Four Click Freedom

I wanted to give a quick update as to how QR codes can be used with Clickboards.net Feed.  As many of you already know, QR codes are the thing of the future.  You simply take a snap shot with your mobile phone and are then directed to the website.

My idea is that if you ever see a print ad: magazine, newspaper, billboard, direct mail; you can then snap a photo of it.  Then instead of being directed to a website, the coupon will be automatically added to your coupon feed at Clickboards.net for you to redeem at any time, when you are ready to make the purchase.

For example, see how this QR code takes you to my explanation of incorporating print into digital couponing:

I changed the title of my site from Telling all All to Four Click Freedom.  I think the previous had negative connotations for first visitors or even the preview people on Facebook.  I think the implications was that I know everything and you are all stupid and should listen to me be the smartest person.  However, that was not the point at all.  In fact what it was meant to say was that my site is for anyone willing to listen and that I am trying to give as much information about the development of my project as I can, not excluding any details.  But I think the thought is lost in translation.

So, I have changed the name to reflect more of what a Clickboard does.  In four clicks you are still free to surf the Internet without being dragged into a buying process or printing off coupons.  Four clicks is pretty powerful when you think about it, what will you accomplish in your next four clicks?

Great news, I think I am going to be able to do the Clickboards.net locally here in Tianjin.  This new portable receipt printer that I found makes everything happen.  Basically as long as their is a computer in the restaurant this will work.  And from what I found there always is.

The printer is programmable and every individual one you can upload the store logos and id for the printer onto it.  Then by simply having linked to the computer through IrDA, Bluetooth, Infra-Red, or WLAN the coupons from Clickboards.net can be printed for the store at the store.

Currently I am thinking all discounts that the user has for the store will all be printed and then they will have to select at the table or check out which ones they want to use.  The store keeps the copy of the used coupon(s) and the user takes the rest home with him.  He can re-enter the coupons back onto his profile when he gets home with the pin number for the coupon.

But better yet, this portable printer has the option of coming with a magnetic card and smart card reader.

Brilliant