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QR Codes – How To Use Them To Promote Your Business

May 4, 2011 By Bill Biko

QR codes are the Rubik’s cube of marketing. Many people understand they can be a great solution to promote their business, yet they only get part way to the solution by simply using a QR code to direct clients to their web site.

It just requires a little more creativity and strategy to get to the point of solving the riddle and coming up with a viable use for these crazy little codes.

The easy out is directing people directly to your site, but why not think out of the box, or in this case out of the cube?

You need to put yourself in a client’s shoes and ask what they want from you and your business. One of my favourite examples is restaurants.

What does your client want? Food!!!!! Will a link to your website solve this? What if instead you had your savvy web site designer create a custom mobile web page for your smart phone visitors that took them directly to an embedded video showing off your most popular dishes and a link to your menus? Would this ramp up client interest better than a static web page full of content?

What can you do for your industry that is out of the box? If you would like to get some ideas to help promote your business, use the contact form below to see what we can come up with for you!

 

Filed Under: Internet Marketing for Business, Local Business Web Marketing, QR Codes Tagged With: Calgary online marketing campaign, Calgary small business video web promotions, internet marketing for business, Internet marketing in calgary, mobile marketing, QR Codes, small business websites, using qr codes to market

QR Codes – Part 2 on the News

March 22, 2011 By Bill Biko

Global TV wrapped up their story about QR codes on the news tonight, here’s the video.

If you are interested in creating some of your own QR codes, here is a link to a site where you can create your own QR codes.

How to Create your own QR Code

If you would like ideas about how you could incorporate QR codes into your business contact us at 403-870-4663 and we can arrange a consultation.

Filed Under: Local Business Web Marketing, Mobile marketing, QR Codes Tagged With: internet marketing for business, Internet marketing in calgary, local business online marketing, mobile marketing, online business tools, promote your business online, QR Codes, small business websites, using qr codes to market

QR Codes on the Local News

March 21, 2011 By Bill Biko

I was recently interviewed by one of the local TV stations about QR codes. Here’s Part 1 of the 2 part series

The only problem? They spelt my name wrong!

Bill

Filed Under: QR Codes Tagged With: calgary small business internet video promotion, internet marketing for business, Internet marketing in calgary, local business online marketing, mobile marketing, QR Codes, using qr codes to market

Mobile Marketing – Is Your Business Ready?

March 3, 2011 By Bill Biko

I just finished reading a great post over at the MarketRumba website (http://www.marketrumba.com) that talks about how mobile is the next huge area of growth for business. Some of the numbers are simply astounding as far as the penetration of smart phones into the market and the growth projections over the next year. Add on top of that mobile devices like iPads, galaxy’s and a whole stream of other tablet products that either are on the market, or are arriving weekly.

It’s a market that smart business owners cannot ignore, because their competition isn’t! If you own a smart phone and have ever done a Google search, you already understand the power of being connected anywhere and anytime. Potential customers can now find out about you (or your competition) immediately rather than waiting to get to their desktop.

Because this is such a new market for many businesses, we are just at the beginning of the curve as far as new ways of engaging clients, selling products and even capturing client information. There will be new advances that will absolutely astound us when we first see them, but will be commonplace over the next few years. And business cannot ignore this.

Dianna had a great video from Google on her site which I have grabbed from YouTube and embedded below for you. I’ve also included a link below to her original article. The video itself is just over an hour, but I highly recommend you watch it if your business is not already marketing online to the mobile market.

Here is the link to Dianna’s article,   Is Your Business Mobile Ready?

Filed Under: Internet Marketing for Business, Local Business Web Marketing, Mobile marketing Tagged With: Calgary online marketing campaign, internet marketing for business, Internet marketing in calgary, mobile marketing, promote your business online, small business websites

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