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					<description><![CDATA[No, I&#039;m not talking about Masabi&#039;s innovative technology, but of this rather odd bit of advertising found on the back of a train ticket.  There&#039;s no specific call to action - but there&#039;s not much space to play with. Let&#039;s give it a scan...   sigh A non-mobile site. With an Adobe Flash plugin in the top right which won&#039;t work on any iPhones.  Why on Earth do marketing companies insist on pointing…]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, I'm not talking about <a href="http://www.masabi.com/">Masabi's innovative technology</a>, but of this rather odd bit of advertising found on the back of a train ticket.
<img src="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/QR-Codes-on-Train-Tickets.jpg" alt="QR Codes on Train Tickets" title="QR Codes on Train Tickets" width="512" height="384" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5611">
There's no specific call to action - but there's not much space to play with. Let's give it a scan...
<img src="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Train-Tickets-non-mobile-friendly.png" alt="Train Tickets non-mobile friendly" title="Train Tickets non-mobile friendly" width="240" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5612"></p>

<p><em>sigh</em> A non-mobile site. With an Adobe Flash plugin in the top right which won't work on any iPhones.  Why on Earth do marketing companies insist on pointing phones to non-mobile sites. It really bemuses me.  Stations rarely have good signal (too many people leads to local network congestion) and, besides, large sites are a right pig to use on a small screen.</p>

<h2 id="stats"><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/04/train-tickets-with-qr-codes/#stats">Stats</a></h2>

<p>I've blogged several times about using <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/bit-ly/">Bit.ly links in QR codes</a>. With a little bit of hacking (adding at + character to the end of the URL) we can <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025161617/http://bitly.com/yCFLtT+/global">see how many people have been scanning the code</a>.</p>

<img src="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/QR-Click-Stats-Rail.png" alt="QR Click Stats Rail" title="QR Click Stats Rail" width="480" height="506" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5613">

<p>I don't know how many of these tickets have been printed. That might be a really good conversion rate - but I doubt it.  I only noticed the QR code because someone had dropped their ticket and it landed face-down. Realistically, how many people look at the back of their tickets?</p>

<p>The best campaign in the world would fail if it's not put in front of an audience.</p>
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