Our Story
To us it seems life is getting more hectic. Not only do we have a million things to do already, both at work and at home, it seems we are being constantly bombarded with hundreds of advertisements everyday vying for our attention....a limited resource these days! All this on top of all the little boutique businesses & restaurants that look so interesting that you want to know more about them, but usually don't have the time. With all that is going on around you, how to you remember them?
That's been our problem for ages and it seems now that we are not alone in our thinking :-)
There are hundreds of small businesses and shops we walk past during our excursions, but we never remember the ones that we were curious about at the time,. They may have been creative in getting our attention, but their recall techniques were non-existent. We used to think 'Cool, that looks like an interesting spot (shop/restaurant/business), I must remember to come back sometime, or check them out later.....' but we didn't often to do because it was too difficult to remember their contact details and we my have had other things on our mind at the time. This temporary curiosity never lasted long and we became lost leads.....a pity for small business owners.
So that got a few of us thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great if I could just send a message and get all their contact details on my phone now.....and I'll call them later. Even better, if they included a link, I could check them out online first. Do a little research when I have the time.' That fired off many coffee shop discussions fleshing out the attributes that might make SpotiD (It wasn't called SpotiD then) successful. Some of those things noted at the time were (in no particular order):
It's got to:
- be free for consumers....always.
- be really easy to use, even on the most basic mobile
- be available all the time, any time.
- have a revenue stream to be sustainable
- be remarkable enough that users tell other users about it. Make it Viral.
- be really useful & cheap for small businesses
- be something that thousands of small businesses would signup for
- be globally scalable and self-serving so that everyone looks after their own business cards.
- and several others no doubt....
So that's how the SpotiD concept was born........ the concept has evolved a lot to the point now where you are seeing SpotiD come to life!
We hope you enjoy using it, find it useful and tell others about it.
From your phone, download a reader for QR Codes at url.spotid.me/qk. or Ms Tags from url.spotid.me/nk. Once installed, take a photo of the sample images below to get a sample Spot Response. Click image for larger version.
