  the link is https://shopplugin.net/

Our web developer set it up for us, I just manage the back end now it is set up.

Hope that helps.

Al.

[garry22]

Thanks Allan, I'll take a look.

[Neil Williams]

At the risk of sounding very very old, just why would I as a carpet cleaner need something like this?

[garry22]

Neil,

I presume you mean the QR barcode generator? Good question.

You can code any "destination" into these things (link to a web page), whichwhen scanned, will open up that page..

For example, you could print it on your business cards so that people who received them could effectively "click" straight to your site.

You could say, add them to your leaflets, linking through to a time sensitive offer etc. The barcode would be the same but your offer could change daily (less printing costs)

A restaurant could put a link to their daily "specials" page, which again, could change daily (or even hourly).

I hope that makes sense.

they are not the most incredible thing since the telephone but are a useful addition to your marketing arsenal.

[Neil Williams]

Gary, thanks for the explanation.
I take it we have reached the point in evolution whereby people now can't be a.r.s.e.d to type into their machines x,y,z.co.uk but instead want the instant scan and see method.
I'm equally amazed by technology but gobsmacked by lazyness.

[Allan Simmons]

That's it exactly Neil, people are so used to "instant" everything.  QR codes also allow you to very accurately measure their use as they can have specific landing pages to track how many visitor etc and what they do while there.  Then you can find out more about what's working and what's not.

I believe if you're not in on theses things somebody will be and benefiting.  It's like the Google remarketing stuff, I 'FELL' FOR IT, i'd been looking at a sound system and obviously Google remarketing was on the site I'd visited as everywhere else I went after this companies site their remarketing ad followed me around.  I gave in when there it was, about the fifth or sixth time i'd seen it a couple of weeks later, an offer for £20 off.  Now the mad thing is the unit was £40 more than I could have bought it for so even with £20 off it was still £20 more than I could have paid BUT they kept reminding me i'd looked at one, and i bloody bought one.

It's not tricking people, so when I say I Fell for it, I mean, that company just kept showing me something they knew I was interested in until I bought it, it's about helping your client make the buying decision and if it's right for them they will thank you for it an come back time and time again, win/win.

Al.

[garry22]

just an update.

I saw a post by Chris Straker about this. He has them printed on self adhesive labels on his van. Handy for people passing by.