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The World Has Gone Mobile – Have Your Emails?
By Andrew King
In an earlier webinar, we outlined the growing importance of mobile
optimization for your website and email marketing. We also looked at several
mobile optimization options and design considerations. Here’s a re-cap in case
you missed out!
Key stats and insights:
• Global smartphone sales are up 43%.
• The U.S. has 44% smartphone penetration – Although this is increasing every day.
• Smartphone penetration is increasing around the world, too. Many countries have over 50% of the population
using smartphones.
• 96% of smartphone users use them to research products and services.
• 58% have used them to assist with in-store shopping.
• According to Deloitte, smartphones will influence up to $752 billion worth of in-store sales.
• 43% of emails are opened on mobile devices.
• 97% of emails are opened just once.
• There are still many barriers to buying from a website on a mobile.
• Still, 35% of smartphone users have purchased from their smartphone.

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Three options for optimizing your emails for mobile
Fluid Email Layout: Email width expands or contracts depending on the size of the screen that you are viewing it
on. This is a fairly simple approach to mobile optimization that is achieved by setting the width of your email to a
percentage rather than a fixed number. So the email effectively flows across whatever screen you are viewing it on.
Pros
• Easy to do
• Seamless experience
Cons
• Not appropriate for image-only emails
• Doesn’t always look good on a large screen
• Only effective with simple layouts

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Pros
• Seamless experience
• Looks good in all environments
• Easy to do and doesn’t require extra coding or
design work
Cons
• Limits your design options
• Not flexible
• Not appropriate if you have a lot of content
Scalable Design: An email design that features a single “mobile-friendly” layout that looks good on small and large
screens. Unique features of this design approach include:
• A single-column layout which is relatively narrow compared to most other emails
• Large titles
• Large calls-to-action which are easy to click on mobile devices
• A good amount of white space
• And a small amount of body copy which can easily be read at a glance

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Responsive Design: Responsive design allows you to change the way your email looks or is displayed depending on
the size of the screen that email is being viewed on. It gives you an enormous amount of flexibility to add, remove,
or re-arrange the content of your email, so that your subscribers will have the very best experience, no matter what
device or email client they read your email on.
Pros
• Seamless experience
• Extremely flexible
• Just one HTML file
Cons
• Complex to code
• Doesn’t work on all mobile devices
• Adds weight which impacts loading time

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Steps for optimizing your own emails
• Identify the most popular mobile, webmail, and desktop clients and devices among YOUR subscribers.
• Analyze the results and determine the best mobile optimization approach.
• TEST your new design first.
• Roll out your shiny new mobile-optimized email.
• Keep on tracking in case new devices become popular among your subscribers.
Still not sure where to start? Lyris Professional Services can help!
We offer a number of mobile optimization services including:
• Optimization of your existing email templates
• Design and coding of brand new scalable or responsive templates
• Responsive design training. Want to learn how to code your own responsive email templates? One of our in-
house experts can train you