diff --git a/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl b/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl
index ba427d35bd84946410e6660f83725f48820ddcd8..8122a79ac44f6bd404739a2585be2a039b899075 100644
--- a/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl
+++ b/bin/slubsipbuilderbagit.pl
@@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ use Getopt::Long;
 use Path::Tiny;
 use Carp;                     # confess()
 use Pod::Usage;               # pod2usage()
+use List::Util qw(none);
 
 my $save;
 my $ieDirectory;
@@ -766,6 +767,14 @@ sub main{
     # get bag name
     my $bagNameDir = SLUB::LZA::SIPBuilderBagIt::generateBagName($exportToArchiveDate, $ppn, $noppn);
 
+    # user hints
+    my @keys;
+    for my $hash (@addBagInfo) {
+        push @keys, keys %{$hash};
+    }
+    SLUB::LZA::SIPBuilderBagIt::print_scalar_data("", "WARNING: No Title given. Please consider adding a human-readable title with '--add_key_value=Title:YOUR-TITLE'", "", "yellow")
+        if none { $_ =~ m/^[Tt][Ii][Tt][Ll][Ee]/ } @keys;
+
     # save options
     if($save eq "copy") {
         my $bagPath = "$outputPath/$bagNameDir";