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Considering the next years, the traditional, European e-learning sector will be challenged by several influences, starting with innovative start-ups with new online training approaches to North American providers penetrating the European Market. bit media e-solutions as one of these strong e-learning players on European ground with more than 16 years of experience therefore currently is looking for future B2C market potentials within the field of emerging markets to finally distribute their product portfolio there. As bit media e-solutions does not own any standardized tool to systemically screen foreign markets concerning their long-term market potential, this master thesis provides the company such a reusable market selection model to screen emerging B2C markets. To proof the sustainable usefulness of the developed model, the author moreover provides bit media e-solutions a ranking of the three highest attractive emerging markets at the end, initially starting with the markets Albania, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam. While the first part of the master thesis is focusing on the theoretical input for developing a market selection model, the core part is considered as the practical section, where a tailor-made model for bit media e-solutions is developed and applied. Moreover, and as an important prerequisite, potential criteria were internally defined and externally verified and weighted to reduce the subjectivity of the model. The final model consists of two stages and three steps, at end of every step inappropriate markets were knocked out. While emerging markets show high growth potential but also high risk uncertainty, the preliminary screening was executed by help of the checklist method with a focus on political and economic risks. The indept screening was carried out by using the scoring method as well as selected and weighted attractiveness, barriers and risk criteria. After this first phase the markets Indonesia, Macedonia and Vietnam showed the highest overall market potential for bit media e-solutions and therefore were visualized in a market portfolio analysis as final step. After the execution of expert interviews the market Indonesia is finally recommended as market with the highest market attractiveness, followed by Vietnam and Macedonia. The concluding chapter deals with concrete recommendations as well as a general critical reflection for bit media e-solutions as scientific base for their further business expansion strategy finally.