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How we got here.
Not a straight line. The good paths never are.
The detour that wasn't one.
Dominik studied psychology and spent years working in psychiatric care. Real work, with real people, where listening well isn't a soft skill — it's the whole job. On the side, he kept taking jobs as a writer and copywriter, because putting the right words in the right order came naturally.
It looked like a detour. It turned out to be the foundation: marketing is applied psychology. Understanding what people actually need — before they say it — is the same skill in a clinic and on a landing page. He just didn't know it yet.
The road.
Then the itch to travel won. Dominik packed up and went — and because the road doesn't pay for itself, he grew into online marketing one project at a time. He got lucky with the people around him: some of Germany's best marketing minds became his mentors.
The projects grew with him: campaigns for brands like the organic retail chain Biomarkt and Nestlé, alongside work as a project manager across wildly different industries. The pattern from psychology held: understand the human first, then build the message.
The merge.
Somewhere on that road, Dominik met Eda. She came from the other side of the same world: marketing with a focus on social media — planning and running campaigns from A to Z for all kinds of brands, designing websites, creating the visuals that make people stop scrolling.
He built the systems and wrote the words. She designed what people saw and ran what people shared. Two halves of one craft. They didn't just team up — they got married. And Eda founded KlickNerds as the logical consequence: everything both of them do, under one roof, for businesses that need all of it working together.
The AI era.
Then AI grew up — and for two people who were already obsessed with systems, bringing it aboard wasn't a pivot, it was the obvious next commit. Continuous learning, new tools, new workflows: AI became part of every layer of what we build, from content systems to chatbots to entire automated lead pipelines.
Not as the headline. As the tool. The headline is still the same one it's always been: understand people, build systems, measure everything.