QR codes could replace business cards if Badgetec has its way

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Button tags worn on clothing could change the way that businesspeople exchange contact information. Smartphones are already becoming a vital part of contact information exchange within the business world, and now Badgetec has unveiled a product based on QR codes that it is hoping will take this trend a step further by replacing business cards with a barcode. The concept is a combination of business cards and personalized badges that can be scanned by smartphones. The concept is that the QR codes can be scanned by smartphone users in order…

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Constant Contact launches new marketing service that uses QR codes to help businesses connect with consumers

QR Code Service

Constant Contact, an online marketing firm, has announced a new tool to help businesses and non-profit groups to connect with consumers. The company’s new tool, called Scan-to-Join, will allow businesses to create their own QR codes and attach them to sign-up forms. Using these forms, consumers can sign up for newsletters and other kinds of mailing lists that offer some kind of information. QR codes have been used in this way before by other companies to varying degrees of success. By using QR codes, Constant Contact believes that businesses will…

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Leading law firm to use QR codes from Vizibility as a way to connect with clients and colleagues

QR Code Legal Uses

In the legal world, reputation and history have great meaning. Attorneys rely on their reputations to attract new clients just as much as consumers use this reputation to find an attorney they can count on. As the world grows more attuned to mobile technology, people are becoming less keen on doing research themselves. So, leading law firm McCarter & English has announced that it will be using Vizibility’s online identity management platform as a way to give consumers access to attorney information. Vizibility is an identity and search platform that…

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Kimberly-Clark launches new QR code campaign to keep patients safe while in the hospital

QR Code Patient Safety Education Program

Kimberly-Clark, a U.S. corporation that primarily produces paper products but has ventures in the health care industry, has announced the launching of a new QR code campaign called the QR Code Patient Safety Education Program. The company is working with the Safe Care Campaign, an organization that works to eliminate hospital acquired infections. Together, the two organizations aim to help patients educate themselves while staying at hospitals or other health care facilities. They believe that QR codes are the best way to accomplish this aim because of the widespread ownership…

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Restaurants get their own application to help connect with mobile patrons using QR codes.

QR Code Marketing for Restaurants

Likewise Social Media Solutions, a social marketing and management firm based in Canada, has launched a new QR code application that aims to help restaurants connect with mobile consumers. The application is called QR-IQ and its goal is to make static advertisements and information available to consumers more dynamic. The new application is available to any restaurant that has an interest in using QR codes. The codes generated by the application can be scanned by any barcode scanning application that consumers can get their hands on. QR codes are becoming…

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