Category: Interviews

What do you see when you hear wellness travel? There is you, sitting in a hot tub with a view of the mountains, sipping champagne? Roland Fricke and his business partners saw pampering treatments as an online business idea and turned Beauty24.de into a leading website with wellness travel deals for Germans.   You have made an impressive way from media and communication scholar to Internet entrepreneur. How did it happen? What…

In e-commerce, finding the right niche at the right time is the key. A decade ago, selling eyewear online in Germany was no man’s land and MisterSpex quickly spotted this opportunity. Mirko Caspar, Managing Director at MisterSpex, shares how omnichannel efforts helped the company grow to have 3M customers in ten European countries.   You work as the Managing Director at Mister Spex, a Berlin-based company running online shops with eyewear.…

Christoph von Bülow, COO of HolidayPirates, tells how social media done right turned a university dorm room blog with travel deals into an international brand with 10M dedicated Facebook followers, 200+ employees and offices in Europe and North America. You are the Chief Operating Officer at HolidayPirates Group, one of the fastest growing Online Travel companies in Europe. What does your job entail? How does it affect people? Christoph von…

“The consumer pressure for more convenience is driving the race to reduce delivery lead times. (…) If everyone continues to want to drive in the ‘fast lane’, this will eventually lead to a traffic jam. And 2018 is predicted to be a particularly acute jam,” says Darko Atijas from Neopost Shipping. In this interview before his talk at the E-commerce Berlin Expo, he shares spot-on remarks on the current state…

What is bad for your app or online shop? According to Tanja Borzel from the HolidayPirates Group, when the journey of your customer in it becomes more of an odyssey than a straightforward go-get-it. In this interview, Tanja shares spot-on insights on the importance of the right Design, User Interface and User Experience for your business – whether big or small. A must-read for anyone thinking these three are “something…

As discovered in a recent study by Addressy, almost 20% of failed deliveries are due to inaccurate delivery address details provided by customers. In this interview, Chris Boaz, Head of Marketing at Addressy, explains how keeping your data clean not only solves this issue, but also opens up new possibilities for your business. To find out more, you definitely won’t want to miss his upcoming talk at this year’s E-Commerce…

Since 2000, the price comparison idealo made an impressive way from a startup to an unrivalled platform with unique features extending beyond the mere ‘we’ll compare prices for you’. At the moment, idealo covers pretty much the entire German eCommerce market and knows all its ins and outs. Read this interview with Erik Meierhoff, Head of B2B Business at idealo, and you won’t want to miss his upcoming talk at…

In 2018, CS-Cart is paving its way in the self-owned ecommerce software in Europe to prove these words. Nonetheless, in this interview Fotis Kourmadas shares far more than the company’s growth plans. There are first-hand business development tips for the SMBs, some interesting insights about the Greek ecommerce, and a bunch of spot-on comments about other European markets. Paulina, E-Commerce Capitals: You’re the Chief Marketing Officer of CS-Cart, a platform…

The Ecommerce market is booming, with sales worldwide predicted to amount 4.48 trillion US dollars by 2021. As an Ecommerce business, you surely want to ride this wave too! In this interview, Sven Gruhl from PayU paints a complete landscape of online payments both in Europe and worldwide for you to consider before selling internationally or planning your future expansions. If you want even more details, you cannot miss his…

Air Berlin’s insolvency raised a massive number of industry and customer eyebrows in 2017, being a professional apocalypse for the airlines’ employees. Yet, Ian Pascal Volz and his team managed to turn the tide in 72 hours. In this interview with Volz, you will learn how the values of true leadership and team spirit fuelled the viral success of their ‘#HireUsAsATeam’ campaign – and how they secured a professional happy…

That’s not an easy thing to achieve, is it? Well, Jonathan Anguelov and the other co-founders of Aircall have made it easy for you. As a sneak-peak to his talk during the E-Commerce Berlin Expo 2018, we’re releasing an interview where Jonathan explains how Aircall products can make your customers happier and your business more profitable. Paulina, E-Commerce Capitals: You are the co-founder and COO of Aircall, a cloud-based phone…

If you are still looking for your niche in eCommerce, food is the answer. Max Wittrock and his two other mymuesli Co-Founders Hubertus Bessau and Philipp Kraiss are a walking proof that a successful eCommerce business idea might as well come from as close as your breakfast bowl. In this interview, Max Wittrock assures that food market is big enough to accommodate everyone. Paulina, Ecommerce Capitals: Mymuesli is one of…