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What is a QR code? And what does it do?
Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS has adopted some new technology to create QR codes, which look similar to a barcode, for all Ruhl&Ruhl listings, allowing our Realtors to market our listings even more effectively. Ruhl&Ruhl's QR codes will contain the basic information such as price and square footage on the home, address of the home and the real estate agent's contact information. Although this is still early technology, Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS is quickly taking speed and finding smart innovative ways to use this new piece of technology. You may have noticed these little squares popping up on marketing pieces, billboards and newspaper advertisements. A QR Code (short for Quick Response) was created to allow its contents to be decoded at a high speed. A QR code is a specific matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. Common in Japan, where it was created by a Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994, initially it was created for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing. QR codes are now being used on a much broader spectrum; most popular is containing a URL. QR codes containing URL's may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards, or on just about any object about which users might need information. Consumers with camera phones equipped to read a QR code (with a QR code reader) can take a photo of the image and the QR code reader will scan the image and display text, contact information, connect to a wireless network, or open a web page in the phone's browser; whatever secret information the QR code contained. QR codes are becoming increasingly innovative and more and more ideas for their use are becoming a reality. With the adoption of the QR code taking off, many Android, Nokia and Blackberry phones are coming with QR code readers pre-installed. QR reader software is available for most phones with internet access and a camera phone. Ruhl&Ruhl is always striving for new, easy to use technology to make searching for your next home as easy as possible. This is also another Ruhl&Ruhl advantage for selling your home, a great way to get the information out on your home to as many people and places as possible. A family-owned company since 1862, Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS annually sells nearly 3,800 homes in eastern Iowa, western Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin. Caroline Ruhl is the President and owner of Ruhl&Ruhl REALTORS, and is the fourth generation of the Ruhl family to lead the residential brokerage and home services company. Headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, the company has 265 sales associates and 50 employees based in sales offices located in Bellevue, Bettendorf, Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Coralville, Davenport, DeWitt, Dubuque, Maquoketa, and Muscatine, in Iowa, and in Moline, Illinois. In addition to residential sales, Ruhl&Ruhl offers services in relocation, new home sales, farm and land sales, senior services, real estate investment, property management and mortgage services through 1862 Mortgage and insurance services through Nelson Brothers Insurance. For more information on Ruhl&Ruhl, visit their website at www.RuhlHomes.com .
