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The Results of Project Icon
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The community has voted, and the votes have been tallied. The winner of Project Icon, with 35% of the votes, is Entry ID “BD,” otherwise known as Ben Dunkle. Congratulations, Ben! The runner-up was VS, otherwise known as Verena Segert, so we’ll be attaching that set to the alternate color palette that is selectable from the profile screen. As we prepare for RC1, Ben and Verena will be revising a couple of their icons so that both sets will use the same metaphors, creating the colored “on” states, and creating the larger size of each icon for use in the h2 screen headers. We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to select from so many great options, and would like to express again our appreciation for all the designers who participated in the contest. Thanks also to the more than 3700 people who completed the voting survey and took the time to weigh on on the individual icon sets.
Q.18 Which one of the sets do you think we should use as a basis for the 2.7 icons? | ||
Icon Set | # of votes | % of votes |
BD | 1285 | 35% |
VS | 1080 | 29% |
GB2 | 424 | 11% |
OSD | 376 | 10% |
LS | 300 | 8% |
GB1 | 235 | 6% |
The wide lead of BD and VS made it clear that voters had a clear preference for these sets.
Q.20 If you could choose a runner-up, which would you choose? | ||
Icon Set | # of votes | % of votes |
VS | 916 | 27% |
BD | 647 | 19% |
LS | 522 | 16% |
OSD | 488 | 14% |
GB2 | 462 | 14% |
GB1 | 331 | 10% |
Question 20 was not mandatory, so a few hundred people skipped it, but the responses we did get (3366 of them) reinforced the fact that the two most popular sets were also the most popular 2nd choices, which made the decision of the judges to go with the popular vote an easy one (take that, electoral college!).
A few of the individual icon metaphors also had a significant lead over the other choices.
Dashboard: 1333 voters (40%) chose a house as the best metaphor. We agree, so both Ben and Verena will be replacing their Dashboard icons.
Media: 2097 voters (65%) chose the combination camera + musical note icon, which was part of Ben’s set. We also really loved it, and Verena will amend her media icon to incorporate this idea.
Plugins: 1682 voters (53%) selected the outlet plug metaphor, which both Ben and Verena used in their sets.
Tools: 1581 voters (49%) liked the combination of two tools better than anything else, so Ben and Verena will try this approach.
So those are the results, and soon you’ll see the new icons coming to a 2.7 installation near you.
Need another look at the entries to remember which one you liked best? Here are some reminder images, as well as the identity of each set’s creator.
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If you need to hire an icon designer any time soon, we highly recommend our Project Icon contestants, who all delivered great work in a very short timeframe. It was great to work with all of them, even for such a short assignment.
So, to sum up:
- The winning icon sets by Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert will be incorporated into WordPress 2.7 RC1.
- Someone should write a plugin that would allow anyone to upload a custom icon set (I bet the other contestants could be convinced to release their icon sets for such a purpose).
- 2.7 is still trucking away, but we can always use help with patches, especially for IE6! (I know, that wasn’t in the main post, but it’s true, so hmph)
Thanks again to everyone who participated in this experiment, and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. And congratulations again to Ben and Verena!
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6 Digital Marketing Trends for Better Ecommerce Conversions
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To stay ahead of the digital marketing game, it’s not enough to understand and apply basic industry concepts. Being up to date on trends is a key component of successful digital marketing because the digital world, like everyone in your target demographic, is continually evolving.
Marketing trends can come and go as quickly as fashion, technology, or pop culture. It is, however, simple to keep ahead of the game.
6 Key Trends to Increase eCommerce Conversions
Use the following trends to your advantage. This list will assist you in strategizing and planning for your eCommerce business’s future. Let’s take a look at how these trends could benefit marketing.
Shopping in a Social Environment
Shopping at the mall in a bunch has mostly been replaced by social shopping. That isn’t to say that people don’t prefer to flaunt their recent purchase.
They make it easy for shoppers to click, buy, and share their happy news online with all of their connections using shoppable posts like Instagram Galleries.
For businesses that can target these networked buyers with new discounts and other incentives, it’s marketing gold. So let’s start with Incrementors for better services experiences.
Retailers should concentrate their efforts on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest, in addition to Instagram. Sixty percent of Instagram users say they discover new products, and seventy percent of those do take action. Retailers cannot ignore the popularity of social shopping.
AI helps retailers in learning more about their customers
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning enable customers to enjoy automated, personalised purchase experiences.
AI collects data on how customers shop when they make purchases, and what they’re seeking in a product or service regularly. It’s a technology that can’t be recreated in a physical location.
On social media, we’ve seen the inverse phenomenon, when AIs learn from humans’ more negative comments, but it’s extremely likely that consumers would seek the impact.
Customer reviews might help to build trust
So, you’ve begun utilising Instagram Shopping. When it comes to bringing the traffic to the desired place things are going quite well, but things aren’t going so well in terms of those pageviews converting into sales at a high rate.
It might now affect the ratings at first but slowly with time you will start to notice a drastic change as your business grows.
Customer feedback, to be precise. Consumers with limited discretionary cash are wary of spending their money, and nothing is more reassuring (read: compelling) than a wonderful review from someone who has purchased one or more of your products.
Ratings and reviews on product pages are a tested method of converting more site visitors into buyers.
Personalization
Everyone enjoys receiving a birthday gift, and they value the attention and personal attention that comes with it. Personalization is an effective marketing tactic.
Your online clients need individualised service, and there are several ways to provide it, all of which are supported by AI and machine learning too. Incrementors help the marketers to improve the conversion which eventually leads to business growth.
Send relevant products to your customers while they explore, search, or check out. “Visitors who watched this also viewed” referrals account for 68 percent of some retailers’ revenue.
Referral marketing
One last piece of e-commerce marketing advice: leverage the power of referral marketing to turn your most devoted clients’ enthusiasm into a regular stream of new business.
The best way to take your business to a whole new scale where you can just use the word of mouth technique and can increase your user base.
For those who don’t know what referral marketing is, it is the process of motivating your consumers to tell others about how much they love your company. It’s comparable to gathering client testimonials in terms of strategy, with the exception that it’s more direct.
Chatbots
Your prospects are more likely to trust their close ones than random online strangers. Your prospects are more likely to trust their close ones than random online strangers. Chatbots make shopping more enjoyable.
Chatbots communicate with internet shoppers in the same way that a human salesperson would. Today customers expect that they can identify the products just with a single click. A chatbot can help save a lot of time in such a situation.
Experts expect that by 2022, 85 percent of enterprises will use chatbots.
Chatbots provide a wide range of services. However, I believe they will have a significant impact on how consumers shop online. Self-checkout kiosks will very certainly become the norm in retail, and in-store marketing will grow.”
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Conclusion
So there you have it: your handy guide to the top digital marketing trends we predict will be big in 2022. The best way to stay competitive, grow, and secure consumer loyalty is to stay on top of it with the current trends going on.
It’s going to be a big year for technical advancements, marketing tools, and forward-thinking strategies, so make your new year’s resolutions about your adaptability, flexibility, and readiness to evolve with the times.
Author BIO – Shiv Gupta is the Founder and Head of Growth at Incrementors. Incrementors is an Award-Winning Digital Marketing Agency that helps clients to grow their business online by generating more traffic, leads, and sales. Incrementors specializes in providing customized, tailored online marketing solutions highly specific to the needs of the clients.
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WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1
With the release of RC1, we’re in the final leg of development before the release of 2.7. 280 commits since beta 3 have polished the new admin UI (including new menu icons created by the winners of our icon design contest) and fixed all known blocker bugs. We think RC1 is ready for everyone to try out. Please download RC1 and help us make the final release the best it can be. As always, back up your blog before upgrading.
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Bug Fix OIOPulisher 2.07
As I have mentioned before, I am using the OIO Publisher Plugin, which you can see/use/purchase by clicking on the advertisement ad, or my advert page.
Anyway, it suddenly was not working and would say “plugin off line” on the purchase page, when it most certainly was not.
After contacting Simon over at OIO. I got a quick response to view this forum thread.
Indeed, this fix worked!
Here is what you need to do.
OPEN
include/config.php
FIND
if($oiopub_set->wp_load == 1) {
include_once($oiopub_set->wp_config);
}REPLACE WITH
if($oiopub_set->wp_load == 1) {
$oio_cwd = getcwd();
chdir(str_replace("/wp-config.php", "", $oiopub_set->wp_config));
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