Marketplace Jungle
Exploring the European Marketplace Landscape with Valerie Dichtl
January 31, 2023
After working at Amazon as a vendor manager, Valerie Dichtl, unhappy with internal pressure to constantly renegotiate deals with the brands she was working on, switched to the other side of the table and helped a German fashion brand take on marketplaces properly for the first. She has since become renowned in the German fashion industry as one of the leading experts for all things marketplaces. Founder of Marketplace Uni, Valerie teaches would-be Marketplace managers how to get their brands onto the top marketplaces in Europe. She works with sports & fashion brands to help them ensure that their business is ready for marketplaces and that all stakeholders are aligned for this new business. In this episode, you can expect to learn: - Which marketplaces are out there that you might not yet know about - How to bring profitability to the forefront of your Marketplace strategy - How to use marketplaces for overstock or end-of-line items - How to distribute Marketplace revenue to keep your team motivated, and - Where to begin with selling on marketplaces if you've never done so
After working at Amazon as a vendor manager, Valerie Dichtl, unhappy with internal pressure to constantly renegotiate deals with the brands she was working on, switched to the other side of the table and helped a German fashion brand take on marketplaces properly for the first. She has since become renowned in the German fashion industry as one of the leading experts for all things marketplaces.

Founder of Marketplace Uni, Valerie teaches would-be Marketplace managers how to get their brands onto the top marketplaces in Europe. She works with sports & fashion brands to help them ensure that their business is ready for marketplaces and that all stakeholders are aligned for this new business.

In this episode, you can expect to learn:

You can follow Valerie on LinkedIn for more of her insights here.


For an eCommerce business looking to succeed on Amazon, there are almost unlimited resources to help you.

But what about marketplaces beyond Amazon?

In this podcast, we talk to successful marketplace sellers, industry experts, marketplace insiders and more, to help you build a healthy, scalable & diversified marketplace business.

Expect to learn:

  • Which marketplaces exist beyond Amazon, around the world
  • Which marketplaces are worthwhile for your category
  • How you can expand to new marketplaces beyond Amazon
  • How to turn your Amazon business into a marketplace business 

Marketplace Jungle is brought to you by eCommeleon, your PIM for marketplaces.

Your host is Jesse Wragg, Co-Founder & Managing Director at eCommeleon.