İşbank and WORLDEF Partner to Support Exporters

WORLDEF BUSINESS SCHOOL (WBS) has entered into a new partnership with Türkiye İş Bankası. Under the protocol signed by the bank with the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM), exporters will receive a 50% discount on WBS's online e-commerce and e-export training package WORLDEF Prime. Türkiye İş Bankası announced a "Joint Effort Support Package" related to the normalization process during the pandemic. Under the package, the bank stated it would provide loans covering all types of working capital needs for SMEs. Additionally, support will be provided such as wage support, rent support, special credit interest rates for the urban passenger transport sector and pharmacists. The package, which also offers digital transformation loans to exporters and farmers, includes cooperation with WORLDEF, which provides online training services. Accordingly, the "WORLDEF Prime" membership offered by WORLDEF will be available at a 50% discount. In a statement from the bank on the matter: "By cooperating with WORLDEF, we will provide our customers with a 50% discount on a 1-year WORLDEF Prime membership offering online training services in e-export, e-commerce and digital marketing. Additionally, WORLDEF Prime members can easily and securely connect online stores such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy and others to the system using ShipEntegra software when conducting e-exports. They can manage all orders from different platforms from a single location at no cost."

Ömer Nart: "With WORLDEF Prime, we are opening the path to easy e-export"

WORLDEF Chair Ömer Nart pointed to the importance of the cooperation with the bank for exporters. Stating that they are opening the path to easy e-export for those wanting to export through e-commerce, Nart said, "Our cooperation with Türkiye İş Bankası will provide a roadmap to companies wanting to start e-export. Together with other support under the package, they will be able to export or conduct e-export more easily. Our cooperation will have a significant contribution to companies in the fields of e-export, e-commerce and digital marketing." Nart continued his remarks as follows: "During extraordinary crises like the pandemic, one of the most practical ways to overcome the contraction in the domestic market is e-export. Companies with cross-border e-commerce opportunities come out of such crisis scenarios with less damage. Our exporting companies can emerge even stronger from this crisis with swift reflexes. E-export is one of these reflexes. E-export, one of the new generation commercial methods, offers great opportunities for companies of all sizes. Our cooperation with İş Bankası is bringing these opportunities to companies' doorstep."

Turkey's first MEB-approved e-commerce and e-export school

WORLDEF BUSINESS SCHOOL (WBS), Turkey's first e-commerce and e-export school approved by the Ministry of National Education (MEB), primarily conducts training partnerships with institutions such as exporters' associations, chambers of industry and commerce, and development agencies in Turkey. At WBS, which includes e-export specialists, online and classroom training is offered at basic, intermediate and advanced levels of expertise in e-commerce and e-export. To date, WBS has provided e-export training to approximately 6,000 participants. Created with the contribution of expert trainers in the field, the e-commerce and e-export training and networking platform WORLDEF Prime offers exclusive services on many topics ranging from web seminars to e-export software solutions. Unlike traditional e-commerce programs, WORLDEF Prime is designed to meet all the needs of individuals and organizations wanting to become e-export entrepreneurs, and is structured in accordance with the regional e-commerce and e-export development objectives of exporters' associations, chambers of commerce and industry, universities and development agencies. In this context, the aim is to develop qualified workforce in the field of e-commerce and e-export that Turkey needs.