Marketing Built for Logistics & Freight
Websites and demand programmes for freight brokers, 3PLs, warehousing and last-mile operators — built for lane coverage, carrier onboarding, EDI questions and a bid cycle that comes round once a year.
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Logistics & Freight
Typical client results
Performance trend
CompoundingThe problems that keep coming up
Four things we hear on almost every first call in this sector. If two or more sound familiar, the fix is usually structural rather than a bigger budget.
A shipper rebuilds its routing guide once a year, and the invitation list is settled well before the RFP is published in Coupa or Emerge. Miss that window and the honest answer is that you wait, living on mini-bids and spot freight until the next cycle. The work that gets you onto the list happens far earlier, when nobody feels any urgency about it.
Capacity is bought, not summoned. A dispatcher deciding whether to cover your load checks your credit score, your days-to-pay and what other carriers say about getting paid. A carrier page with no pay terms, no quick-pay option and no setup link quietly sends that dispatcher to a competitor, and you discover it only when a load goes uncovered on a Friday.
Identity fraud has reshaped how this industry buys. Shippers now ask who physically moved the freight; carriers check whether the broker emailing them matches the authority on the paperwork. Both arrive at your website hunting for proof — legal name, MC and DOT numbers, a real physical address, the same phone number as your setup packet. A brand-first site with none of that now reads as a warning sign.
The commercial conversation goes well until the shipper's IT lead asks which transaction sets you support. 204, 214, 210, 990, and an 856 once a warehouse is in scope. If answering that requires scheduling a call, the deal parks for weeks. Firms that publish their integration capability plainly spend those weeks closing instead of chasing an internal answer.
A supply chain manager sourcing warehousing already has numbers in mind: square footage, dock doors, clear height, racking type, temperature control, whether the site is bonded or sits in a foreign trade zone, whether it holds food-grade or C-TPAT status. In a border market, cross-dock and transloading capacity is the whole question. Most 3PL sites offer a photograph of a forklift and a contact form.
A soft freight market and a capacity crunch are two different businesses. In one you are fighting for the shipper while rates are cut underneath you; in the other the freight is already sold and you are fighting for trucks. A site built entirely around one of those becomes dead weight when the cycle turns, which it does without warning and never on schedule.
How We Fix It for Logistics & Freight
Four moves, in this order. The sequence matters more than any individual tactic.
You Own Every Account
The site, the domain, the ad accounts, the tracking numbers and every record they hold are registered to your company from day one. Your customer and carrier data stays in systems you control, which matters more here than in most sectors.
We Build Both Sides of the Market
Across sixteen years and 3,000-plus businesses we have built the shipper-facing pitch and the carrier-facing one, often for the same firm. They want different pages, different proof and completely different follow-up, and treating them as one audience is why most freight sites underperform.
We Write to Your TMS
McLeod PowerBroker, Tai, Turvo, MercuryGate or Extensiv — we integrate where an API exists and design a clean handoff where it does not. Nobody on your desk should re-key a quote that already arrived as structured data.
Published Pricing, 30-Day Terms
Our starting price is published, terms are thirty days and there is no long lock-in. A business whose margins swing with the freight cycle should not be tied into a flat multi-year commitment agreed at the top of a market.
Services That Work for Logistics & Freight
The channel mix we usually recommend in this vertical.
Everything a logistics & freight business needs, under one team
Website solutions
- Lane pages stating real density — origin and destination markets, equipment type, weekly capacity and transit — instead of a map captioned nationwide coverage
- A verification panel carrying legal name, MC and DOT numbers, BMC-84 bond, cargo and contingent liability limits and trade association membership, so both sides of the market can confirm you on your own page
- Facility pages with the specifications buyers actually filter on: square footage, dock doors, clear height, racking, temperature control, FTZ or bonded status and food-grade certification
- A carrier section covering setup, pay terms, quick pay, factoring and notice-of-assignment instructions, linked straight to your Highway or MyCarrierPackets onboarding
- An integration page written for the shipper's IT lead — EDI 204, 214, 210, 990 and 856, API documentation and the platforms you already exchange data with
- Quote intake built from a bill of lading: origin and destination ZIPs, commodity, freight class, weight, dimensions, accessorials and frequency
Lead generation
- Bid-cycle outreach timed to contract renewal, so the conversation opens long before the RFP is published rather than the week it lands
- Capability statements built for procurement — NAICS codes, DUNS and CAGE where federal freight is in scope, insurance limits and references in the format the buyer asks for
- Account-based targeting across the real committee: transportation manager, supply chain director, plant logistics and the finance approver who signs off credit terms
- Mini-bid and spot capacity pages for the lanes where you are holding empty backhaul and need volume now
- A separate carrier acquisition funnel, because covering freight is a demand generation problem with its own budget and its own audience
- Call and form routing split by service line, so brokerage, warehousing, drayage and final mile never land in the same pipeline
Marketing
- Search coverage for what a logistics buyer genuinely types: bonded warehouse space, cross-border drayage, reefer capacity on a named lane, fulfilment near a specific port or crossing
- Market commentary a shipper will actually subscribe to — capacity conditions, rate direction, customs and tariff changes on the lanes you run
- Generative engine optimisation, since a supply chain manager asking an assistant to shortlist 3PLs in Texas is read a handful of names and given nothing to click
- Retargeting weighted to the capability and facility pages, because a buying committee of six people visits separately across a long evaluation
- Email programmes paced to a twelve-month cycle rather than a fortnight, so you are still in front of the buyer when the bid finally opens
Social media
- LinkedIn as the shipper channel, with carrier sales and account teams posting under their own names rather than the company page alone
- Facebook groups and driver-facing channels for capacity, where dispatchers and owner-operators actually spend the working day
- Dock, yard and warehouse footage that proves the operation exists at the scale your proposal claims
- Profile and reputation handling on Google and the carrier-facing boards where your payment record gets discussed whether you take part or not
CRM & GoHighLevel
- GoHighLevel pipelines shaped to the freight cycle: prospect, credit approved, bid submitted, awarded, routing guide position held
- A separate carrier onboarding pipeline tracking authority, insurance certificate, W-9 and notice of assignment
- Instant acknowledgement on every quote request, with after-hours routing to the on-call rep, because tenders do not respect office hours
- Account tagging by lane and commodity, so a standing weekly load stops being logged as a fresh lead every Monday
- Missed-call text-back on the capacity line, which rings hardest exactly when the market is tightest
Automation
- Carrier onboarding sequences that collect the packet, W-9, insurance certificate and authority check before a load is ever tendered
- Bid calendar triggers that surface an account a full quarter ahead of its contract renewal
- Quote follow-up paced to the freight type — hours for a spot truckload, a long sequence for a dedicated lane award
- Tender acceptance, appointment and tracking notifications pushed from the TMS, so customer service stops fielding where-is-my-load calls
- Credit application routing, with approval status visible to the rep before pricing is discussed
- Post-award onboarding: SOP handoff, contact list, escalation path and a scheduled first review
E-commerce
- Instant LTL rating with card payment for small shippers, priced from your own carrier agreements rather than a public tariff
- Bill of lading generation and label printing at the point of booking
- Prepaid pallet storage and fulfilment plans billed monthly through Stripe
- A separate path for contract accounts invoiced on terms, so a credit customer never hits a card form
Features this sector actually needs
Lane Pages That State Volume
Each lane you genuinely run gets origin and destination markets, equipment, weekly capacity and transit time. A shipper is never sourcing freight in general — they are sourcing one lane, and a coverage map answers nothing they asked.
Carrier Setup That Finishes Itself
Authority check, insurance certificate, W-9 and notice of assignment collected in one flow and handed to Highway or MyCarrierPackets, so a new carrier is ready to cover before anyone in carrier sales opens an email.
Bill of Lading Quote Intake
Commodity, freight class, weight, dimensions, accessorials, pickup and delivery windows captured on the page, so the desk prices from a complete record instead of phoning back for the pallet count.
Facility Spec Sheets
Every building published with square footage, dock doors, clear height, racking, temperature control, FTZ or bonded status and certifications, in the format a supply chain manager is comparing three sites in.
An Integration Page for the IT Lead
Supported EDI transaction sets, API documentation, sample payloads and the systems you already connect to, published so the technical gate is cleared before it becomes a scheduled meeting.
Verification Panel Against Fraud
Legal name, MC and DOT numbers, bond, insurance limits and the physical address, presented so a carrier or shipper can match your website to your paperwork in seconds. In a market shaped by double brokering, that is a sales asset.
Bid Response Library
Capability statement, insurance certificate, NAICS codes, safety record and reference structure kept current in one place, so an RFP response is assembled rather than rewritten under deadline.
Shipment Visibility Handoff
Customer login that reads status from your TMS or visibility platform, turning where-is-my-load calls into a page the shipper checks themselves at six in the morning.
The systems this sector already runs on. We wire the site into them rather than asking you to change how the business works.
- McLeod PowerBroker
- Tai TMS
- Turvo
- MercuryGate
- Revenova TMS
- Truckstop.com
- Highway
- MyCarrierPackets
- Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager
- project44
Services for Logistics & Freight — Starting From $200
Starting prices are based on basic project requirements. Final pricing depends on scope, features, integrations, number of pages, functionality and specific business requirements.
Any question in your mind?
The questions we get asked most, answered without the sales gloss. If yours is not here, ask us directly — you will get a straight answer either way.
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Websites and demand programmes for freight brokers, 3PLs, warehousing and last-mile operators — built for lane coverage, carrier onboarding, EDI questions and a bid cycle that comes round once a year.