We’ve built QRky to offer you the best QR code functionality on your business cards. Here, we outline some simple steps to help you make the most of QRky.   a) Complete the profile with useful information: Link your businesses’ social media accounts to your profile, if you have company promotional videos or Flickr galleries, add these using our widget functionality. Ideally, you should aim for 3-4 widgets on each profile. Choose widgets that give people you meet the best impression of your business.   b) Print the QR code correctly: Making sure people can scan the QR codes is vital. The QR codes need to big enough to register on most smart phones. Because of this, you’ll want to print them around 15mm square, 13mm square at very minimum. Position the QR code somewhere on the card where it’s prominent. We recommend adding some text below the QR code

Lots of QRky users integrate social media into their profiles, using QRky as a tool to share up to date information from their business cards. In this blog post, we’ll have a quick look at which social media sites we recommend and how you can benefit from using them.   The big three social media sites to get involved in are Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. These sites attract the most users and depending on your business, you may want to get involved in all three, or, in just one or two.   Ask for feedback and new ideas, and action it: Most customers will love giving you feedback and new ideas. Don’t just accept feedback and leave it on the social networks, make sure you action the feedback. Once you have, let your followers know you have done so. You’ll give customers a sense you’re a company that cares and

Printing the QR codes so that they can be scanned by phones is vital. If you don’t follow some simple rules when printing QR codes, you could end up leaving a negative impression as opposed to a positive one. In this article we’ve outlined some simple steps to help you make the most of QR codes.   Rule 1: Make sure you print the code large enough How big your code should be printed depends on how many characters you “encode” into it. It can take an absolute maximum 7,000 characters, but realistically most people will encode about 20 letters or so (a URL, for example). The phone’s camera detects the distance between the little black dots to decipher the data, so each phone will be able to scan codes to different resolutions depending on the phone’s camera quality. Stay safe and stick to the lowest common denominator (we use

NFC vs. QR codes – a much discussed battle! Background: Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity technology that enables data transfer through a simple touch of devices, allowing compatible devices within a few centimetres of each other to communicate with each other. Most people in the London will have used the technology with their London Oyster transport card which uses NFC chips. Quick Response (QR) technology (2D Datamatrix barcodes) is a type barcode that can be read by any smart-phone through the phone’s camera and a generic, free app that decodes the barcode into data. In the past 6 months a debate has been growing over whether NFC technology will kill QR codes. NFC offers a more user-friendly interaction with simpler and fewer user steps for interaction (just touch two things together). A comparison of the two technologies makes sense because they both offer a way to trigger

Last week we headed over to Bucharest in Romania for the How to Web conference. QRky had been nominated for the Startup Challenge award and had been invited to a do a pitch in front of the 450 delegates and then have a 15 minute feedback session with a panel of high profile judges including Doug Richards, Reshma Sohani and Katy Turner to name a few. This was a great experience and we received some invaluable feedback that you will soon see rolled out with QRky.   One of the best parts of going to the conference was meeting the people involved in the Romanian tech scene. There is an abundance of highly skilled, intelligent men and women who are working on some fantastic tech start ups. A couple of our favourites are Palkoo and Squeeqly and we recommend you check these out.   There were a number of great

QRky has seen some excellent growth as of late and we have to attribute some of that to the support we have received from two Birmingham based incubator schemes; BSEEN and Entrepreneurs for the Future, both based at Birmingham Science Park Aston. As entrepreneurs we depend on low fixed costs, support and networking. These incubators provide this with free rent, experienced mentors and a number of hosted networking events. It is the perfect platform and helped us to expand to the next stage. This blog post is our way of saying thank you to the teams that run both and to recommend any entrepreneurs that are looking to start out to look for incubators in your local area and use them.

Last week QRky implemented our technology on conference badges for our very first time and we chose the Hello Digital event; described by the Birmingham Post as a “number of major digital events in Birmingham which are bringing some of the highest profile business and government advisers to the city”. Working closely with the event organisers, QRky generated individual QR codes for every attendee at the conference and seamlessly integrated them into the usual badge printing process run by the Event Management company. It was a great success with attendees scanning each other’s badges and making lasting connections. We pre-populated the account with the basic contact details for each person and gave attendees the opportunity to add their digital content to their codes using individual usernames and passwords which were emailed our the day before.  It was great to see how many people logged in to add content. The take up in