We’re fresh off our Dallas breakfast event with the Mobile Marketing Association where Bottle Rocket, 7-Eleven, and Urban Airship shared what effective mobile experiences look like and why they matter. We’re still feeling jazzed about the concepts discussed during the event, and had to share five of our favorites.   Click through to the Bottle Rocket website to watch the entire breakfast conversation or continue reading for our top 5 takeaways from the event.    

Every mobile moment is an opportunity

We believe every mobile moment is an opportunity for a brand to connect to users. Between the rapidly changing mobile market and its technology, it can be hard to keep up. But, consumers expect it. Think about your audience – is it customers, employees, partners? Or a combination of these and more? Effective mobile experiences can serve any variety of audiences when developed with their needs in mind.  

People want just a few things from their apps

Users want three things: personal, frictionless, contextual mobile experiences. The needs are few, but the apps that win are successful on all fronts. At Bottle Rocket, we build mobile experiences that exceed customer expectations, bringing them relevant and easy-to-use experiences. Companies like Urban Airship help us take it one step further to ensure we appropriately reach customers in the moments that matter with notification-style messages at every step in the customer journey.  

Begin with the user

Through ethnographic research and observing mobile metrics, examine the user journey and learn their experience. Where do they encounter friction and what can a mobile experience do to make things easier? Anticipating these needs makes the experience delightful. You know you’ve done something right when the user responds with, “How did they do that?”  

Make it easy

Engage users by extending communications beyond the app with push notifications. Don’t just present thoughts, though—provide actionable prompts, then make taking action frictionless. Take users straight to the app or let them handle business right there in the moment.  

Say the right thing at the right time

Since most people use an average of three connected devices per day for more than 200 daily mobile moments, forging connections to users can be difficult. Mobile experiences need to be meaningful. Relevant engagements with appropriate frequency (learned through understanding the user and their habits) can put a brand in users’ good graces. Then, once you’ve got their attention, guide them in taking some kind of action.  

Bonus trivia!

• The farthest 84% of millennials place their phone is on their nightstand.
• On average, people own 6 connected devices, like smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
• Within the first 30 days of downloading an app, 70% of people delete it.

  Want to learn more? We’ve got a lot of experience to share. Tell us what you want to know—we love this stuff!