How To Generate A QR Code

Greetings Readers!

Today one of the things that I am grateful for is the fact that there are wonderful people out there who come up with new technology and allow us to use it for free!  If you are one of those people, then I am grateful for you.  If you happen to not be one of those people, I'm still grateful for you and for the fact that you're reading my blog!

Last week I wrote a blog on QR Codes.  These are similar to bar codes that were first created and introduced in Japan where they are now very common.  QR is short for Quick Response and can be read quickly by a cell phone. 

Today I thought it would be helpful if I blogged on How to Generate QR Codes.

There are so many different ways that QR Codes can be used and the only limitations that I can see  really would be the limitations that we might impose on ourselves.  

Some things a QR Code can do are:

• Redirect to a website
• Allow someone to tour a company or destination
• To show a Movie Trailer
• To Review a Movie
• Send an Email
• As a Business Listing in a Directory
• In a Business Card
• Bookmark a website
• In Print Link a Reader straight to your website
• Send a Text Message
• Your Child's Ballet Recital
• Link to GPS Coordinates
• Link a Google Map or Bing Map
• Dial a phone number
• Link to an App

The possibilities are endless!  Your business, no matter how small or large could use QR codes in a number of ways.  You might auto generate one next to every product on your website with all the product details, the URL link to the page and contact information so that the information can be shared via someone's cell.

Add them to any print advertising, flyers, posters, invites, evites, whatever containing whatever information needed.

The great thing about this is that you and I don’t have to figure out how to make QR Codes on our own. Lots of people have already created QRCode generators for us. These generators take a few inputs like what web address we want our code to link to, and then generate a code for us.

One of my favorite QR Code generating sites is http://www.qrstuff.com/   I really like this one because you can generate your code free of charge or sign up for a paid account and they have tons of options for me to choose from.

If you’re a novice you can just take the default settings and make a simple QRCode.

If you are an expert you can do advanced things like change the color of the QRCode so it doesn’t look so boring. You can change the error correction so you can draw inside or cover up part of the QRCode.  You can even try out some of the alternatives to QR Codes.

Once you try it out, let me know what you think.  I believe you will find this an absolutely great site to generate your codes.

Until next time...

Dee Price

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