B2B: business-to-business
B2B: business-to-business
  • Online sales

B2B – short for business-to-business – is familiar to many sales and marketing professionals. But what exactly does the term mean, and how does a B2B company appeal to potential customers? The changes that digitalization is bringing to business processes is presenting new challenges to companies, and the B2B industry is no exception. In this guide, you will learn how to respond appropriately to...

B2B: business-to-business
How to enable cookies in your browser
How do I enable cookies in my web browser?
  • Website creation

Cookies save user information during website access to improve the page’s user-friendliness or record customer behavior. They’re responsible for noting down login data, browser settings, and other useful information so that you don’t have to set everything up again each time you visit the same site. Cookies can be completely or partially enabled, or just enabled for particular websites. How to...

How do I enable cookies in my web browser?
SMTP Server
What is an SMTP Server?
  • Technical matters

Anyone familiar with the technicalities of the e-mail sending process will invariably come across the term “SMTP server” at some point. But how exactly does this unit of hardware and software – which invisibly transports the typical consumer’s e-mail from A to B – work? Understanding how this type of server functions is information that can be used to your advantage when it comes to manually...

What is an SMTP Server?
Web analytics and data privacy
Web analytics: data privacy when creating a profile
  • Web analytics

Tracking tools can provide website operators with a useful indication on how to adapt an online project to suit a target group. These tools focus on user profiles, which reveal how users find the website, and which content provokes interactions. This information is based on user data, which can be subject to stringent data protection guidelines in some countries within the European Union. Find out...

Web analytics: data privacy when creating a profile
Personal data
Everything you need to know about personal data
  • Digital law

What do your e-mail address, eye color, preferred political party, and license plate have in common? They can all be regarded as personal data which companies and cybercriminals can use to draw direct or indirect conclusions about your physical, physiological, genetic, psychological, economic, cultural, or social identity. It goes without saying that this sensitive information must be protected...

Everything you need to know about personal data
SMTP
What is SMTP? Definition and basics
  • Technical matters

SMTP stands for “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” – but it’s not that simple. E-mails do not simply travel directly from A to B, but go through several communication and transmission processes that the standard network protocol has been responsible for since the 1980s. As an electronic set of rules from the internet protocol family, SMTP (and its extension, ESMTP) determines important factors such...

What is SMTP? Definition and basics
SMTP-Auth
What is SMTP authentication? Secure e-mail against spam
  • Technical matters

Is your mail server configured with SMTP AUTH? If not, you should do so as soon as possible. Professional spammers are happy to see every open relay that they can use for the distribution of their junk mail. Such spam is not only hassle for the receiver, but also unnecessarily increases your server traffic and damages your online reputation. This security gap can be closed with the simple ESMTP...

What is SMTP authentication? Secure e-mail against spam
A New Way to WordPress: Things to Know About Gutenberg
A New Way to WordPress: 4 Things to Know About Gutenberg
  • CMS

As the launch of WordPress 5.0 approaches, website owners and developers are raising questions about the new Gutenberg plugin. In four easy points, this article provides a detailed overview of the usability, new features and technicalities of WordPress’ Gutenberg plugin, read on to find out more about this exciting update.

A New Way to WordPress: 4 Things to Know About Gutenberg
Step-by-Step Banner Design
Banner design: how to design your own banners
  • Online sales

Advertising banners are an elementary component of online marketing. Well-designed advertisements invite the viewer to take advantage of your offer. Therefore, well-made graphics can generate attention, clicks, and ultimately sales. However, many things can go wrong when it comes to banner design. We explain to you in a step-by-step guide what constitutes good banner advertising and which mistakes...

Banner design: how to design your own banners
Readability index
Readability Index – what is it?
  • Search engine marketing

The readability of online texts influences not only user satisfaction, but also the search engine ranking. In this respect, it is an important criteria for SEO measures. So-called readability indexes measure how comprehensible a text is. Google also seems to take readability into account because texts with good legibility are easier to read. We introduce the Flesch Index, the Flesch Kincaid Index,...

Readability Index – what is it?