Ep. 27 | Your Business in One Scan: Linking all Social Media via QR Code

In episode 27, we discuss the ease of directing clients to your online presence using a single QR code. We walk you through creating an *All My Links* account, a service that consolidates all your social media profiles and website links into one space. You'll discover how to customize your profile with images, colors, and a brief business description. Plus, we take you through the process of creating a personalized QR code from *QR Monkey*. This QR code will directly link your clients to your diverse online presence. Watch and learn how to make it simple for your clients to access all of your business platforms in one scan! Dive into a world of convenience and efficiency. If you appreciate this video, don't forget to like, subscribe, and share!

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Brooke: QR codes are an excellent way to get people to visit your website and connect with you on social media But wouldn't it be nice to have one QR code to take someone to all those URLs in? Today's episode not only are we going to show you how to create a beautiful QR code, but we are also going to show you how to create one that has all your links. Stay tuned and be sure to watch this episode on YouTube so you can see our screen sharing screen sharing where we walk you through step by step how to create these links.

Rachel: QR codes are an excellent way to gain traction to your website, as well as to connect with individuals on social media. The great thing about QR codes is they can be used on a multitude of different marketing materials. So for example, you can have a QR code printed onto a flyer and you can connect with potential clients at an event.

Or if you have an office and you want to connect with some of your clients in the office, you can have them connect via a card or something that's on your desk. If you're at an event, also you can have a banner created or if you're just sponsoring like a football team, you can have a QR code printed and put on that banner so that people who just come in contact with your banner can then learn more about your business and connect with you. Business cards are another great way. Even like decals for your vehicle. If you're a construction worker in the construction industry and you have a business vehicle, using a QR code is a great way to get people who are in their cars, probably using their phones and they're not supposed to be, to be able to at least get your information in their phone quickly versus trying to memorize how to get in touch with you.

You just make the process a little bit simpler for them to be able to connect with you and it's very effective. So what is great about all my links is because instead of having multiple QR codes for your website, your Facebook page, your Instagram, and any other platform that you're on, you can create an account on all my links for free. And then once you create that account, you can create a QR code that'll take people to every single link that you have about your business. And it even gives the opportunity for you to put a brief bio in your account. So it's a great way just to give people a real quick first glance of who you are, what you do, and how they can connect with you.

So I'm going to share my screen here. And we'll get started. So the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to go to all my links.com. Then what you're going to want to do is you're going to want to sign up for all my links if you don't have an account already. So we're going to do this for Miss this.

You enter in your email address, you will want to make sure that this is an email address that you have access to. Because what you're going to have to do is you're going to have to verify the account. Set up a password that's going to be difficult for people to hack into or guess just like you would with anything, then you have your unique username. So this is podcast. If you can have something that simple and that kind of goes along with all of your other handles on social media, that's what I would recommend using.

Alright, So from here, what you're going to do is you're going to put all of your usernames in the into the links. So this is super easy. All you're doing is entering in the username. So ours, because it's consistent on all platforms, like in literally just take the same username and put it on all of these, we do not have the Snapchat or Tumblr yet. And this is not all of the list.

Once you add your usernames for these accounts, it'll give you the option to add more usernames to like TikTok. So right now we are just saving this information and boom. So heres what we can do from our main profile is we can hit the Add button. This is where we can add our TikTok. Once you add that, then you can just go through the list and make sure that you have everything there.

This one's really important. This is your web link. We are excited to announce that we are going to be launching our new website soon. So once we have our website there, we will add that on there for LinkedIn. It's the same thing.

Rachel: So everything is consistent around the board. So you're going to add all of your platforms in here. I can add a logo. This is something that's really good because when people scan the QR code, this is what they're going to be looking at. 

You can edit your profile picture, anything that you want to go in there. Edit profile. This is an excellent feature to use. This is where you can put like a small little bio about your business and like any tag lines that you have just to explain exactly what you do, because for example, you may have a gutter company, but you may do more than just gutter installation and maintenance. You may do pressure washing, you may do painting, interior and exterior painting.

So this gives you a way to let your customers know exactly what your services are. If you enjoy the Miss Biz podcast but still have questions or need advice, We have some exciting news for you. Join us for Miss Biz Connects. Miss Biz Connects is a weekly one hour Zoom call on Fridays at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

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Rachel: Okay, so after you set up your account, you're gonna be taken to your home screen. On the home screen, there's a section that has a profile picture that you can insert. It's got your business name, it's got the handle for all my links. It also has to where you can create additional platforms for social media to connect to, as well as your web web page. And in order to connect more social media pages or your web page, what you're going to do is you're going to want to hit this plus button that says add link.

It's blue and it's bright and it's on the right hand side. Then what you're going to do is you're going to click whatever type of link you want to insert. So for example, if you have a web link, you can click there, and then enter in whatever the website URL is. If you have YouTube, you can do the same thing. You can hit at whatever your handle is on YouTube.

And to see what your handle is, if you may not know, you can always go to Google. And you can search, for example, YouTube, Miss Biz podcast. And then you can click on it. And then you'll automatically see the handle right here. So if you don't know what your handles are Currently, there are ways that you can go about to find it so that you can simply copy it and paste it into where it says the web link or the username.

So after you have all of the links in there that you want to take your clients and potential clients to, then the next step that you're going to want to do is you're going to want to go to edit profile. From here, you can it's set up a lot like LinkedIn and Facebook, where you can have like your main profile picture on the left hand side and then you can have like a background image. So to pick the background image or the header image you're going to click on the little picture it looks like there's a little mountain on there, you're going to click on that. And that's where you can insert your logo or whatever that you want to use. We like for example, for our logo is too big for this.

So we're going to have to resize it to get it to fit properly. But that is where you would go to add it. Also, you can pick an image. This can be a picture of you. You upload the profile picture from your device.

So I'm going to pick a picture where Brooke looks better than me, which is all of them. And save. That is going to be the profile picture. Okay, then from here, you can change your color scheme. So this is great for your branding.

So when I made bold seagulls, I did red because that's one of them their main branding colors that sticks out for Miss Biz podcast, we are pinks, purples, very feminine, bright colors. And then a short bio, this is where you would put your tagline about your business. So for when I made one for Bolts Media, I put a striking difference in digital marketing because that's my slogan. But then in my about section, I gave more detail about what we do, you know, full service digital marketing firm that specializes in X, Y, and Z. So this is going to be really good if you're a business that does multiple services to include this information in there.

You can add your birthday if you want to add your birthday. You can show your view count on your profile. I think that that's a really cool feature. So if you know, if you handed out 75 flyers that had your All My Links QR code, you can get a count of how many out of the 75 actually went to your on my links page. And then you can show your latest post on your bio page.

And then if you had a profile that contained sensitive content, you could turn that on as well. There's a spot for analytics, there's all kinds of different features that you can get really into. But right now, for the sake of the purpose of creating the QR code, I just wanted to show you how to set up the initial account and then you can always go in there and modify it and tweak it and make it however you want it to be. So always remember to save your settings because that's something that really irritates me when I do all this work and then I don't save my settings. So make sure that you are saving the latest and greatest.

Then what you're going to do to get your QR code. You can go to your profile. This is going to be the link that you're wanting going to want to insert into whatever QR code generator that you make. You know we're all about that case, about that case, no trouble. All about that case, about that case, no trouble.

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Brooke: At Bolts Legal, we are all about your case. Text or call to schedule a free consultation for all your legal needs. BoltsLegal.com.

Rachel: So I really like using QR Monkey. It's very easy to use. You can make a very beautiful QR code. And it's very simple to use. So I just go into QR, Google, I type in QR monkey.

The first one is going to take you to an ad I try not to cost them money. So I go and I scroll down to click on the next available link. So as soon as you get to QR Monkey, there's going to be a spot that says enter content. This is very important to click on because that is the URL that automatically gets populated is the one that goes directly to QR Monkey. And if you don't update this, you're going to be making a QR code to go to QR Monkey and you don't want that.

So you're going to want to copy and paste your URL to your All My Links page. Then what's really cool about this is you can set your colors. So you can do single color, you can do a color gradient, or you can do like a custom eye color. I really like doing the color gradient, because I just think it makes it look better. Now, to do this, you can either do a couple things you can, you know, scroll to find the color that you want for for that.

Or what I like to do, I, I love Canva. And I will often go on here to find out what colors are in the branding. So our logo is primarily white. If there were other colors, I could actually go on here and find out what the color code is. So you're going to go to Canva.

You're going to click on something that you can change the color to. So here is a text box that I clicked on. Once the text box is clicked, you can hit the little plus sign. It has like a rainbow background and it says add new color. Now from here, it's going to take you to a little it looks like a little would you call that broke like a little color.

It's like a color. It looks it's a so it's an image and it almost looks like one of those tinnitus that you use for like tincture. Yes, that you used for the dropper. That's what it looks like to me. So from here, you're going to click the dropper.

It's below all the colors on the right hand side. And then you can take that and search whatever you color color you want. So it could be in your logo or it could be in your background. So I'm gonna click that. Once I click that, it's gonna change the shape color, which I really didn't wanna do.

But what I really want the whole point is I wanna find out what this color number is. So I can take this, I can highlight it all and copy it. So this is number FF4AA5.

Brooke: You found that by once you put the dropper over the color you wanted and change the color next to the dropper the color code showed up?

Rachel: Yeah it's a little text box and it shows the unique number so if I wanted to do well we'll do this one first and then we'll do a different one. We'll add a couple of different colors in there. Was that it? So we're going to go back to QR Monkey, And then we copied the number and then we're gonna hit paste. That's under what box?

So this is under the color gradient foreground color. So I can even add another color if I want to. But I think this will be this will be good. We'll just do the color gradient here. Now from here, it gives you the color options.

That's just to make it look prettier. You can add a logo image. Once you click this, it's going to prompt you to upload the image. So I'm going to go to the Miss Biz folder and upload our logo. Once the logo is uploaded, you can click this little box that says remove the background but because our logo is white it just removed the whole thing so that may not always be the best day.

Oh I clicked remove the logo and what I meant is remove the background behind the logo so if there's any extra it kind of just shapes it up a little bit nicer and then what you would do from here they give you a bunch of other logos to put on there So if you were making a logo specifically for Facebook, you could collect you could select a Facebook logo to go on top of it. But since this is going to be for all of our links, I really just want our branding on there so people know. And then the next option is to customize the design. So it's cool about this is there are many different options now that you can use for how you want your QR code to look. So there's the traditional way.

And if you hit create QR code, it'll give you like a preview of what it'll look like. And then you can just go option by option and see which one you like the best. So they have kinds that just have like little dots on it. They have kinds that have bigger dots on it. They have other styles that have like dots and lines.

So you can really customize this for whatever you think looks best for your business. So which one do you like, Brooke? I like the bigger. Like that one. All right, we'll rock with it.

And you can change this anytime. Like if you want to create a different QR code, the URL is always going to be the same, but you can make it your own. You can also change the shape as well. And you can just keep recreating it until you find something that you really like. Right And then the other thing that you can change, this is the eyeball shape.

So if you wanted to go with like the whole circle look, you can make it look any way that you want. Okay, so now that you have it the way that you want it to look it's aesthetically pleasing to you, then you download the PNG. It's going to show you an ad because this is a free thing that you can use. So they are offering this for you for free because people are paying for advertisements. So once it's done, it's going to tell you that it's done generating and that it's going it's downloading your QR code.

So right here in my screen, where my download section is, I can look and I can see that the QR code was downloaded. I'm going to open it up. And then I am going to save this in our folder for Miss Biz. That way I always have this no matter what if I'm if I need to add it to a flyer or if I need to add it to a banner or whatever purpose I need, I always have it here. So I'm just going to change it to all my links, QR code.

And then what would happen after you print this, your client is or potential client is going to take their phone and they're going to scan it. So they would automatically be taken to all of your links. And we'll show you how that looks We appreciate you and are honored to be on this journey with you. We can't wait to help you, to encourage you, and show you how to grow personally, professionally, and spiritually.

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Rachel: You can follow us on social media at Miss Biz Podcast. For legal questions or services, please visit BoltsLegal.com. And for digital marketing needs, please visit BoltsMedia.com. Let's get biz done.