Shoe store using QR Codes in Catalog

Back to school shopping will be here before you know it and with that said I recieved a shoe store catalog that was “back to school” themed.
Inside the catalog there are QR Codes everywhere (if you remember our blog post about shoes, it is the same shoe store that is continuing to use QR Codes, [...]

Call Today… or Scan the QR Code

While I do think it’s possible that the picture in this advertisement was taken in the 1980’s, I was happy to see a QR Code on the ad below:

I think they did a great job of including multiple calls-to-action on this advertisement.
Perhaps a bit of direction pointing to the QR Code would have been nice [...]

How much space do QR Codes need?

We receive emails daily asking all sorts of questions pertaining to QR Codes. This might include how to add an image to a QR Code, how to add color to a QR Code, etc. The latest email we received was “How much white space should I leave around a QR Code?”. In case you’ve ever [...]

Sheets Energy Strips using QR Codes

Shout out to interlinkONE’s CEO John Foley, Jr. for the latest QR Code find. John was recently traveling for business and he happened to come across this. John found a QR Code in a product called “Sheets Energy Strips“. Inside of the Sheets package there is the product and a sticker. The sticker contains their logo and a [...]

The Mob: Guilty of Using QR Codes

Okay, so… it’s not exactly the real “Mob” that is using QR Codes.
But we did want to share this recent usage of them in 24/7 Magazine.

The QR Code directs people to a mobile website that provides a ton of help information regarding the Las Vegas Mob Experience show.
That includes:

Directions and a Map
Pricing
News
Social Networking links
An Online [...]

QR Codes on Your Concert Tickets

One of the benefits of having a CEO that travels quite frequently all over the world and has a passion for QR Codes (here’s looking at you, John Foley, Jr.) is that he’s always looking out for our favorite barcodes in the wild.
Here’s a recent souvenir that the boss brought home:

While we absolutely wish the [...]

Smartphone Statistics

Thanks to the fine folks at Pew Research, we have a new round of smartphone ownership statistics to review.
Here are a few highlights from the report that was released on 7/11/2011:

35% of American adults own smartphones
58% of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 now own a smartphone
Urban and suburban residents are roughly twice [...]

A Sexy QR Code Tattoo, Indeed

Well, there might be a rumor on the internet that I have a QR Code tattoo.
But whether it’s true or not, you don’t want to see it. I think you’ll enjoy the one in this video a bit more:

Here is a blog post with more information on how this QR Code tattoo idea came to [...]

Shopping right from your smartphone

Just a quick QR Code find that I wanted to share. Yesterday, I spotted this QR Code in the window of the Express Store in a local mall.
Of course I took out my smartphone and scanned it to see where it would take me. The QR Code linked to the app store where I could download [...]

QR Code in our 2011 PINE Buyers’ Guide Print Advertisement

Below is a picture of the advertisement that we are running in the 2011 PINE Buyers’ Guide…
If we could have done it all over again, I probably would have done a few things different; primarily, I should have included some text that provides people with a reason to scan the QR Code. But, we still [...]