Freight Broker Customer Service
Tips for brokers to gain and retain customers, Digitization of freight industry, How brokers build better relationship
Description
A freight broker is an intermediary between a shipper and a freight service provider.Freight brokers can specialize in certain types of freight such as equipment hauling on lowboys, oversize, bulk tanker, auto, or other types of freight transportation. Many shippers either underestimate the role of freight brokers or have a skeptical attitude towards their business. This misunderstanding of direct freight services is a result of not knowing how exactly brokerage services function, and how to work with them. Working with freight brokers can significantly reduce your time spent on load arrangements and carrier search.Freight brokers have pre-existing relationships with carriers, so they can often provide lower freight rates to the customers. Once you collaborate with your freight broker, you can eliminate transportation costs because of their reduce rates and have more efficient logistics processes.
The customer satisfaction is a very key and essential point in freight broker business, when brokers satisfy their customers well then they will always get repeat business and good word of mouth recommendation. Pricing forms the basis for all business decisions, and while today's shippers and carriers want strategic value, pricing structure always influences transportation decisions. Its the pricing structure that secures carriers and shippers, but it is not always the price that keeps customers. The current trends in digitization has help brokers to effectively and efficiently deliver quality service to their clients. If a broker delivers faster and with fewer performance issues than a competitor, future price adjustments may be more accepted by carriers and shippers.
What You Will Learn!
- Things freight brokers can do to attract customers
- Carriers relationship management tips for freight brokers
- Three strategies to build a freight broker book of business
- Freight brokerage best practices how to qualify new customers
- Customer satisfaction tips for freight agents
- Three tips for brokers to gain and retain cstomers
- Freight brokers sales tips for prospecting shippers customers
- Ways freight brokers companies and shippers to fulfill customer experience promises
- Digitization of the freight brokerage industry
- How can freight brokers build better carrier relationship
- Ways parade helps brokerage gain a competitive advantage
- Essential logistics key performance indicators and metric you need to track
Who Should Attend!
- Freight brokers, freight forwarders, transport operators, trucking companies, truck drivers, managers, directors, CEO, Transport consultants, students, business people, wholesalers, distributors, etc