5 Simple Strategies for Decreasing Shopping Cart Abandonment

• Be up front about prices; keep hidden fees and restrictions out of the equation.
• Offer multiple payment options; try not to restrict customers to a particular payment method.
• Offer product comparisons; allows customers to verify they are making the right purchase.
• Offer exclusive deals; highlight coupons, deals and more to make customers want to shop online.
• Don't require registration; allow customers to register for a proprietary account after a purchase.

Read why at Retargeter.

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Steve Jobs on Product Development

You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It's the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people "here's this great idea," then of course they can go off and make it happen.

And the problem with that is that there's just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. And you also find there are tremendous tradeoffs that you have to make. There are just certain things you can't make electrons do. There are certain things you can't make plastic do. Or glass do. Or factories do. Or robots do.

Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.

And it's that process that is the magic.

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Business cards are best done by professionals.

If you design your own business cards in Microsoft Word, then that is exactly what they will look like.

Read the comments on this article for some good pointers on business card design.