Increase customer recognition and loyalty by branding QR codes with a logo.

QR codes can be a great marketing tool and drive sales, specially for mobile marketing actions and campaigns. Placing a logo or embedding a graphic into the QR code increases the visibility and the recognition for the brand, the product or the service being offered.

Branded QR codes are not limited to companies or marketing promotions alone, they can also be used for social media engagements. These QR codes can be seen as physical hyperlinks, extending beyond the "Like" button and the "Follow Me" buttons on the Internet and make these scannable "Like" and "Follow Me" QR codes available anywhere anytime in the real physical world.

Generating your own branded QR codes

Examples of social media branded QR codes

The working examples above we vreated with the free "Branded QR Code Generator". All that is needed is a web address target that the QR code should send the user too and a logo or graphic that needs to be embedded. You can edit the caption of the QR code and also ajust the size of the embedded logo.

Branding QR codes raises awareness, increases scan rates and makes them look unique. Always test branded QR codes thouroughly before putting them to use.

'Making your own branded QR codes', a video with instructions on how you can make your own branded OR codes, based on an online generator in colour from 0D0A.

Personal Twitter Profile in a QR Code

Spread your Twitter presence offline in the real world, and anywhere else for that matter, with this physical mobile hyperlink to your Twitter social media profile in the form of a scanable QR code. It's fun There is also a video on how to use this QR code generator

It does not need Twitter passwords or any other of your private or personal information and can even put your public Twitter profile image into the QR code if you like.

The social media QR code image can be placed on blogs or website pages, printed on stickers or t-shirts and will lead mobile phone users to you and what you have to say on Twitter.

You can make your own personal "Twitter Me!" social media QR code, for use as you please, using the free 'Twitter Profile QR Code Generator', or the Twitter Follow Me Generator.

France adopting and using QR codes at an increasing rate.

This is despite a very good French 2D barcode system based on the Datamatrix called 'flashcode' which has been around for quite a few years.

During a recent visit to Paris I perchance bumped into this QR code embedded in the pavement on a street close to the 'Opera'.

If you scan this QR code with a mobile phone QR reader or an online QR code reader you will get: https//bit.ly/bHwve4. Which leads you to a mobile webpage '09.12.41_PALAIS_BERLITZ' with the most interesting facts and videos about public dissorder at the buildings or places where the QR Codes are located.

An interesting concept by Raspou Team and sure to get QR code hunters scanning the streets of paris for more of these informational QR codes embedded in the pavements of Paris. A map with all the locations of the QR codes as well as how the ceramic QR code tiles were made can be found on their website Paris by RapouTeam

QR codes and how to use them

 The QR code above has (as indicated) a website address embedded in it and when scanned with a QR code reader will pass this address along to the reader application to work with, usually resulting in the opening of a web browser and navigation to the website.

How to use QR codes

Mobile phones with cameras can read these 2D barcodes by using a barcode scanner application on the phone. In some countries the mobile phones come with pre-installed QR code reader software, and if not there are many resources on Internet to download and install these 2D code readers.

Scanning the QR code triggers the mobile phone to go to a website location. In this case it is this blog. Interesting to note that the QR4 blog has a mobile version of the blog.

QR Codes Connect

By placing QR codes anywhere in the real-world, like posters, business cards, packaging, stickers, you name it, it becomes possible to provide information on location. Whether it be a vCard, loading and playing a video or music, navigating to a mobile website or service or simply dialing a number, QR codes are very usefull little 2D barcodes.