How Smartphones and QR Codes Will Revolutionize Internet Marketing
If you don’t recognize a QR code right now, you surely will in no time. Smartphones and QR codes will revolutionize marketing. When the code is scanned with a smartphone, it takes the user to the mobile website hidden within the code. Once you’ve created your Code, you can print it on newspaper ads, flyers, letterheads, business cards… Well, I’m sure you have an idea how critical QR Codes will be in promoting your business.
QR is short for Quick Response (because a smartphone can read them quickly). They are used to transfer information from inside the code and put it on your smartphone. These codes can carry up to several hundred times more data than an ordinary barcode can carry. Embedded within the code is a mobile website URL (Mobile Website Address).
QR codes will soon become commonplace and will be displayed on:
- magazine ads
- on a billboard
- A Web page
- we have t-shirt
- Newspaper ads
- business letterheads
- business letters
- window shop
- Point of sale material in store
- Decals for vans and more
…Well, I’m sure you get the idea of how critical these Codes will become in promoting your Business and this is just a scratch on the surface. As your potential customers scan QR codes with their smartphones, they’ll see a message hidden within the code or sent to a mobile website.
The hidden code will display any messages that are programmed into it, such as:
- product details
- Contact details
- Offer Details
- event details
- Competition details
- a discount coupon
- Your Twitter page
- Your Facebook page
- Your eBay store
- Your Amazon store
- Your YouTube video
As you can see, almost anything you want can be embedded in a QR code.
If you don’t have a mobile website, it is now imperative that your business build one without delay. Considering the above facts and that the CEO of Google announced that from now on, Google will develop for the mobile market first and then for the PC market. Add to that the fact that 65% of people access the internet via mobile phones, which makes it clear that if you don’t have a mobile website, you are missing out on 65% of your potential customers and that number will only grow. year after year. Combine that information with the huge potential of QR codes and the staggering number of smartphone sales, I can only urge you to build a mobile website along with at least one QR code.
The future is here, grab it with both hands before your competitors.