Aleyda Solis Blog | Web Enthusiast and Internet Marketer

What is a QR-Code?

Is a type of two dimensional bar code or matrix code that allows you to transmit all kind of information, numeric and alphabetical characters (in high speed) to camera equipped mobile phones or to any other device with a QR code reader or scanner.

How are QR-Codes used?

QR-Codes are very popular in Japan among marketers. They are placed along magazine’s ads and even billboards, carrying coupon offers information or URL’s (with direct redirection) where people can directly purchase what is being advertised.  It is a very straightforward and fast way for “print” or “outdoor” publicity to interact with potential costumers.

How can I generate my own QR-Code?

By using useful, free and easy to use online Kaywa’s QR-Code generator.

For example, I generated my blog URL (http://www.aleydasolis.com/blog/) in QR-Code:

How can I read QR-Codes?

You can install Kaywas’s QR-Code reader in your mobile phone.

Where can I learn more about QR-Codes, their use and possibilities?

• Japanese QR codes provide marketers a glimpse of the future
• QR codes: In Japan, Billboards Take Code-Crazy Ads to New Heights
• QR codes extremely popular
• Japan’s QR Codes Being Tested in SF
• QR Codes and Japanese Cellular Phones
• QR Code Features
• QR Codes And Physical Hyperlinking, No More Typing And No More Search Engines?
• Mainstream America is Ready for Bar Codes - Converging “Realspace” and “Mobilespace”

My special thanks to Elias for the post idea!

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