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Your Business Signage Can Utilize State of the Art Marketing Tactics with QR Codes

Read to discover:

• What QR codes are and why they're taking over smartphones
• What makes them the future of marketing and how your business can take advantage
• How to use them on your customized business signage

Would you like to market your business as "forward—thinking" and utilize the marketing technology of tomorrow today? You can! Quick Response (QR) codes are slated to become the next trend in marketing, advertising and social networking.

What are QR codes?

In a nutshell, QR codes are graphic barcodes that any smartphone can scan. Once scanned, the code brings you to a website. You can create a QR code for your business website, a video you've posted on YouTube, or an article you've written. The possibilities are endless. To read more about how QR codes work, click here.

How can I use them to market my business?

The cutting—edge way to use QR codes is on signs. You're already ordering a custom sign for your business; why not throw a QR code on it and simultaneously send customers to an online location? They're fairly small and they will immediately brand you as a modern, tech savvy business.

And because QR codes are currently a a new idea just beginning to push into the mainstream, people will utilize them. And they're only going to get bigger. In Japan, they're huge, where they're on movie posters, menus, business cards and signs.

How can I use?

Hold on to your hat. QR codes can do a whole lot more than send customers to your general website. Here are some exclusive ways you can incorporate one on your custom sign:

• Real estate agents are already using QR codes on their signs. While you can only put so much info on your agent signage, a QR code can direct readers to pictures of the house or even a virtual tour.
• Signs aren't always at a business' location. If you have signs advertising your shop elsewhere, a QR code can point people to a map with driving directions.
• Put a QR code on your signage that automatically brings customers to your Twitter feed so they can follow you and keep up to speed with specials or important news within your company.
• A QR code on your restaurant sign can bring customers to Open Table so they can make reservations quickly.
• Put a QR code on your sign that directs customers to the page where they can "check—in" to your establishment on Facebook or Foursquare.
• Use a QR code to point people to your Yelp page so they can write reviews.
• You can make the code link to a coupon.
• Use a QR code to send customers to a list of upcoming events at your establishment.
• You can use QR codes to make your customers feel "exclusive." You might have a sign with a photo of your best selling product and a QR code next to it — and nothing else. The code could then point customers to more info about the product, or a coupon.
• Airport signs with QR codes and send people to a website with flight updates.
• Signs at museums and in visitor centers can use QR codes to send people on self—guided tours from their phone.
• Put a QR code on car graphics to direct people to your personal website, a video or your business info.

Are those enough ideas for you?

How can I go about using those ideas?

When you order a sign from TheSignChef, we'll create and design your custom QR code absolutely free. All you have to do is point it to the correct site. We'll even help you determine the proper size for a QR code on your custom sign. Or to quickly and easily create your own QR code, simply access our Free QR Code Generator!

A couple of other points

Many people still aren't familiar with QR codes. If you're not a technology based business, many of your customers probably aren't familiar with them just yet. Provide instructions for use, even something as simple as, "point and click your smartphone."

Remember that you can update the webpage your QR code points to whenever you want. If it points to daily specials, you can update that one page every day — this means that one code can be used for a long time, or over and over.

As a business utilizing this new technology before competitors catch on, you have an edge. And if you need any help, please contact our sign specialists. Then sit back, let us do the work and watch as your business thrives!