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eMarketer said that 29.7 percent of Americans were accessing the mobile web regularly. Compared to the 20.2 percent at the end of 2010, this is substantial growth. Moreover, early predictions for 2012 suggest more than 36 percent of Americans.

Don’t include EVERYTHING on your mobile site. That means if you have 15 different pages on your main site, it might only be three or four series for the mobile version. Make it really easy to find the phone number and physical address. It is surprising how hard it is to find address and phone number information on many Web sites. Avoid unnecessary graphics that make the site slower to load.

Did you know that the U.S. now has more wireless customer connections than people? There are currently estimated to be 327.6 million active wireless customer connections in the U.S. The nation’s population is estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be roughly 312 million. This means that today there are now more active broadband tablets, cell phones, and mobile devices than people in this country.

If you represent a big brand or even a medium size business, you should take this as a strong signal that if you don’t have a mobile strategy now is the time to figure one out. Right now, you are potentially missing out on a consumer base that is accessing the mobile Web in masses and is growing rapidly.

Google Android: 38.1% Apple: 26.6% RIM: 24.7% Microsoft: 5.8% Symbian: 2.1%

The company will instead focus on HTML5 development, which enables web browsers including those on mobile phones to perform essentially the same task as flash but without relying Adobe's proprietary technologies.

Check your web analytics and you’ll likely find between 5% and 20% of your traffic is from mobile users.

In this article we’ll cover at a high level 3 critical use cases essential for every marketer to understand: Mobile email Mobile search Mobile social media

Where your visitors are coming from – very important if you’re targeting a specific audience.How your visitors found your website – this is very important for determining which of your efforts are paying off. It shows if visitors found your site directly, through a referral from another website (ex: Twitter, Facebook), or from search engines.Web browsers used by your visitors – knowing which web browsers your visitors use allows you to know which browsers you should be focusing on.What keywords were used by visitors in the search engines to get to your website – this is very crucial for SEO. Knowing which keywords people are searching for to get to your site determines if you are on the right track.

iOS and Android are neck and neck when you look at web usage on cellular networks. So the question becomes not why do Android users not browse the web as much as iOS users do, but why don’t they browse the web on Wi-Fi connections?

53 percent of Americans haven’t ever used a QR code.

47 percent of people using QR codes, however, is still a significant amount.

71 percent of respondents said that QR codes are “pointless.” 68 percent of this particular demographic said that they’d rather just type in a company’s web address

Not accounting for device width

Making users fill out long forms

Not reconsidering content

The survey results from the independent mobile ad network found that mobile has surpassed TV in terms of time spent,with mobile web users spending more than a quarter (27%) of their media time on mobile as compared with 22% of their media time on TV and 32% online.

Mobile, PCs, and TV are the most powerful media that influence the purchase decision among mobile users and two thirds (66%) of mobile users say that they are just as comfortable with mobile advertising as they are with TV or online advertising.

Because there are various types of phones, with various types of communications technologies on them, there are also many types of mobile marketing: SMS MMS Mobile Web Apps Bluetooth Location-Based QR Codes Banner Ads Mobile Websites

Mobile Website is an optimized website for viewing on a mobile phone.  Since smart phone screens are generally around three inches wide by four inches tall (or thereabouts), viewing a regular website often displays the text and images too small to read. By optimizing websites for mobile devices, your company can deliver a better web experience for the small screen user, thus increasing the chances that user might interact with the site the way you want them to.

A perfect example of a well-done mobile website is that of pizza maker Papa John’s. Pick up a smart phone and browse to papajohns.com. (It won’t work in a web browser, you’ll have to see it on your phone.) The site is designed so the on-the-go visitor has just a couple of options and can quickly do the most likely thing a mobile user will want to do on papajohns.com: Order a pizza.

By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. According to Gartner's PC installed base forecast, the total number of PCs in use will reach 1.78 billion units in 2013. By 2013, the combined installed base of smartphones and browser-equipped enhanced phones will exceed 1.82 billion units and will be greater than the installed base for PCs thereafter.

Mobile Web users are typically prepared to make fewer clicks on a website than users accessing sites from a PC. Although a growing number of websites and Web-based applications offer support for small-form-factor mobile devices, many still do not. Websites not optimized for the smaller-screen formats will become a market barrier for their owners — much content and many sites will need to be reformatted/rebuilt.