Optimizing For The Small Screen Optimizing Emails for Mobile Devices: Trends, Tips and Best Practices August 19, 2010 – Silverpop Webinar @Silverpop
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Optimizing For The Small Screen
Optimizing Emails for Mobile Devices: Trends,
Tips and Best Practices
August 19, 2010 – Silverpop Webinar @Silverpop
Speakers and Agenda
• Len Shneyder – Director of Deliverability &
Messaging
– Unica
• Loren McDonald
– VP, Industry Relations
– Silverpop
– Moderator
• The Mobile Landscape
• The Nuts & Bolts of Mobile
• Rendering Tools & Testing
• Q & A
• Wrap-Up and Survey
Nielsen Study Headline…
Buried in Nielsen blog…Email Remains Top on Mobile Internet Activities…the dominance of email activity on mobile devices continue with an
increase from 37.4 percent to 41.6 percent of U.S. mobile Internet time.
Len Shneyder, Director of Deliverability & Messaging, Unica
Optimizing For The Small Screen
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The Mobile Landscape
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With 4.6 billion current mobile
subscriptions projected to
surge to 6.5 billion mobile
connections by 2014, there's
no denying it:
Mobile is no longer the future,
it’s the present!
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Everything is a mobile device.
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Chart: The Radicati Group, “Wireless Email Market, 2009 – 2013,” October 12, 2009, www.radicati.com.
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Mobile Phone Email Users (millions)“The day when more people
read and respond to email via
their handhelds than any
other platform is approaching,
underscoring how critical it
is to build email campaigns
that are optimized for
mobile devices.”- Mobile Marketer, October 13, 2009
Mobile Internet adoption is
outpacing desktop adoption
by 8X- Morgan Stanley, Web 2.0 Summit,
October 20, 2009
The Mobile Explosion
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The Industry is Evolving
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Cha-cha-cha-changes
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Mobile Is Global, but there are clear
leaders
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eReaders – New Mobile Vanguards
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Mobile is not just on the go
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More food for thought: Social vs. Email
Email is the lubricant and
glue of social media.
Social actions translate
into email notifications.
Businesses are
increasingly leveraging
social channels.
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Mobile Marketing Food Pyramid
Mobile Lifestyle
Coupon Barcodes
Location Based
Mobile Email
Mobile Internet
Mobile Video/TV
SMS
Mobile Games
MMS
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The Nuts & Bolts of Mobile
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Mobile isn’t tied to any specific mail client
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Mobile Email Crosses Borders
A recent study found that
52% of mobile phone
owners access the same
email account across
multiple devices (PCs,
laptops, mobile phones,
etc.), with the other 48%
using a distinct account for
mobile-email only.
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Marketing Communications Inter-related
Deployment
Server
ISP
Server
Content Filters
RBLs
Volume Blocks
Complaint Blocks
Bounce Blocks
Blacklists
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Who is viewing your mail and how?
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Old Mobile Rendering – TEXT Rules
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New Mobile Rendering
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Problems May Be Small & Nuanced
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Don’t Waste Your Customer’s Time
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Properly executed mobile email
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Not optimized for mobile
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Pre-Headers – The Jury Is Still Out
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The Same Rules Apply
CSS has varied support depending on the mobile
device/email client in question.
– Inline-Styles are more widely support than Style Sheets
Brand yourself at the top of your email, your fold line is a
matter of inches so be sure who you are and what your
email is attempting to convey is easily discerned
Forms and scripts will appear as problematic in mobile
clients
Use single column layouts vs. double or triple column
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Rendering Tools & Testing
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Design optimization is a process:
1 – Test Your Links & Images
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A 2nd set of eyes never hurts
2 – Check your spelling
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The best defense against poor rendering
3 – Validate your code
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Visualize the future
4 – See what your customers are seeing!
Contact Information / Q & A
• Len Shneyder, Unica
– Twitter: @LenShneyder
• Loren McDonald, Silverpop
– Twitter: @LorenMcDonald
– Twitter: @silverpop
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