Where are the best places to find courier services for you?

Imagine if you can come across a dozen or so businesses in your area which require regular, on-time deliveries, well you definitely have a successful courier business for you! Opposite to what most amateurs believe, that the money is in rush deliveries or same day deliveries, offering on-time, scheduled deliveries to some of your repeated customers is where the success and money is.

For instance, local companies may demand you to pick their mail at the post office once a week or florists or pharmacists would like you to make home deliveries of flowers and prescriptions to their repeated clients daily. Architects need to get plans to their customers daily or attorneys need to deliver their legal documents daily. You can charge them on an hourly basis, because it is something they cannot afford to do on their own.

These are some of the wonderful customers who want to give you work and money on a daily basis. They are waiting to call you because they need to get their couriers and items delivered on a regular basis. However, when you explain that you want to earn as a self-employed trucker or fleet owner, then the only question which comes up is where you I sign up?  Well, there are a number of platforms that give you the opportunity to work as a courier. It is a great job opportunity that helps you get paid around $35 to $50 an hour to manage deliveries. Also, the pandemic has forced a lot of businesses to lay off workers and outsource delivery services.

The most effective way to find customers for your delivery service is to register at load boards. There are some free load boards such as Shiply. The platform gives you the luxury to find loads as per your preference and need without any subscription fee or monthly charges. You can bid on the loads you want and work as per your convenient route, region or area. It gives you flexible hours to work and earn a great income. So bid for as many loads you want to enhance your earnings and make a healthy customer base.  

Another great way to find new customers for your courier service is to make rounds of local business and to alert them what you can do for them. Take along your business card and custom notepads to make them familiar with your name.

Networking is also a remarkable way to meet prospective clients. Join your local association and other organizations to meet shippers and other truckers and tell them about your work and seek new job opportunities as well as referrals.

Once you have started with your venture, remember every happy customer is a source of recommendation for future clients. Word of mouth referrals are extremely powerful and work better than Yellow pages and newspaper ad. It may be slow in the beginning but once opportunities start to pour on, you will gather speed and more and more clients.