Regardless of your personal opinions about when to begin celebrating Christmas, you cannot wait until December 1st to finalize your mobile marketing strategy for the holidays, you’ll be far behind the competition
The time to get your holiday mobile strategy ready is now. Don’t get stuck scrambling to get it done at the last minute. Here are some things to keep in mind as your prepare your mobile marketing strategy this season.
Email marketing is mobile marketing
If you send out an email newsletter or if your marketing strategy includes email in some way, that counts as mobile marketing. Now it is more likely that emails are read on a mobile device than on a desktop. This is crucial because reading an email on a smartphone is very different from reading it on a computer. Mobile users are less likely to read big blocks of text on a smartphone so keep that in mind when crafting email messages.
7 Essential Tips to Creating Mobile Friendly Emails. (Campaign Monitor)
Mobile web design
It’s also important to keep in mind that many of your customers who come to your website will be viewing it from a mobile device. Over half of all web traffic originates from mobile devices. Having a mobile site isn’t a question, it’s a need. Unless you want nearly half of all of your customers to have a poor experience on your website, you’ll want to invest in a mobile web site or responsive design.
Mobile web design is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, there’s the question of screen size. Mobile customers who arrive at your website and see a page designed to be displayed on a computer screen will have a tough time finding the information they need. Screen size isn’t the only consideration however, mobile website are also different in that the navigation needs to be as simple as possible.
On a computer, a customer is more willing to click through several pages to find what they need. Mobile customers are often on the go and in a hurry to find what they need. Design your mobile site with this principle in mind. Have the information they’re most likely looking for on the landing page and make sure everything else is as accessible as possible.
Interaction
Finally, it’s important to keep in mind that mobile marketing channels have the advantage of being much more interactive than other channels. While the audience of a TV ad will just be sitting on the couch watching, the audience of mobile advertisements can be interacting with them. Find ways to encourage customer engagement as much as possible. When customers have to perform some action as a result of an advertisement, they’re more likely to purchase.
