e-dbc Digital Business Consulting

making sense of digital

Why Choose Us

Our highly capable and experienced teams provide hands-on and tailored support to our clients in transforming their businesses into a digital and more efficient platform with measurable results.

We are the right choice for your organization if…

You prefer to focus on your core business only
You do not want to establish internal IT and Digital Marketing divisions since you lack the knowledge and experience
You want to grow your digital presence while keeping flexibility on staffing and budget allocation
You want to grow your organization and budget gradually based on your business needs and growth in the digital environment
You want to avoid common mistakes and losing money like almost all companies do when they first enter the digital space
You want to get things done fast

Approach

As an e-dbc team, we help our clients bridge the gap between what their customers demand in a digital environment and what they experience by:

Reviewing digital & offline activities, identifying opportunities for immediate and future growth,
Acting as a trusted advisor to develop a strategy and structure, and provide expert guidance to maximize results,
Providing ongoing guidance and hands-on implementation support to deliver fast and effective change,

Measurement
Analysis Assessment of all existing digital activities, information collection from the stakeholders, preparation of a gap analysis from multiple data points that will allow for an evidence-based digital strategy.
Strategy A tailor-made digital strategy that sees the forest AND the trees. Development of a clear roadmap with buy-in from key stakeholders along with a realistic timetable. Aim for tangible results with long-term impact.
Execution Hands-on, end-to-end delivery of the digital strategy. We help our clients implement the transformation plan that includes organizational structure, systems, processes, and improving competencies
Measurement Follow-up and reporting of results based on KPIs with continuous monitoring and assessments that will empower our clients to take data-driven decisions and actions.
Services

Result-oriented digital strategy development, implementation, and transformation are our main focus. We tailor our methodologies, tools, and technologies based on our clients’ priorities to include roadmaps for quick wins as well as longer-term action plans.

Web Design
    Web Services
  • Website Development
  • e-Commerce Platform
  • Landing Page Development
  • Website Maintenance
  • Hosting Management
SEO
    Digital Marketing Services
  • Digital Marketing Strategy
  • Search Engine Marketing
  • Lead Generation Processes
  • Conversion Rate Optimization
  • E-Commerce Strategies
Automotive
    Automotive Consulting
  • New Car Lead Generation
  • Used Car Locator
  • Online Classified Listing Str.
  • Certified Used Car Programs
  • Dealer Performance Analysis
Strategy
    Investment Intermediary
  • Financial Planning
  • Business Planning
  • Investor Relations
  • Urban Mobility
  • Providing Market Information
Clients & References
e-dbc Clients & referances
Team

The founders of the company and the consulting team have worked for corporates for more than 20 years. Lead various projects to successful outcomes and managed sizeable budgets during these years. After all these experiences, they share their experiences with companies that have lack of staffing, knowledge, and experiences with tailor-made consulting projects.

You can please click on the team members’ profiles to see their expertise in specific areas.

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Asim Yavuzalp
Asim Yavuzalp

Managing Partner

An economist by training, consultant by practice and entrepreneur at heart, Asim Yavuzalp is working with companies to develop their digital, investment, business and marketing strategies especially in the automotive, internet and services industries. He was the CEO of Arabam.com in Turkey, the 2nd largest used car classified platform in the market, between the years 2014-2016. He is also the Founder & CEO at ArabaBul.com, a new car lead generation marketing platform, which he started-up in October 2009. Prior to that, he was the Country Director for Turkey at PEP Consultancy, Europe's largest automotive consultancy firm, and held senior positions in the automotive industry, which he joined in 1994. He supports PEP Automotive, UK based automotive consulting firm, to develop business opportunities in Austria and neighboring countries and represents Sente Capital, an investment firm based in Chicago. Asim holds a Master of Management from Isik University, diploma on Marketing and Advertising from New York University and a BS from Istanbul University Economics faculty.
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Murat Oguz
Murat Oguz

Managing Partner

Murat Oguz, a highly capable IT professional, has been in the industry since 1990. He worked for the Turkish Football Federation. Dogus Holding Group, eforSoft and supported ArabaBul.com as IT & Web Manager and finally, since 2016 he has been working as Information Systems Consultant in e-dbc. He has worked in many different areas of the industry and can deliver different services to our clients even though each of it requires different knowledge and competencies such as web site design and development, network solutions and support services. Murat holds a BS on Business Administration from AOF and diploma on Analysis & Software from Bosporus University.
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Ersan Alkan
Ersan Alkan

Sr. Consultant - Research

Ersan Alkan, dynamic, result oriented researcher with a strong international background. Ersan has been building bridges between companies and their consumers by helping them to understand their consumers, what expect from them and how they see them. Also work with the companies to clearly define their position in the market environment and their roadmap to success. He started his career as research coordinator in the U.S. for nation-wide non-profit organization, AVID. After holding this position for 8 years, he moved back to Turkey. He worked for the market research agencies, Millward Brown and Ipsos, and played key roles in these organizations. After six years in the corporate work, He established FRAM Research and Consulting Ltd, to work with his clients exclusively to provide them tactical and strategic insights in a commercial context. Ersan has completed his undergraduate work in engineering at Istanbul Technical University, then he continued his education at University of Texas – Pan American to complete his graduate level education first Master in Information Technologies then Master in Business Administration.
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Tolga Sasik
Tolga Sasik

Sr. Consultant - Investment

Since 2001 in addition to his duties in the finance sector, he has provided Personal Development Trainings on many different subjects to more than 30.000 people from various sectors. Tolga has 4 books that were published in 2006, 2010, 2015 (Extended Edition), and 2018 which includes “Satışın Türkçesi”, “Büyük Satışlar İçin Küçük İpuçları” and “Fanatik Müşteri Yaratmanın Yolları”. Also, he periodically writes articles on many journals and websites. Tolga is also a Senior Consultant for sales channels, real estate development, foreign company partnerships and investments, developing and managing dealer/franchise, business development, sheconomy-marketing to women, customer and employee satisfaction and mentoring young entrepreneurs in different international “start-up” projects. Currently he is an executive board member of a non-profit university.
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Deniz Utku
Deniz Utku

Sr. Consultant - Traffic Acquisition

Deniz is a seasoned Digital Marketing professional with 10+ years experience, covering a career in Google, sahibinden.com, Markafoni and hundreds of client projects. Performance (conversion) based marketing, web analytics, digital business analysis and e-commerce are the main areas Deniz is experienced at; with hands-on experience on all aspects of digital marketing, especially Digital Strategy, Google Ads, Analytics and SEO.
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Ahu Gokmen
Ahu Gokmen

Sr. Consultant - Human Resources

Ahu is a seasoned development consultant and coach, equipped with almost 25 years of knowledge and experience on human behavior by education and profession, whose areas of expertise include individual and team coaching, talent and leadership assessment and development and change. She started her professional career in Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest electric utility companies in the U.S. with over 100 years of presence, 13,000 employees. She worked as an internal consultant providing HR/OD-related consulting to business unit. After returning to Turkey, she has held managerial positions in automotive (Borusan Otomotiv) and telecommunications (Turkcell Superonline) industries where she was responsible for strategy, organizational structure and design; systems design/improvement, management, implementation of all the HR processes, as well as the overall management of the HR function for more than 6 years. Ahu has transitioned back to consulting, particularly focusing on individual and organization development, where she has been participating/leading various HR projects working in multi-cultural and multi-national environments since 1998. Ahu graduated from Bosporus University, Department of Psychological Counselling and Guidance in 1997, pursued her Post Graduate studies in Industrial & Organizational Psychology (M.Sc.) at California State University, USA. Trained by the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in Co-active coaching, Ahu is currently working with individuals, leaders, and teams for personal/professional change and development.
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Erhun Batu Koprulu
Erhun B. Koprulu

Sr. Consultant - Corporate Identity & Design

Erhun Batug Koprulu is a creative thinker who acts as a problem solver in a vast range of projects. He believes that in addition to creatively envisioning an aesthetic product, a crucial challenge is to realize and successfully implement human needs in the design process. In his professional career of over 25 years, he contributed to multi-disciplinary projects around the world, involving diverse teams, materials, production processes and business strategies. His success of managing to keep the balance of “function and form” while implementing the requests and needs of the customer throughout these design processes earned him trust and respect. he increasingly focused his professional efforts to small sized enterprises and corporate organisations. Currently he is running his own business and consulting by integrating all his experience of human-centered design approach, technology, research and business. He aims to provide a top-notch quality of life service to customer needs, with the support of skilled teams and ateliers. Batug’s customers have frequently praised his ability to realize and articulate their needs, and lead the project processes from sketches to production.

Vienna Office

Vienna, Austria

Asim Yavuzalp

+43 (0) 676 631 98 60

Istanbul Office

Istanbul, Turkey

Murat Oguz

+90 (0) 532 377 39 33