An Investigation on Determining The Most Frequently Used Methods of Finding Clients in Export Cover Image

İhracatta En Çok Kullanılan Müşteri Bulma Yöntemlerinin Belirlenmesi Üzerine Bir Araştırma
An Investigation on Determining The Most Frequently Used Methods of Finding Clients in Export

Author(s): İsmail Metin, H. Handan Öztemiz
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, International relations/trade, Marketing / Advertising
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Client finding methods in export; Global marketing; Foreign trade;

Summary/Abstract: Companies use various methods to export. With this article, the most frequently preferred method of finding customers in the global market by the companies who want to export was investigated. A questionnaire was applied on SMEs in İzmir by using AHP method in the analysis. Consequently, it was found that the most frequently used methods of finding customers are trade fairs (%29,2), search engines including Google Adwords (%28,2), business men incorporations (%15) and e-market places (%14,5). In choosing these methods, 10 criteria including profitability, productivity, time, cost, effort, easiness, experience, trust, feedback speed and availability were considered. For these techniques, it was concluded that the criteria that SMEs give most importance to our safety of the technique (%32,5); cost of the technique (%21,6); and profitability (17,4). With the help of these results, it is aimed to create awareness about strategies of companies for finding customers in the international market.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 1014-1028
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Turkish