When you shop at a service business or retail store what you usually see walking up to the door are the business hours, and a credit card logo, showing what kinds of credit cards the merchant will accept. Consumers expect to see those things. There will be times when the consumer will walk away, and the merchant will lose the transaction if they don't see the credit card logos.

The internet world isn't any different! Studies have asserted that one of the first items an online consumer eyes on your webpage is a logo for a credit card. This logo is important, because it informs the customer about a few things. First it tells the buyer that you've got an internet merchant account, such as Authorize.net gateway, and that you do accept bank and credit cards. Secondly, this credit card logo image informs the customer explicitly what cards are welcomed. Last, but not least, seeing the credit card logo image provides the consumer confidence. Consumers will know you are "an actual company" because the credit card logo image informs them that you have got an internet merchant account and you welcome certain kinds of credit cards.

To be successful on the internet, you need to give your customers various options for payment. At a bare minimum, your retail merchant account need to allow you to welcome these main types of credit cards: Mastercard, Discover, Visa, and American Express. By taking these types of credit cards, you will be able to compete with other merchants. In the event you do not showcase the credit card logos on your web page, you can be sure that potential consumers will continue to look until they come upon your competitor's web page. If you've got traffic on your website, displaying a credit card logo will certainly increase your online sales.

There are a lot of ways to place the credit card logo on your site. When you signed up for your internet merchant account, you most likely were mailed a welcome kit from your merchant account processor. This kit normally contains copies of the credit card images. In the event you know how to use a scanner, then you can scan these logos, change them to an jpg or gif format, and add them to your webpage. This method isn't too difficult, but it is definitely not the most convenient method to display the logo on your webpage.

You'll find numerous sites on the net that have credit card logos. There are some that charge you for the credit card logos, some won't charge. Doing some research on this topic, one thing we found is that there are numerous poor quality logos out there. If you have a professional website, and you have got a credit card image of poor quality on your home page, what impression does that give your customers?

Because we were hard pressed to find a single great solution, we chose to create several webpages with the very best free credit card logos out there. We have included credit card logos in various sizes, various heights, and various widths. We are offering all of these credit card logos at absolutely no cost. We've made the process simple. Visit www.TakeCardsToday.com, and double click on the "Free Credit Card Logo" link. More than fifty unique credit card logos are readily available for free. Along with the free credit card images is a very simple "cut and paste" html coding so that you can easily cut and paste it directly in your html. You will have card logos on your home page in only five minutes (and you'll boost your online sales). If you don't know how to do coding, we'll put the images on your online home page for you (at no cost to you). do not waste your time, add your free logos on your web page right now, 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 free merchant account business for well over ten years, and provides free logos for credit cards and free merchant accounts to internet businesses and retail businesses. The article may be republished providing no changes are made, and this final paragraph is included. Copyright 2007- Capital Merchant Solutions,Inc - All rights reserved.