April 13, 2012

Turbocharge your Direct Mail pieces with QR Codes

There have been three constants in the universe: death, taxes, and direct mail.

But now that email marketing and social media are on the rise, some organizations are considering giving up their direct mail efforts.

Here’s a suggestion: ad a QR code to your direct mail piece, and see what happens.

Unlike your one-dimensional direct mailer, a QR code can tell you how many people have interacted with it; can invite recipients to submit their email addresses; and can offer discounts that you can modify each week without changing the mailer.

Some organizations have already begun to deploy QR codes on their mailers. We recently received a fundraising piece from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts featuring a QR code, leading to a very nice mobile-optimized web page:



We also found an advertising insert in a blue Valpak envelope featuring a QR code that offered a $25 coupon:


Unfortunately, this code led to a desktop version of a web sign-up page, making it hard to fill out and accept the offer.

You can create your own, mobile-optimized sign-up forms on Qryptal’s newly updated QR code generator.

1 comment:

  1. Adding a QR code to the direct mail is such a great idea. This will compel every receiver to sign up or purchase a certain product. With these technological innovations today, I still believe that Direct Mail Advertising is still one of the best methods of marketing.

    ReplyDelete