3. World stats World population 6.9 billion PCs 1 billion Televisions 2 billion Mobile phones 5 billion Or 73% of world population Developed world 90%+ of population April 20, 2011
11. How often mobiles users check email April 20, 2011 Source Merkle “View from the Digital Inbox 2011”
12. Email activity by time of day (weekday) April 20, 2011 Kick-off Closing check-up Lunch review 40% of email activity outside of 9am to 5pm hours Source: smartFOCUS
13. Email activity by time of day (weekday) and device April 20, 2011 Source: smartFOCUS
14. Email activity by time of day (weekday) and mobile device April 20, 2011 Content Crush Hour Couch Consumption Source: smartFOCUS
16. Three key factors Design and rendering Working with a smaller screen Message Changing copy needs Behavioural How and where emails are consumed April 20, 2011
17. What could go wrong? April 20, 2011 Android. Zoomed in, images on Android. Zoomed in, images off iPhone. Zoomed out, images on
25. How did we do it? Cleaned up HTML Reduced amount of code Spacing without spacer gifs – use cell widths Switched heading and call to action to text Allow flexible layout, resize and text re-flow Removed 600px explicit width setting Styles inline Will show correctly without download of external CSS Styles specific for mobile Some styles wrapped by CSS media query. Heading less cramped CSS spans to allow specific modification on mobile view April 20, 2011
29. Subject lines Shorter than desktop First 30-40 characters viewable. Put key words at start of the subject line. Example A bag of coffee for the weekend, with our compliments Vs. Complimentary bag of coffee for your weekend April 20, 2011
31. Behaviour Filling the gaps Emails processed in the 30 second to five minutes gaps. Expect short attention and distracted readers. Triaging If not interesting delete now Urgent action needed respond now Interesting content, news, entertainment read now Keep for later if gap time is close to end Simple action complete now – if connection available Complex action needed complete later April 20, 2011
32. Mobile email checklist Design to work at 450 pixel width Ensure email scales down by 50% Keep email HTML and images byte size down Consider keeping to single column Code to automatically adjust for best experience Use (HTML) buttons for key calls to action Avoid many links close together Minimum text size; body 12 pt. and headings 24 pt. Use inbox preview tools to proof Front load key words in subject lines Include pre-header text to expand subject line Keep copy chunked and short April 20, 2011
34. SMS - outbound Transactional and Service messages Calendar and Appointment reminders Last minutes travel changes High value, highly targeted, highly perishable Customers with no email April 20, 2011
35. Beyond the email click Mobile version reduced page bounces 22% Vegas.com A/B split test Selected test of a few key pages Mobile traffic split to normal and new mobile page 16% more page views 4% higher conversions April 20, 2011 Source: MarketingSherpa
36. Your next step Check your web Analytics How much mobile traffic? Benchmark Review Plan April 20, 2011
37. DMA resources DMA Member resources. Events, whitepapers and best practice guidelines DMA Email Council blog http://dmaemailblog.com DMA Infobox email newsletter http://www.dma.org.uk/infobox April 20, 2011
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