Web design Vienna

Businesses and customers in Vienna

Vienna is Austria's capital, home to roughly two million people and one of Europe's international centres. The UN has one of its main seats at the Vienna International Centre, the UNO-City in District 22, together with agencies such as the IAEA, and OPEC and the OSCE are based here too. Universities and private universities teach in English, among them WU, TU Wien, Webster Vienna and the Central European University, which moved its campus to Favoriten. Many international companies run their Central and Eastern European business from Vienna. The result is a large community of people who live in English: diplomats, researchers, students, managers and their families. They need doctors, therapists, hairdressers, schools, tradespeople and restaurants, and many of them start businesses of their own. At the same time, Vienna remains a German-speaking city with Austrian rules and Austrian words. A site that works here needs both languages and the right legal pages.

Why it matters in Vienna

From UNO-City to Neubau: where international Vienna lives

Vienna has 23 districts, numbered and named, and the postcode tells you which: 1010 is the Innere Stadt, 1070 Neubau, 1220 Donaustadt. The Viennese use the number all the time, in conversation and in searches. International residents cluster in a few areas. Around the UNO-City in Donaustadt and Kaisermühlen, many UN staff live close to work and to the Vienna International School. Families often pick the green districts in the west and north, Döbling, Währing and Hietzing. Younger expats and students lean toward Neubau, Mariahilf, Wieden and Leopoldstadt, close to cafés and the U-Bahn.

Students follow the campuses. WU sits next to the Prater in Leopoldstadt, TU Wien around Karlsplatz, the University of Vienna's main building on the Ring, and CEU in Favoriten. Each autumn, new students and staff arrive and look for a flat, a doctor, a gym and a hairdresser, mostly in English and mostly on their phones. If your business serves them, have your English page and Google profile ready by September.

Vienna also keeps a calendar of its own. Ball season in January and February fills hairdressers, tailors and dance schools. Advent markets bring visitors from mid-November. In summer, many businesses close for a few weeks, often in August. Google shows your profile as open unless you enter special hours, and a customer standing in front of a closed door is likely to leave a bad review. Keep the hours on the website and the profile identical, and update both before every holiday.

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