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ACCEPTING PAYMENT

At last, this is going to be a short section…I hope!

All right, so you have a great website, you have visitors who love your information and want to buy your products. How do you accept their money?

There are again thousands of shopping carts and payment processors out there but only a few that are marketer’s favorites. I will make this section as simple as 1-2-3 for you.

STEP ONE:

1. Shopping cart    2. Payment processor and let you accept credit card payments    3. You get an auto-responder service, essential to keep offering products and services to your existing customers    4. They have a complete affiliate program if you want other marketers to promote your products and get a commission.         ...and much more

    If you are not certain you want to make that kind of investment, you can always take their trial offer for a few dollars.

STEP TWO:

     If you are only looking for a payment processing company, I found that 2checkout.com has given me good service.

STEP THREE:

In case you are completely satisfied with the two providers above, you need to know you cannot discard the third provider below: Paypal.

I am aware that there are many unsatisfied customers (but then again some people seem to enjoy whining all day long) with the Paypal service and I encourage you to do a Google search (typing in “Paypal sucks”) and make your own opinion. I personally have been satisfied with the Paypal service and had many customers who did not feel comfortable giving their credit card numbers and paid with Paypal. These were sales I would have missed.

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

Which brings me to my last topic:

TRUST:

I frequently receive emails from people who want my products but are not comfortable giving their credit card numbers over the net and want to send me a check or money order. I sometimes give in their request but find it a lot of trouble (they forget to calculate the shipping fees, send the wrong amount (always less than needed), I have to go to the bank, etc, etc

You can decide altogether to refuse other forms of payment and that will be fine My experience is that, by simply answering their email, it gave them confidence enough that the next morning they passed an order with their credit card.

Click here to see what Honeste Online has to offer.

HERE IS YOUR CALL TO ACTION:

Here is your call to action in choosing a payment processor and insuring that your customers feel confident in trusting you with their hard-earned money.

     1) Find a shopping cart you trust and want to use.1shoppingcart

     2) Find a merchant account you trust and want to use. 2checkout.com

3) Find a company that will build trust and will make you customer feel confident to buy from you: it can either be Safeguard, Hackersafe,                                               Honesteonline or any other Cie you feel you can trust and need.

4) Open a Paypal account and start receiving payments.

See you on the next square!

 Nathalie