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Write the guides a first-time exporter reads before choosing who books the flight.

Content marketing for an air cargo agency is writing the guides, checklists and explainers that answer shipper questions about documents, handling and cut-offs. GullySales drafts them from your desk's own practice and your staff approve them.

Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What content marketing means

Content marketing is writing articles, guides and pages that answer the questions buyers search before they are ready to enquire. This makes your business visible and trusted before the first call. GullySales plans this content from the first conversation onward, choosing topics that match real search demand rather than guesses.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For air cargo agencies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The first-time exporter has questions you answer daily”

    What is an air waybill, how does a temperature declaration work, what does a cut-off mean for a late truck. Your desk answers these by phone every day. Written down once, the answers serve every reader who searches before calling.

  • “Guides prove knowledge better than claims”

    A pharma logistics manager decides whether an agent understands the cargo by reading how the agent explains it. A clear guide on packaging, documents and handover tells that reader more than a statement of experience.

  • “Content must age well”

    Rates and schedules change with each flight, but document steps and handling principles move slowly. Writing about the second kind gives a page that stays accurate, and avoids a library of articles that need correcting whenever a flight changes.

What we do

What we deliver for air cargo agencies.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Topic list from the desk

    A list of the questions your booking desk answers repeatedly, ranked by how many shippers ask them.

    Result: A written list shows each question and the page that will answer it.

  2. Cargo handling guides

    Plain guides for perishables, pharma and garments, covering packing, documents and handover to the airline.

    Result: Each guide can be handed to a new shipper before the first booking.

  3. Document checklists

    Short checklists for export documents by cargo type, in a format that prints or sends on WhatsApp.

    Result: A shipper receives one checklist instead of a long phone explanation.

  4. Seasonal explainers

    Pieces timed to the growing and export seasons of your region, written ahead of the peak.

    Result: Seasonal shippers find a relevant piece before their busy period.

  5. Expert review step

    Your DGR-trained and operations staff read each guide for accuracy before it is published.

    Result: Every guide carries sign-off from the person who knows the rule.

How the result is measured

  • Pages published
  • Organic traffic
  • Enquiries from content pages

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Posts and pieces to plan

Write the guides a first-time exporter reads.

How to book air cargo for the first time
A step list from cargo details to air waybill to cut-off, written in the order the desk asks questions.
Chargeable weight explained
A worked explanation of why volume and weight both count, using a sample carton, for the shipper surprised by the quote.
Packing perishables for an air route
A guide to packing and cold handling for flowers, fruit and fish, written with the desk's own handling notes.
Documents that travel with an export consignment
A checklist of the papers a shipper should have ready, with a note to check current rules with the customs broker.
What to do when a flight is offloaded
A plain account of how the desk rebooks and informs the shipper, drawn from your own process.

Who it is for

This is written for these air cargo agencies.

  • IATA cargo sales agents handling export and import
  • General sales agents representing airlines
  • Freight forwarders that consolidate air cargo
  • Perishable specialists for flowers, vegetables, fruit and fish
  • Pharma and healthcare cargo handlers
  • Garment and fashion express exporters
  • Electronics and e-commerce air freight agents
  • Courier-linked and express air cargo agents

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have not written down how your desk handles a booking, so the guide would copy a generic freight article.
  • Nobody can review rule-related content for accuracy, and a wrong statement on customs or dangerous goods would cost a shipper their cargo.

How it works

How the content marketing work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Agree the plan

    Topics and formats come from the content strategy and the buyer-question list. The volume goes into the written scope, agreed with you, not into a number quoted on a call.

  2. 2

    Brief and draft

    Each piece starts from its one-page brief and a short conversation with your technical person, recorded if they allow it, so the draft uses their words.

  3. 3

    Check the facts

    Your person marks the draft for accuracy and we correct it. Regulated subjects also go to your own adviser, because restrictions on claims apply to articles as much as to advertisements.

  4. 4

    Publish and distribute

    The piece goes live on your site, then out through the channels where your buyers already are.

  5. 5

    Read the enquiries and adjust

    Results are reported against the baseline recorded before work began. Topics that brought readers but no enquiries are changed or dropped. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

Do we need a blog?
Not necessarily. A set of guides on the website, each answering one shipper question, does the work. A blog format only helps if you will add to it.
How do we avoid giving wrong rule advice?
Write the general principle, say airline and regulator rules decide, and have your trained staff check every line. Where a rule changes by airline, tell the shipper to confirm with the desk.
How do we stay current when airline rules change?
Date every guide and link it to the carrier's own current page for anything that changes. Hold the guide to your desk's process, which you control. Rules differ by airline, airport and cargo type, so tell readers to confirm with their customs broker and the carrier.
What topics suit a cargo agency better than a general blog?
The ones the desk answers every day. Questions on chargeable weight, cut-offs, packing and paperwork come from real calls. A piece answering one of those carries the desk's authority and reaches the buyer at the stage where they are choosing an agent.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

Your next practical step

Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.