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Display Credit Card Logos and Boost Online Sales
When you shop at a business or store the first thing you usually see while walking up to the door is the merchant's hours, and a credit card logo, showing what types of credit cards the merchant can take. Potential customers assume that they will see those things. Occasionally the consumer will walk away, and the merchant will lose the business if they don't see the credit card logos.
The world of e-commerce isn't any different! It's been shown that one of the very first items an internet consumer searches for on your web site is a credit card logo image. This logo is extremely important, in that it tells the consumer some things. First it tells the potential buyer that you have got an internet merchant account, such as Authorize.net gateway, and that you take credit and bank cards. Secondly, the credit card logo tells the consumer exactly which credit cards you accept. Last, but not least, observing the credit card logo image gives the customer with confidence. Potential customers will know you're "a genuine company" because the credit card logo informs them that you have an internet merchant account and you welcome credit cards.
To be successful on the internet, you must provide your consumers with a lot of different options for payment. At a minimum, your internet merchant account ought to permit you to accept these credit card types: Discover, American Express, Mastercard, and Visa. By taking these types of credit cards, you'll be on the same playing field as other merchants. If you do not showcase the credit card logos on your internet home page, you can be certain that customers will keep looking until they find the home page of your top competitor. If perchance you have traffic on your web page, displaying a credit card logo will certainly increase your online sales.
You'll find different ways to add the credit card logo on your web site. When you signed up for your online merchant account, you most likely were mailed a welcome kit from your merchant account processor. This welcoming kit commonly contains copies of the credit card images. If you're good with a scanner, you should be able to scan these credit card logos, change them to an jpg or gif format, and add them on your website. This process is fairly easy, but it is certainly not the easiest way to get the credit card logo on your web page.
There are a lot of web sites on the net that offer credit card logos. Some online sites charge you for the logos, some won't charge. Doing some research about this topic, something that we discovered is that there are a lot of low quality credit card images out there. If you've got a site that's professional, and you display a credit card image of poor quality on your home page, what impression will your clients have?
Because we discovered that it was difficult to find a good solution, we elected to develop several webpages with the very best free credit card logos available. We have included logos in various heights, various widths, and various sizes. We are offering all these logos at absolutely no cost to you. We've made the process easy. Come by and visit www.TakeCardsToday.com, and double click on the "Free Credit Card Logo" link. More than fifty unique logos are available to choose from free of charge. We have also included fairly simple "cut and paste" html coding making it so you can simply cut and paste right into your html. You'll have card logos on your website in five or ten minutes (plus you'll increase your online profits). If you are an html dummy and don't know how to do this, we will put the images on your website for you (at no charge). Don't waste anymore time, place your complimentary credit card images on your web page right now, and do not let your merchant account go dormant.
This educational article was written by Todd Nelson, Marketing Director for Capital Merchant Solutions, Inc. ( www.TakeCardsToday.com ) CMS has been in the internet credit card processing business for well over 10 years, and offers free logos for credit cards and free merchant accounts to internet businesses and retail businesses. The article can be republished on the condition that absolutely no changes are made, and this last paragraph is also included. Copyright 2007- Capital Merchant Solutions,Inc - All rights reserved.
