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Sadly the festive season is over for yet another year and has been replaced by New Year resolutions, most likely fitness based ones designed to remedy the excessive amount of food and drink we have all consumed. But this year there is also particular focus on the vast amount of money that shoppers spent purchasing [...]
Marketers have shown some great uses of QR codes recently, allowing brands to genuinely innovate and engage with consumers. A current example is the HMV and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment campaign. The campaign sees the launch of a new virtual shop that uses QR codes, enabling mobile users to buy DVDs on the spot [...]
The Hayes Lane club have done a deal with the Betfair betting website for all their players to sport QR codes on their heads tomorrow as they face Leyton Orient in the FA Cup first round.
Daniel Johnson is famous for styling Rooney’s hair – albeit with the help of a little surgery – and will [...]
It was a great couple of days at mediaPro this week with a fantastic turnout of delegates and exhibitors descending on Kensington Olympia.
Over 150 companies exhibited, ranging from start-ups to established big brands. Among those giving seminars at the event were British Airways, LoveFilm.com, Google and Z-CARD®. Z-CARD® delivered three seminars over the course of [...]
MediaPro is a top marketing and media exhibition held in November every year at Olympia, London. The event is always extremely popular, with over 150 expert suppliers of marketing solutions including new online and offline technologies and social media. With the event attracting over 50 major brands including Unilever, ITV and Universal Pictures at the 2010 [...]
Most of us have experienced the frustration when you struggle to remember where you left your keys. However, QR codes may provide the key solution in tracking them down.
The idea is that you attach a QR code to your key ring which would provide a QR code download link and instructions on the back. When [...]
Like QR codes, Microsoft Tags connect people with information, entertainment, and interactive experiences in the digital world. The benefits to companies seeking to increase customer engagement are huge – Tag instantly puts your information into their hand! Nike used a Tag-enabled Z-CARD® to draw visitors to their retail tent at the Penn Relays event in Philadelphia.
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According to new research* companies that use Facebook and its fan page
module to market themselves to customers can significantly increase sales, word-of-mouth marketing and customer loyalty.
Plymouth University recently used a Z-CARD® for their University Summer Ball and included a QR code leading to the event’s Facebook page. This provided the ultimate form of communication as [...]
There’s more to QR codes than simply providing a gateway to mobile sites. One example is the ability to share your contact details more easily. You can store your contact information in vCard format, and with one simple scan of the QR code, all of the information stored on your vCard is effortlessly transferred to [...]
Further proof of the benefits of QR-code technology has been demonstrated recently in South Korea, with Tesco’s Home Plus operation opening up “virtual stores” in subway stations.*
Home Plus’s research showed that Koreans were time poor, technology rich and resented the idea of taking time out of their busy schedules to shop; something that many of [...]
