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Work backwards from the rate contract season, not from a content plan.

Digital marketing for a transporter has two jobs that barely touch: paperwork and follow-up for plants, and lane pages and listings for traders. GullySales builds the plan around the months before rate contracts are renewed, fixes the capability profile first, and reports on lanes and loads.

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

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What digital marketing means

Digital marketing is the combined work of search, social media, advertising and website channels running together rather than as separate projects with separate people. GullySales runs these as one connected system so a change in one channel, such as a new offer, is reflected everywhere at once.

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Sales and marketing for freight and transport companies, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For freight and transport companies

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

  • “Most transporters buy a website and stop there”

    The site was never the problem. The rate quoted on the phone and never chased is where the account went.

  • “The financial year sets the whole calendar”

    Rate contracts are renewed around April, so the introduction, the profile and the trial load have to happen in the months before it.

  • “For a plant, the paperwork is the marketing”

    A vendor registration answered in two days and a profile in the format they expect do more than any campaign you could run.

What we do

What we deliver for freight and transport companies.

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

  1. A plan split between plants and traders

    Two programmes with their own work: documents, profiles and outreach for panel business, lane pages and listings for direct trade.

    Result: Neither side is served with the other's tools.

  2. The capability profile and vendor kit built first

    Lanes, vehicle counts, permits, insurance, claims process and references gathered into one set before anything else is started.

    Result: You can answer procurement the week they ask.

  3. A calendar counted back from contract renewals

    Outreach, trial-load offers and follow-up scheduled in the months before rate contracts are signed, rather than after they are.

    Result: You are on the panel before the rates are fixed.

  4. Lane pages and directory listings for direct trade

    Route pages, the Google listing and the transport directories completed together, so a trader searching finds a real company.

    Result: Traders stop reaching you through a broker.

  5. A quotation follow-up routine behind everything

    The rate register and the follow-up dates put in place before any spend, because enquiries into an unanswered desk are wasted.

    Result: New enquiries meet somebody who chases them.

  6. Reporting on lanes and loads

    Rate enquiries by source and lane, quotes sent and won, new shippers added and empty return trips, against the baseline recorded when work starts.

    Result: The spend is judged on loads moved.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries across channels
  • Cost per enquiry overall
  • Channel mix by contribution

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

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Where to start for a transporter

Build the vendor file a plant asks for, then list your lanes for traders.

A vendor and capability kit
Collect the GST certificate, PAN, insurance, fleet list, driver details and claims record into one folder. Send it to a plant's logistics team before they ask, and record who has it.
A quote and rate tracker
Log every quote with the lane, the vehicle type, the rate offered and the date. Call back the shipper after a few days, and note the rate that won when you lost.
Lane pages
Write one page for each lane you run often, such as the city pair, the vehicle types and the transit pattern. Record the calls and form fills by page.
Return load list
List the lanes where your trucks come back empty, and call shippers and brokers who send goods the other way. Record each load found and the vehicle used.
Directory and Maps listings
Keep your IndiaMART, truck-booking and Google listings the same on address, fleet and phone. Ask which listing each caller used.
What to leave until later
A large brand website and social posts. Rate contracts are decided on the vendor file, so spend the time on the file and the quote follow-up.

Who it is for

This is written for these freight and transport companies.

  • Full truck load fleet owners
  • Part truck load and groupage operators
  • Transport brokers and freight agents
  • Container and trailer transport companies
  • Temperature-controlled and reefer transport
  • Tanker operators for liquids and chemicals
  • Heavy haulage and project cargo movers
  • Staff bus and employee transport operators
  • Freight forwarders handling road, rail and port movements

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no record of which lanes and customers earn the most, so there is nothing to work backwards from.
  • Your rate contract season is months away and the fleet is full, so extra enquiries would be turned down.

How it works

How the digital 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 one aim

    We settle what the campaign must achieve, such as enquiries for a launch or footfall for an event, and the date it must be live.

  2. 2

    Check what is ready

    We list the channels you already run, who runs them, and what each can produce in the time available. Anything that cannot be done properly is left out.

  3. 3

    Write the idea and the message sheet

    We draft the one-sentence idea, test it against each planned format, and fix the wording that all channels will copy.

  4. 4

    Brief every channel from the same sheet

    Your agency, freelancer or in-house person receives the message sheet and calendar. Their work is checked against the sheet before it goes out.

  5. 5

    Run on the shared calendar

    Channels go live together. If the offer changes, every channel is changed on the same day from the same sheet.

  6. 6

    Measure as one campaign

    Enquiries and orders are read against the baseline. The reporting schedule is agreed in writing with the scope.

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.

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Where should a fleet owner start?
With the capability profile and the rate register, because neither costs anything in media. Most transport businesses lose more to unchased quotations than to being invisible. Lane pages come after that.
How is the fee worked out?
Once we have read your brief and spoken to you, it is written down before anything starts, separating our time from media spend and from production costs such as photographing the fleet. The term is agreed in writing, and renewsal is argued on the monthly loads.
Do shippers ask for tracking, and should we advertise it?
Many plants ask whether you can show where a load is and keep a record of claims. If you can, state it plainly, with what the shipper receives. If you cannot yet, do not advertise it, and note which shippers asked.
How should a transporter use WhatsApp with customers?
Keep one number for quotes and load updates, with a short saved reply for lane, vehicle and rate. Message only shippers who agreed. Record each quote and the answer, and keep customers' documents out of group chats with strangers.
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.

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