QR code on your notice: tutoring, flat share and babysitting on the notice board

The notice board in the supermarket, at university or in the community centre still works. Tutoring, a room in a flat share, babysitting, a used bike: a note with tear-off strips reaches people in the neighbourhood. Two things are annoying, though. The strips disappear quickly, and your phone number hangs in public, long after everything is settled. A QR code on the notice solves both.

What a QR code does better than tear-off strips

• it never runs out, no matter how many people are interested
• it leads to more information than fits on the note: photos, prices, times
• your number does not have to be visible on the note
• the scans show you whether anyone is interested at all

Where the code should lead

Ideally to a small page with all the details and a way to get in touch, such as an email address you only use for notices like this. That keeps your private phone number out of the supermarket. For photos of a room or a bike, a shared album is enough. Still write the essentials on the note in plain text: what, where, how much. Not everyone scans.

After it is sorted: “taken”

The room is gone, the note stays up for another three weeks. Without a QR code that means calls and messages you no longer want. With a dynamic QR code you change the destination to a page saying “Already taken, thanks for your interest”. On the free plan each code has two destination changes, and one of them is exactly enough for this.

Design that works on the board

• a large heading that can be read from two metres: “Maths tutoring”
• QR code at least 4 cm, with a line underneath: “All details and contact”
• dark on light paper, not on neon paper with little contrast
• the same notice in several places with different codes, so you see which board works

Free, also for private individuals

The free plan of Same-QR is open to everyone, not only businesses. 20 dynamic QR codes are permanently free, with no trial period, no credit card and no ads when scanning. For a few notices a year that lasts a long time, and a note in a supermarket practically never reaches 1,000 scans a month.

Conclusion

A QR code makes a notice on the board bigger than it is and protects your phone number at the same time. Point it to a small page with all the details, use different codes in different places and switch the destination to “taken” as soon as everything is sorted.

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