How can LinkedIn work for businesses?
LinkedIn for businesses: curate a professional image
  • Social media

LinkedIn is not just another social media site. The business-oriented networking platform offers companies a number of special advantages, which means your LinkedIn marketing strategy and content should be unique. With the focus on building professional relationships, you can reach users in a different way to Facebook or Twitter. LinkedIn is the perfect platform for businesses to recruit and...

LinkedIn for businesses: curate a professional image
Social plugins and privacy
Social plugins and privacy: how to use the ‘like’ button legally
  • Social media

For website operators looking to increase their outreach, the advantages of social media buttons are obvious; content can be spread and followers can be generated with just one click of the ‘Tweet’ button, the ‘Like on Facebook’ social plugin, or the ‘Follow on Instagram’ link. These helpful extensions are great tools for expanding an internet presence, but critics warn that these plugins don’t go...

Social plugins and privacy: how to use the ‘like’ button legally
Dereferrer | anonymizing links made easy
Anonymizing links – advantages and disadvantages of dereferrer
  • Technical matters

Privacy is one of the most important aspects of the Internet. Whoever wants to protect themselves will hopefully begin with one of the most basic elements of the World Wide Web: the hyperlink. References from one webpage to the other usually lead in one direction only – information exchange via HTTP, however, takes place in both directions. To prevent this from occurring, Internet users used to...

Anonymizing links – advantages and disadvantages of dereferrer
Cease-and-desist letters in e-commerce
Copyright law in e-commerce
  • Digital law

Legal disputes don’t necessarily have to be settled in court. In many cases, copyright law-related issues can be resolved outside of court using a cease-and-desist letter. In this guide, we provide an overview of what you should include in an official warning as well as a guide to responding to legal warnings.

Copyright law in e-commerce
Information overload – too much advertising?
Information overload in the era of mass media
  • Online sales

Every day we are bombarded with adverts and messages loaded with all sorts of information. And there are those that argue that globalization has meant that the market has become saturated with products. Many consumers feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information. This so-called information overload means that consumers take in hardly any adverts anymore. Here you can find out exactly what...

Information overload in the era of mass media
Snapchat marketing for businesses
Snapchat in social media marketing: tips and examples for companies
  • Social media

Social media marketing through Snapchat is something that many companies find challenging. Using the platform for advertising is in many ways quite different compared to other social media campaigns; e.g. on Facebook or Twitter. Successfully implementing a Snapchat campaign requires a comprehensive understanding of the range of functions of the app and as well as its users. We provide some...

Snapchat in social media marketing: tips and examples for companies
WCAG: guidelines for web accessibility
WCAG - W3C guidelines for easily accessible web content
  • Web development

The W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) offers website operators a list of suggestions for the creation of making their web offers accessible. To this end, WCAG is based on 4 principles: Perceptibility, usability, intelligibility, and robustness. These are supported by 12 fundamental guidelines on how to tailor web content for people with sensory, motor, or cognitive limitations.

WCAG - W3C guidelines for easily accessible web content
Social Plugins | boost interactivity on your website
Social plugins: expand your outreach on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, et al.
  • Social media

Link your online project with your social media presence and enable cross-site interactions with the help of social plugins. By enabling like, share, and comment functions, website owners can increase the outreach of text posts, images, and videos exponentially, thanks to the ever-growing social media user base. Implementing social media plugins into your website can help you transform visitors...

Social plugins: expand your outreach on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, et al.
Optimizing multilingual websites for search engines
Multilingual websites in e-commerce: international SEO
  • Search engine marketing

If you want your website to gain ground on the international stage, it’s crucial to be able to offer your content in a range of languages. But it takes more than just a good translation to keep all the versions of your site at the top of the search engine results pages. Without adequate SEO measures, your multilingual websites can quickly fall short of the mark.

Multilingual websites in e-commerce: international SEO
Online video marketing – opportunities for businesses
Video marketing – Content marketing 2.0
  • Online sales

Online video marketing is an increasingly popular form of advertising, which can be easily integrated into social media channels. This article explains what you need to consider in order to enrich your campaign with video marketing. These helpful tips for video marketing on the five most popular social media platforms will help you to decide which strategy is best for you.

Video marketing – Content marketing 2.0