Investigating the effect of the internet marketing on the growth of the exports market in Iran (Case study: Dried fruit exporters)

Abstract In recent years, for companies of different industries, The internet and Internet marketing has become a way of earning income, interacting with the customers and shareholders, providing products and services, and electronic sale. The current research is aimed at studying the effects of the performance of Internet marketing on growth of export markets. In terms of purpose, this research is an applied one and in terms of data collection method, it is a descriptive study of correlation type. The research population consists of the marketing experts and marketing and sale managers of the Iranian dried fruit export companies. After the initial confirmation of reliability and validity of the questionnaire, it was distributed among 94 experts. First, the respondents and questions of the questionnaire were analyzed by SPSS software. Then, the hypotheses were studies by structural equation techniques, Smart Pls, and using T-value test, path coefficient, and correlation coefficient. The results show that the capability of Internet marketing has a significant and positive effect on growth of export market. Also, other research hypotheses were approved with the probability of 95 percent. Keywords: Internet Marketing, Export Market Growth, Availability of Export Information, Business Network Relationships, Dried Fruit Exporters