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Margreet de Heer's avatar

I'm one of those people in love with the IDEA of New York. I'm so afraid going back there will shatter my good memories and illusions! Your posts make it possible to keep on dreaming...

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Claudia Befu's avatar

I wonder how this would work in other cities… fortunately, after the pandemic, even I know how to use a qr code.

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

Love the walls and posts of NYC! Look out for makepurethyheart and TURBO GOTH

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

I’ve seen TURBOGOTH!!

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Michelle A. Gil's avatar

What a hoot! And I love the card with the QR code in a little puddle.

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Amy Makechnie's avatar

This is so interesting! Love how you acted on the idea while slicing pickles...made me laugh (and love your cartoons!) I may give this a try...! Thanks!

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Some of my best ideas have come halfway through a pickle.

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Michelle Joy Brown's avatar

😂🤣😂🥰🥰 Love it!!

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BellaD@ma's avatar

Good 😊 idea 💡

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Very cool idea grassy ass! I have cards like this for my biz and I get a little rush whenever I find a cool place to stick one. Prob is now I wander with pushpins in my pocket and sometimes that goes badly

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Anne Kadet's avatar

I love this idea Jason! But I hate QR codes! What to do?

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Personally, I still prefer putting a URL on most things. I did buy Newyorkcartoons.com for a reason, I suppose. URLs on them for various projects and people seem happy to just type them in rather than scan something with their phone.

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

I’m going to design bookmarks and add a QR code! Thanks for the idea.

I sell books online and I include a bookmark. My friend also works at a bookstore and thinks he should be able to put some on the checkout counter.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

I experimented with bookmarks when I was signing my books last year at New York Comic-con in San Diego Comic-con, and what I noticed was more people would just take the bookmarks because they were something ‘free’ — I didn’t have a QR but I included a promo code and URL to order more books through my website on the bookmark and got a bunch of sales from it.

Bottom line… Sometimes people won’t buy the book in the moment but they will keep the bookmark because it’s free and if they actually use it while reading a book you have a captive audience .

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Nathaniel Roy's avatar

Good to remember! Thanks for sharing that experience

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John Mitchell's avatar

I love this but your friend seems to have missed that the injunction is to find the people who care about rats, not the rats themselves.

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Jason Chatfield's avatar

Believe me, that's not all he's missing 😆

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