Kinga Edwards, Author at E-commerce Germany News

CBEC in Germany. How Germans feel about cross-border e-commerce

Let’s dig into what Germans like about cross border e-commerce. Do they like it? How do they shop? Do they trust it? Let’s find out. If they decide on this form of shopping, they often choose large, world-known online stores with established opinion. Most Germans (55%) prefer shopping on websites that are in their native language. Only 20% of consumers admit that they trust out-of-country and German stores equally. From…

Top 30 Online Shops in Germany 2023

Amazon, Otto or Zalando? Explore the leading online shops in the German market.

EBE20 recap: Trends and sustainability in German E-Commerce [idealo]

Idealo as one of the leading e-commerce platforms in Germany can be recognized as an authority about DACH ecom trends. Katharina Huke performs the role of CCO, and she would like to share with her audience a couple of insights about this market. What is Idealo? For those who don’t know – Idealo is the fourth e-commerce and transactional platform in Germany. They’re direct competitors to platforms such as e-bay…

5 E-commerce Security Myths You Should Stop Believing

In 2020, we are seeing the e-commerce industry reach its zenith. With people locked inside their homes the only resort they have is to buy products online. However, consumers remain extremely concerned about the privacy and security that e-commerce websites offer. This concern is not entirely misplaced because there are many threats plaguing the ecommerce industry like malware, data breach, payment frauds, eavesdropping, denial of service attack, etc. There are…

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Brand Niche: Should My Online Business Go Targeted Or Go Broad?

Conflicting advice is hardly uncommon in the business world. Anyone who achieves some measure of success can easily assume that their approach is the correct one, when in reality things are nowhere near that clear-cut. For instance, take the matter of brand targeting: what’s the best way to realise the full potential of your business? Some will say that the right move is to specialize: to finely hone your brand…

EBE20 recap: The truth behind mass personalisation [Madeone]

E-commerce Berlin Expo brings us a lot of priceless knowledge, and we cannot have a better opportunity to make use of it. Today we would like to work on one of the most insightful ones. Christian Mohring, Founder and CEO of MadeOne, ex-Digital Commerce Manager at Nike, and ex-Head of Digital at IKEA would like to take us into the world of customization. So grab a cup of coffee, play…

EBE20 recap: How to expand to new marketing in 100 days? [Marley Spoon]

During the #StayHome movement, we indeed stay home and keep watching presentations from the E-commerce Berlin Expo 2020! Since we have a lot of really valuable content to go through, it takes us some time to put it all together in the form of transcripts. However, here comes the surprise! Today, we decided to take a deeper look at the presentation delivered by Dijana Dimitrovska from Marley Spoon. Dijana gave…

Best WooCommerce Tips To Make Your Website More Effective

Setting up an online store is no longer a difficult task. Where WordPress offers the ease to start a website, the WooCommerce plugin makes it easier for the offline store owners to take their business online and set up a store. Even startup enthusiasts and entrepreneurs have their way when planning to test their career in the eCommerce industry. Sign up on the WordPress website, download the plugin, add products…

E-commerce Berlin Expo 2020 recap: How to run your e-commerce business? Key takeaways from Made.com & Beiersdorf

We cannot believe that it has already been a month since our E-commerce Berlin Expo 2020 took place in STATION-Berlin! However, the memories are still vivid. We decided to analyze some of our presentations from the EBE2020 and show you some key takeaways coming from them. Today, we are going to tell you a few words about what Gemma Comabella from Made.com shared with us as well as Tom Pham…

“If we want to offer customers a unique customer experience each time they visit their favorite online shop, we need to accompany them on each step of their journey through the shop” – interview with Thorsten Mühling (epoq)

Thorsten Mühling, Co-Founder & CEO at epoq, shared with us the story of founding epoq, as well as views on e-commerce trends in 2020. Keep on reading to find out more! Can you share with us your story of how you founded epoq? My business partner Michael Bernhard and I founded our first company back in 2003. Our goal was to bring in an automated self-learning technology for dynamic scoring,…

“Businesses’ mobile communication is the new window shopping” – interview with Lisa Dauvermann (Facebook)

We’re happy to publish our interview with Lisa Dauvermann, Industry Lead eCommerce at Facebook. Find out how will Facebook’s role change in the e-commerce industry in the next few years. What are your main responsibilities as an Industry Lead eCommerce at Facebook?In my position as Head of Commerce Platforms DACH at Facebook, I lead the team that is working with our eCommerce clients on building sustainable strategies to grow their…

“Cybercriminals are very opportunistic and will target smaller e-retailers as well as big ones” – interview with Max Laemmle (Fraugster)

We had a pleasure ask a few questions to Max Laemmle, CEO and Founder at Fraugster. Read on to learn how he created Fraugster and how AI can embrace online stores. You’re a Founder of Fraugster. How did you come up with an idea for this company? After years of working in the payments industry, my Co-Founder, Chen Zamir and I experienced first-hand the challenges of fraud for e-commerce merchants.…