Advertise Credit Card Logos and Maximize Your Online Profits

When you shop at a business or retail store the first thing you usually see while heading to the door are the hours of business, and a credit card logo, showing what credit card types the store will accept. Customers expect that they will see those things. Often the customer will walk away, and the merchant will lose the sale if they don't see the logos.

The world of internet retail is not different! Studies have shown that one of the initial items that an internet customer looks for on an online site is a credit card logo image. This credit card image is terribly important, because it tells the customer some things. First it tells the potential buyer that you have got a merchant account, such as Authorize.net gateway, and that you do accept cards. Secondly, the credit card logo relays to the potential customer exactly which cards you will take. Lastly, seeing the credit card image provides the potential buyer confidence. They know you are "an actual business" in that the credit card image tells them you've got an online merchant account and you take certain kinds of credit cards.

To have success online, you must give customers as many different payment options as possible. At a bare minimum, your retail merchant account need to allow you to accept these main credit card types: American Express, Visa, Discover, and Mastercard. By processing these types of credit cards, you'll better be able to compete. In the event you do not prominently exhibit the credit card logos on your internet home page, rest assured, your potential consumers will keep looking until they arrive at the website of your top competitor. If you have got traffic on your online site, adding a credit card logo will increase your business profits.

You'll find numerous methods to get the credit card logo on your online site. When you setup your online merchant account, you most likely received a welcoming kit in the mail from the processor of your account. This welcoming kit usually contains copies of the credit card images. If you're decent with a scanner, then you'll be able to scan these credit card logos, change them to an jpg or gif format, and publish them to your website. This procedure is fairly easy, however it is certainly not the easiest method to place the logo on your online site.

There are several websites on the internet that promote credit card logos. Some online sites charge you for them, some are free. Having done some research about this issue, something that we discovered is that there are many lower quality credit card logos out there. If you have got a professional site, and you have a credit card image of poor quality on the home page, what impression does that give your customers?

Because we quickly found that it was hard to find a great solution, we elected to develop several webpages with the very best free credit card logos out there. We have included logos in various widths, various heights, and various sizes. We're providing these credit card logos at absolutely no cost. We have made the process quite simple. Visit www.TakeCardsToday.com, and click on the "Free Credit Card Logo" link. More than fifty different credit card images are readily available absolutely free. We have also included fairly simple "cut and paste" html coding making it so you can easily cut and paste it directly into your html. You'll have credit card images on your web page in five or ten minutes (and you'll boost your sales at the same time). If you are an html dummy and don't know how to do this, we'll place the credit card logos on your home page for you (absolutely free). Don't waste your time anymore, obtain your complimentary credit card images on your website right now, and do not allow your merchant account to go dormant.

This educational article was written by Todd Nelson, Marketing Director for Capital Merchant Solutions, Inc. ( www.TakeCardsToday.com ) Capital Merchant Solutions has been in the internet credit card processing business for over 10 years, and provides free credit card images and free merchant account to online businesses in addition to retail businesses. The article may be republished as long as absolutely no changes are made, and this final paragraph is also included. Copyright 2007- Capital Merchant Solutions,Inc - All rights reserved.