Badges
Badger, Badger, Badger
Nope, I'm not writing about these badgers, but rather about some of the new features we've rolled out in the new user center. When you log in with your email address and password, you're now presented with two things: 1) a list of your Smokingpipes.com Badges (more on this in a moment), 2) A list of your most purchased items, and 3) An address book where you can manage, edit and remove the addresses you've used with Smokingpipes.com.
We rolled out all of those massive changes that made Smokingpipes.com such a pain to use for about a week there for a good reason. Specifically, we wanted to make the Smokingpipes.com experience coolness factor more personal and, well, even more cool than it already was. We're just beginning to roll out some of the things that are planned and we have, I am sure, a ton more bits to add and integrate that we haven't even thought of yet. But, for now, there are those three.
The top items list is pretty self explanatory. We created a list of your most purchased tobaccos, cigars and accessories to make it super easy for you to get to the things that you most frequently purchase.
The badges are little markers that denote various things you've done at Smokingpipes.com. Right now, there are about fifteen of them, but we expect that to grow massively over the coming months and years. Examples include having X number of pipes from a given country in your collection, or the length of time you've been purchasing from Smokingpipes.com, or the number of different tobacco blends you've tried, whether you've bought a pipe or tobacco related book and a bunch of others. In time, we hope to integrate all of this into the website such that we can also have badges for blog comments and other sorts of site interactions too, but we're a little ways away on that. Anyway, each badge has three tiers right now (though we might add a fourth tier down the road).
In all, we just want to make Smokingpipes.com more fun to use and tailor it to your particular tastes better. We'll be doing a ton of stuff over the next few weeks especially on this front. Stay tuned!
If you have any ideas, suggestions, criticisms, please post in the comments section, or email me directly at sykes.wilford@smokingpipes.com and we'll see what we can do!
In my Order History not appear at least five orders that I did between September 2003 and November 2005. I did not give importance to this before, but if to have a silver or gold badge will bring some advantage I would like that these lost orders to be included in my Order History.
Sorry for the Google translation
I fixed it for you. They other orders were under another email address you had. They should all show up together.
Right now, the badges don't get you anything special. We might target specific specials or, well, something, based on them in the future.
Mostly, we thought it'd be fun to do, but don't know how all we'll use it just yet. The idea for now was to build a platform upon which we could build other things.
Sykes
Thanks!
