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Showcase Credit Card Logos and Increase Your Internet Profits

When you shop at a store or business one of the first things you see while walking to the door is the business hours, and a credit card logo, showing what types of credit cards the merchant takes. Customers just assume that they will see this. Often the consumer will walk away, and the merchant misses out on the business if they can't see the logos.

The world of e-commerce isn't any different! Studies indicate that one of the very first things that an internet customer searches for on your online site is a credit card logo image. This credit card logo is crucial, because it tells the customer a couple of things. First it informs the potential buyer that you've got a retail mercant account, such as Authorize.net gateway, and that you do take credit cards. Second, the logo informs the buyer exactly which credit cards you accept. Finally, seeing the credit card logo image gives the potential customer confidence. The customer will know you are "a real business" in that the logo informs them that you've got a merchant account and that you take certain types of credit cards.

In order to have internet success, you should give your clients several different options for payment. At a bare minimum, your internet merchant account must allow you to welcome these main card types: Discover, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. By taking these cards, you will better be able to compete. If you don't showcase the credit card logos on your internet home page, you can be sure, your potential buyers will continue to browse until they find the online page of your competitor. In case there is traffic on your website, adding a credit card image will boost online sales.

You'll find several different methods to add the credit card logo on your webpage. When you set up your merchant account, you most likely received a kit in the mail from your merchant account processor. This kit generally contains copies of the logos. If you're decent with a scanner, you can scan these logos, convert them to a gif or ipg format, and add them to your website. This process isn't too hard, but it's certainly not the most simple method to add the credit card logo to your web page.

There are numerous websites on the internet that offer credit card logos. There are some sites that charge you for them, some are absolutely free. Having done research about this topic, something we discovered is that there are many poor quality credit card images available. If you have got a professional site, and then you display a credit card image of poor quality on your home page, what impression will your clients have?

Since we couldn't find a good solution, we decided to make several web pages with the very best free credit card logos on the market. We have included logos in various widths, various sizes, and various heights. We're providing these credit card logos at absolutely no cost to you. The process isn't difficult. Stop by www.TakeCardsToday.com, and click on the "Free Credit Card Logo" link. More than fifty unique credit card logos are available to choose from for free. Along with the free credit card images is a very simple "cut and paste" html coding making it so you can simply cut and paste directly into your html. You will have credit card logos on your website in just five or ten minutes (and internet sales will increase). If perhaps you do not understand html, we'll display the images on your web page for you (at no cost). do not waste anymore time, obtain your absolutely free credit card images on your web page right away, and do not let your merchant account expire.

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 credit card processing business for over ten years, and offers free credit card images and free merchant accounts to internet companies as well as retail businesses. The article can be republished as long as absolutely no changes are made, and this final paragraph is included. Copyright 2007- Capital Merchant Solutions,Inc - All rights reserved.