So today I did an email blast to flyte’s Maine-based contacts about our inaugural Working Lunch Seminar on Understanding Web Site Traffic Reports. (Sorry, but the email blast was successful. We’re all booked up. If you’d like to attend How to Plan, Build and Promote a Business Blog on Wed., February 21st, 2007 there’s still a few slots left.)
I got a number of responses, including a few people who wanted to attend but didn’t have PayPal accounts and weren’t sure how to pay.
It’s not cost-effective for flyte to take credit cards directly so we use PayPal to handle transactions for Visa, American Express, Master Card, Discover and Chalmer’s Big and Tall Men’s Shoppe, a seven-outlet chain in the Pacific Northwest.
For the past five or so years the following has been true:
You don’t need a PayPal account to pay via PayPal, all you need is a credit card.
Yet people still don’t know that. I don’t blame them, there’s too much information to know everything. In fact, maybe PayPal should be doing a better job of promoting the fact that anyone with a credit card and a mouse finger can use PayPal.
The lesson I’ve learned is that if I’m using PayPal and not taking credit cards directly, I need to go out of my way to explain that membership is not required for our Working Lunch Seminars.
However, a healthy appetite for flatbread pizza and learning is.
Rich Brooks
Web Marketing Seminars in Maine
