- Knowing the customer base as well as the potential customer market. If you are marketing to one core group already, the internet may allow you to reach a broader population without huge expenditures. 

- Know what is selling in the area and offer options that will make your site more attractive to the average buyer. Do you allow for pre-ordering and then picking up the item at the store? Do have shipping- and if so, do you have shipping that is attractively priced and almost irresistible? Do you offer a discount for ordering online?

 -Know your competition as well. If they are having a 30% of sale, yours should be 35% off. If they have free shipping for orders over $20, yours should be free for all orders. (For a limited time of course.) Whatever the competing retailers are doing, your website should at least match it, even if it cannot beat them. 

-Finally, know how well your web design is working. Ask for feedback and listen to the responses. Everyone hates the color? Change it then. Slow loading and freeze up problems with the site? Consider what is creating the problem and if it is really necessary.

Every business owners knows that there are several things they must keep in mind when they start or expand a business of any kind. First, they must know the product or service that they are providing better than anybody else in the area. Next, they must know who their target consumer group is currently and who they could potentially expand their marketing to reach. And finally, they must know how to reach the majority of their customers without a lot of needless expense and wasted time. Marketing your business, regardless of size on the internet makes perfect sense, but it takes a good website and for that you will need solid web design.  So contact H Built Web Design for all your design and marketing needs.

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I finally took the time to take the Google Advertising Professional Exam.  Since I have been using AdWords now for 1315 days I figured I should know some of the answers.  Here is what I did to pass it.

In the AdWords learning center I took all the quizzes, if I did badly on a subject I reviewed the lesson.  Also when you got a quiz question wrong it would give you a good explanation of the right answer. 

You will need to study.  I would say even if you are an AdWords expert you would only get about half the question correct without studying.

The test itself:

90 minutes for 110 questions.

I would say at least 10 of the question did not make a whole lot sense. You have to read the question very carefully because I found several instances if I hadn’t re-read the question I would have gotten it wrong.

You have enough time to look up about 20 questions so if you think you can just look up all the answer that is not going to work for you.

I didn’t have any question on the following subject Google Analytics, Payments Outside the U.S., Account Types, Setup and Structure.