Articles on advertising, websites, content, and inquiries

We cover what to check on a website before launching advertising, what happens after a form is submitted, how to plan content, and when a monthly collaboration works better than separate orders.

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Checking your company website against the GDPR

Three places where an ordinary website collects data and a half hour check that exposes gaps between the privacy policy and reality.

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Agency, freelancer or your own hire

The full cost of a hire including employer contributions next to external work, and where each option genuinely wins.

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The budget at which Google Ads starts to make sense

Why the amount matters less than whether it buys enough clicks to read a result at all.

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What monthly social media management costs

What makes up the monthly fee, why post count says little and where management ends and media budget begins.

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What a website costs for a small company in Germany

Real price ranges from the German market and the four factors that decide between 4,000 and 15,000 euro.

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What belongs in a German website Impressum

Mandatory details under §5 DDG, separately for sole traders and companies, and the four mistakes that draw warnings.

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Hosting Google Fonts yourself instead of loading them remotely

Why a remotely loaded font transmits the visitor IP, what the Munich court decided and how to check and fix it on your site.

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The 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.