Hear how the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) identified their mobile audience and created mobile-friendly email campaigns to improve member engagement.
Three Easy Steps to Achieve a Mobile-Friendly Email
1. 3 Easy Steps to Achieve a
Mobile-Friendly Email
Jeanette Brown – Informz
Email Rockstar Guest: Amy Hager - SBCA
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4. 3 Easy Steps to Achieve a
Mobile-Friendly Email
Jeanette Brown – Informz
Email Rockstar Guest: Amy Hager - SBCA
14. SBCA Mobile Strategy
• Goal #1: Identify mobile audience.
• Goal #2: Optimize e-newsletter to increase
overall engagement.
• Goal #3: Continue customizing the email
experience for members with mobile
customization.
29. Results
80.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
Email Ver (14,033)
30.0% Mobile Ver (3,188)
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%
Open CTR Forwarded Mobile
Opens
30. What Did They Think?
mobile format is a
“I would to say that the
lot better for me since I only use
my mobile device to check email
and read your SBCA newsletter good job and thanks!”
33. Final Tips
• Increase spacing in TOC
• Link story titles
• Keep images <480 px
• Shorten subject line to <30 characters
• Mind the width of an email
• 600 px for desktop/combination
• 100% for mobile only
35. Let us help you!
Jeanette Brown
brown@informz.com
@emktg_guru
www.informz.com
1.888.371.1842
@informz
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Good afternoon and welcome to 3 easy steps to achieve a mobile-friendly email.In just 30 minutes, you will learn key design tactics that can make your email more mobile friendly.
Many of us have heard this before but I want to share it again as it drives home how prevalent mobile usage is.
Of 6.8 billion people on the planet. 5.1 billion of them own a cell phone, but only 4.2 billion own a toothbrush
Also, 91% of all U.S. citizens have their mobile device within reach 24/7Mobile is everywhere, geez, my mother has an iPad and just started to use her phone this year to text. Revamping your layout of your email to be more mobile friendly may seem daunting but it doesn’t have to be.
For those of you who don’t know who Informz is,– we are an email service provider with a range of solutions, including those you see on your screen. And because these solutions all live on one platform, the data is captured and can be leveraged again and again. All too often I see the difficulties of having data here and there and nothing really talks to one another, which can be a big struggle with associations. Making them talk will allow you to work smarter and not harder.
So real quick, I have worked in the marketing departments at a couple of associations prior to joining the Informz team, and understand what many of you face when it comes to communicating to your members. From membership to conference marketing, I have done it all.As the marketing strategy manager at Informz, I work directly with our association clients to achieve certain goals they have for their campaigns. This can range from subject line testing, to welcome campaigns and anything in between. And on a personal note, if you were on my earlier webinar, you know how much I am wishing for the Red sox to pick it up a bit in the standings, something else about me is I am a special olympics coach and have been for a few years. Not a surprise being a big sports fan right? I also wanted to introduce our guest today.
Amy has over a decade of communications, public relations and marketing experience, At SBCA Amy spearheads the communications efforts of the association both to members and partners alike. Also, she may have over a decade of professional communication experience, well, she also has a decade of racing experience, including Nascar. She was the first female in her division to win at her home racetrack in Minnesota. On that note lets get this started. I would like to turn it over to Amy now to tell her story. Amy Take it away!
This was great Amy. Before we open up for questions, I wanted to recap some of the best practices that Amy has shown today so that you can walk away and implement them immediately. First, spread out the spacing of your table of contents and link story titles. Remember, your finger is a lot larger than a mouse pointer. Next, many times we are afraid to include images for mobile readers. Most mobile readers have their phone defaulting to download images versus those on desktop. So go ahead and use them, but keep them small so they don’t take up the whole screen. You want to make sure to keep scrolls on a mobile device to 3-4.Just like the length needs to be short, so does your subject line or it will be cut off. And lastly, mind the size of the email. If you are doing a mobile only version much like Amy did, sized the width to 100%, this will expand to the size of the screen it is on. If you are doing a desktop or combination version, create a fixed width, 600 pixels wide.
Thank you Amy for joining us today, you truly are an email rockstar. Engagement should be your number one goal when it comes to email marketing. If the email is not rendering correctly or is not user friendly, they won’t take the actions that you want them to take. Look at your design, look at what your readers are viewing your email on. Once you do, you will have taken the first step in optimizing your layout for your subscribers.
Atthis time I would like to open it up for questions. Please place them in the question box.