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Some of our map clients have been using the QR code generator as another way to promote the map offline.  Here are some of the best ways:

1. Adding a QR code to print materials or as a small handout in welcome packets instead of a printed out map which become outdated too quickly or aren't easily tailored for prospective families.

2. Putting a QR code sign outside the admissions office, welcome center, or visitor parking lot.  This has helped visitors a handful of ways:

• Late arrivals who just missed the tour group can scan the QR code sign to pull up a map tour.  They can then use it to catch up while still having an audio guide, photos and videos to show parts of the tour that they may have missed without a tour guide to let them into buildings.
• Prospective families may squeeze in a campus visit in during off-hours or weekends when no one is around to give a tour, but they can still scan the QR code to get a self-guided walking tour around campus.
• Some prospects may be interested in other aspects of campus or specific academic programs that may not have an official tour guide.  To more easily meet this demand, you can create several self-guided walking tours and prospects can scan the QR code that starts the self-guided walking tour that interests them the most.
• You can put a QR code in the visitor parking lot to provide directions to the welcome center or admissions office if it is a tricky route.
• Drake University created tour stop signs for their main campus tour and added a QR code on each so that folks could pull up additional information about each stop.

3. Julee Mitsler at Lindenwood University and her team created QR code signs and put them on the doors of a few buildings around campus to promote the map and tell users what was inside each building.  Other departments and offices soon asked for QR code signs for their buildings too!