What stays measurable when visitors decline consent
Why analytics shows less than reality, which data stays lawful without consent and how to count enquiries and calls as your unit.
Read articleRework the website or rebuild it
Five signs a rework is enough, four that force a rebuild and what survives the move without losing rankings.
Read articleA careers page on your own website
What candidates look for on your site after the job board, how to word the role lawfully and why long forms drive strong applicants away.
Read articleStarting a newsletter under German rules
Why having an address is not permission, how double opt in works, what to keep as proof of consent and what to do with an old list.
Read articleCollecting reviews without breaking the rules
What you may offer for a review, what a site showing reviews must disclose, why filtering happy customers is risky and how to answer criticism.
Read articleWhat Marketing Actually Costs in Germany. The Full Comparison Across Three Models
The full cost of a hire including employer contributions next to the freelancer rate and the agency tariff, broken down by area, plus a calculator for your own task list.
Read articleSetting up a Google Business Profile without a shopfront
How to set up the profile when you travel to customers, what a service area is and which fields affect visibility most.
Read articleWhen a social post has to be marked as advertising
What counts as advertising under German rules, which wording works as a label, where it must sit and who is liable when an agency posts.
Read articleA Content Plan When There Is No Marketing Department
A practical system for owners running social media themselves, without a marketing department. How much time it really takes, what to delegate, and where to start this week.
Read articleWhich images you may use on a company website
Three image sources and what each allows, where crediting is mandatory and why a website licence may not cover advertising.
Read articleWhen a monthly retainer works better than one-off orders
A monthly format is not for everyone. It makes sense when work repeats, connects across tasks and needs ongoing prioritization.
Read articleWhat happens to an enquiry after a form is submitted
A form only collects data. What happens next needs deciding in advance, where the enquiry goes, who sees it and how to confirm the chain actually works.
Read articleThe Illia BizTech articles section covers practical questions that companies and self-employed professionals in Germany run into when working with a website, advertising, social media, and inquiries. Here you'll find articles on preparing a website before launching an ad campaign, forms and handling inquiries, content planning, ongoing collaboration with a service provider, and related technical tasks. The articles are built around a specific question, not general marketing advice. If an article is about advertising, it looks not just at the ad account but also at the landing page, the offer, and the form. If the topic is about inquiries, it also covers what happens after a form is submitted and where the customer's data ends up next.
The articles may include examples from Meta Ads, websites built on modern CMS and frontend technologies, contact forms, CRM, REST APIs, webhooks, online booking, notifications, and automation services. On the content side, they cover Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, short videos, carousels, and other formats businesses use in practice. A given article doesn't mean a company has to use the specific service named. If a website, CRM, or ad account already exists, it's usually worth assessing the existing setup first and only then deciding what to change. That approach connects individual recommendations to a company's actual work, rather than to an abstract set of tools.
