Freight Broker Commission Percentage
What commission percentage do freight brokers get paid? There’s a bunch of variables that go into answering this question, so let’s take a look at a few of the common freight broker jobs and how much commission they earn.
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How Do Freight Brokers Make Money?
How do freight brokers make money? There are a lot of different ways to generate income as a freight broker. There are also a lot of different approaches and strategies, and each has its pros and cons. In this blog we’ll be answering the most important question of all, how do freight brokers actually get paid?
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Why Some Freight Brokers Fail at Marketing
Marketing? Wait, I thought I was just supposed to move freight. No one told me anything about having to learn marketing! When it comes to brokering freight, you need to remember that you are running a business operation and with that comes the need to properly market yourself. We recently had the pleasure to sit down with Blythe Brumleve from Digital Dispatch and talk all about marketing for freight brokers on Episode 103 of the Freight 360 Podcast. In this quick read, we’re going to look at some highlights of marketing tactics that freight brokers should consider.
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Good Freight Brokers and Good Freight Brokerage Leaders Are Different
If you’ve ever worked in a freight brokerage that promotes from within, you’ve probably seen a top broker that gets promoted because he/she was putting up stellar numbers. They were one of the top producers, so they got promoted to management in an attempt to created duplicates of themselves. This isn’t always the best way lead. Being a good freight broker doesn’t mean you will be a good leader in the freight brokerage world. Let’s take a look at a few areas that leaders must focus on in order to succeed in leadership.
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How to Market Yourself as a Freight Broker
Being a freight broker involves more than just acquiring customers and coordinating their loads with available carrier capacity. It also involves running or representing your company or brand. Marketing can be an often overlooked area in the freight brokering world. When done right, it can help your brokerage leaps and bounds. If you ignore marketing, or even do it poorly (which can be worse than doing nothing), it can hurt you. Let’s look at some simple things you can do to market your brokerage.
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Getting Capacity in A Tight Market
We’ve all felt the tightening market the past few weeks. Capacity seems tight and some brokers even claim that there are no trucks available in certain cities. We recently did an episode on Freight 360 that addressed the capacity topic, and I wanted to tackle some tips on how to get the capacity you need when the market gets tight.
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3 Tips on Prospecting with a Purpose
Prospecting new business! It’s often a dreaded task for freight brokers that can lead to failure if not done effectively. Episode 77 of Freight 360 takes a deep dive into how to prospect with a purpose, but here is a quick read on 3 tips to use to be more effective when growing your book of business.
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Freight Broker Insurance: Essential Policies for Freight Brokers
Discover the necessary insurance policies for freight brokers and how they can protect your business. Get Insights from industry experts on Freight Broker Insurance.
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Cash Flow vs Factoring
If you are a licensed freight broker, you already know that you need to manage the flow of money from your customers to you, and ultimately to your carriers. This process is called cash flow, and it’s one of the main reasons new freight brokers fail. If you are a freight agent or an employee for a brokerage, you likely don’t have to even think about this too much. Regardless, let’s look at some basics of cash flowing a brokerage and how factoring comes into play.
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3 Tips to Handling Objections for Freight Brokers
When you are prospecting as a freight broker, it’s inevitable that you will run into objections along the way. A good broker can understand what the objections really mean and respond appropriately to the prospect to keep the conversation progressing in the right direction. Let’s take a quick look at what objections are, some common objections, and how to overcome them.
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5 Ways to Grow Your Book of Business
We’ve compiled a quick list of 5 ways to grow your book of business this year as a Freight Broker.
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Flatbed Trailer Types
Flatbed loads are some of the most common loads that freight brokers deal with. This equipment type enables larger freight to be loaded without the limitations of trailer side walls and ceilings. We should have technically titled this post “Open Deck Trailer Types” since that would really be what we are looking at here, but the term “flatbed” is the most common term for these trailers in the freight broker community.
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