Display Credit Card Logos and Maximize Profits Online

When you shop at a service business or retail store one of the first things you see when you head up to the door are the hours of business, and a credit card logo, showing what kinds of credit cards the merchant takes. Potential customers assume that they will see this. There will be times when the consumer will walk away, and the store will lose the business if they do not see the credit card logos.

The ecommerce world is not any different! Studies indicate that one of the initial things an internet customer eyes on your web site is a logo for a credit card. This logo is remarkably important, in that it informs the consumer of a few things. First it informs the customer that you have an internet merchant account, such as Authorize.net gateway, and that you do take cards. Second, this credit card logo image informs the potential buyer precisely which credit cards you accept. Lastly, seeing the credit card logo image gives the customer confidence. The potential customer knows you are "an actual business" because the credit card logo image tells them you've got a merchant account and that you take credit cards.

To have online success, you should give consumers several different options for payment. At a minimum, your retail merchant account must let you welcome the following types of credit cards: American Express, Mastercard, Visa, and Discover. By accepting these types of cards, you will better be able to compete. If you don't advertise the credit card logos on your web page, you can be certain that potential customers will keep browsing until they arrive at the web page of your competitor. If there is existing traffic on your site, displaying a credit card logo certainly will increase your online sales.

You'll find several different ways to add the credit card logo on your web site. When you setup your internet merchant account, you likely received a welcome kit in the mail from your merchant account processor. This welcome kit will most likely contain copies of the credit card logos. If you know how to use a scanner, you should be able to scan the credit card logos, change them to a gif or ipg format, and add them to your internet site. This approach is fairly simple, but it is certainly not the easiest method to get the credit card logo on your web site.

There are numerous different sites on the net that offer credit card logos. Some sites charge you for the credit card logos, others charge nothing. Having conducted some research about this subject, something that we found is that there are a lot of poor quality credit card logos available. If you have got a professional web site, and then you display a poor quality card logo on the home page, what impression will your clients have?

Since we discovered that it was difficult to find one great solution, we chose to make several webpages with the most ideal free credit card logos available. We have also included logos in various widths, sizes and heights. We are providing all these credit card logos at absolutely no cost to you. We have made the process remarkably simple. Go to www.TakeCardsToday.com, and double click on the "Free Credit Card Logo" link. More than fifty different logos are available free of charge. Along with the free credit card logos is a simple "cut and paste" html coding allowing you to simply cut and paste it right into your html. You'll have credit card logos on your website in five or ten minutes (and you'll boost your sales at the same time). If you don't understand html coding, we'll place the images on your website for you (at no cost to you). do not waste your time, find your complimentary credit card logos on your web page now, and do not let your merchant account go dormant.

This educational article was authored by Todd Nelson, Marketing Director for Capital Merchant Solutions, Inc. ( www.TakeCardsToday.com ) Capital Merchant Solutions has been in the retail merchant account business for more than ten years, and features free merchant accounts and free logos to online companies along with retail businesses. The article may be republished providing absolutely no changes are made, and this final paragraph is also included. Copyright 2007- Capital Merchant Solutions,Inc - All rights reserved.