Your Vehicle

First up, you’ll need to consider the vehicle that you’re going to use to deliver things from A to B. Remember that in the earlier stages of your career, you might be delivering everything from flat-pack furniture to food that people have ordered from their local takeaway. As such, the of vehicle you’re using will dictate the size of jobs you’re able to move up towards. A bicycle or scooter will work for food deliveries, but it’ll work less well for furniture.

Most delivery operatives start small and work their way up when it comes to their vehicle of choice. They might begin with a simple coupe or saloon car before moving on to a larger truck and then to the bigger trucks that you see on the big interstate highways. Make sure you also have the correct license to drive any new vehicle you’re purchasing in order to avoid the long arms of the law.

First Experiences

When you’re starting out as a delivery operative, you have to be a little less selective on the kinds of work that you’re prepared to do. You should accept all the jobs that come your way in order to maximize your income and set yourself on the path to earning more and more cash as a driver. In this sense, it might be worth joining an agency, some of which provide you with your own vehicle in order to get deliveries under your belt and experience that’ll earn you better and more lucrative jobs down the line.

Remember that word travels fast in this industry, and references are important at every stage in your career. With this in mind, always make sure you’re a diligent driver so that you’re able to make the most of the opportunities that are presented to you in the future. A reputation for timely deliveries and professional service will proceed you and will help you climb the ladder towards better positions sooner in your delivery career.

Going it Alone

In the modern world, you need to rely less on agencies in order to find delivery work. You’ll know this by exposing yourself to the so-called gig economy, which allows you to pick your own shifts and your own deliveries from an online database. Bust, you can also go further, ensuring that you’re able to select your own work without working via an intermediary. Find a load board online in order to select loads that have been shared by those in need of a driver. You can select the jobs that work for you – often those that suit your schedule and your locations.

Load boards are particularly useful for those drivers who are taking a long one-way trip to deliver a load across the country. Instead of having to drive back empty-handed, you can plan to collect a load and transport it back to where you tend to operate. That can help you to make more cash from a single journey, boosting your income and leaving you with more jobs at the end of each month.

Career Progression

As a driver who’s been operating for a number of years, you might even set your sights on removing yourself from the roads entirely and instead operating from an office with your own fleet of drivers. This is how you’ll earn a lot more money from doing coordination work, using your contacts and your experience to bring your income to a new level. Of course, it takes time to build a fleet – but if you one day fancy a change from the open road, this is a fantastic way to achieve that change.

To start building a fleet, you’ll, of course, want to double your vehicle number – from one to two. That means bringing on a worker, preferably someone near that start of their career, to help you with deliveries. As you start ramping up the volume of deliveries that you can perform, it’s likely that more and more of your clients will turn to you for larger and larger jobs. That’ll give you the capacity to add further drivers and vehicles to your fleet, which in turn will see you grow from a one man operation to something that’s far larger and more profitable.

Contacts and Clients

Finally, even if you choose not to go it alone in the delivery space by creating your own delivery firm, it’s still important for you to build up a contact book of clients that you can turn to in the tough times or when you don’t have many deliveries on your plate. These clients are more likely to get in touch with you for work when you’ve delivered consistently for them over a long time period – so make sure you’re always working with a handful of the same clients in order to make good impressions with them.

You shouldn’t be fearful of raising your prices, too. With the cost of fuel rising, you shouldn’t be the individual who is shouldering the extra burden – that should be on the consumer. It’s up to your clients to charge their customers extra for delivery charges so that you do not have to bear the burden of inflation in gas prices. With a solid reputation, asking for a little more money for your deliveries shouldn’t go down badly with your clients.

There you have it: the basic stages you can pass through in order to forge a successful career as a delivery operative, from purchasing your own vehicle to owning your own fleet.

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Shopify

An online commerce SaaS that will accompany you from the first steps of the project, due to its ease of use and that will adapt to all changes in the size of your business until you are a giant. It has a wide range of functionalities, it can be customized very easily and it offers a wide range of logistics, financial and technical services.

Prestashop

A software that has something else on the market and because it is free (it is free software) is among the most used in the Spanish market. 30% of digital stores in our country are set up with this platform. Of course, it requires more implementation and maintenance work than the SaaS versions.

Woocommerce

Another solution very much in line with the previous one: free, open-source, and highly recommended for projects that will have the advice of experts in the development of this type of project. It is mounted on WordPress at no cost, although you have to pay for the necessary plugins to customize the store. It is used by 28% of businesses. 

Magento

It is the platform par excellence for the largest e-commerce projects due to its great capacity to scale, whether it is projects oriented to B2C or B2B. Magento is also open source, which allows you to customize it to the maximum, but on the contrary, it has a higher cost compared to other CMS, both in its initial implementation and in its maintenance.

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Payment Gateways

Stripe

It is one of the favorite tools for managing payments in digital stores due to its cost and flexibility: it supports the main debit and credit cards, works with more than 135 currencies around the world, and adapts to new global payment methods, such as as as Alipay. 

Put me off

A tool that helps customers to defer payment for their purchases easily and in a few clicks.

Mastercard and Visa

Payment methods with Mastercard as well as Visa cards are interesting due to the consumer’s brand awareness and the solvency when it comes to processing large amounts of transactions from any device: mobile phones, laptops, etc.

Smart Lockers

Citypaq 

Citypaq is the service that Correos has developed so that stores can include the smart locker service as a delivery method. A key service in the logistics chain, by facilitating delivery in safe places located in the office or in the neighborhood community.  

Butler.io

Mayordomo is a Smart Services company that has been crowned the best Prop Tech in the world in 2020. Its Smart Point technology has converted hundreds of company buildings, institutions, and even hospitals, into Smart Buildings, connecting them with hundreds of local suppliers and all the online stores. The technology allows local businesses to minimize their logistics costs and offer discounts in addition to improving user convenience. Its deliveries are zero emissions and with Covid-protect technology.

Email Marketing

Connectif

There are more popular email marketing tools, all of which we will tell you below, but not so “ours” and so affordable. this automation tool will help you to manage the messages of your business with your customers in real-time, to create highly personalized shopping experiences, and to control the customer journey in all your sales channels. 

MailChimp

A best-seller among online business email marketing services. It always appears in the lists of the best eCommerce solutions repeatedly due to its versatility to manage email campaigns, so useful in online sales: overcoming spam filters, personalizing messages, reports of bounce rates, and spam complaints …

Hubspot

An all-in-one marketing solution that will help you design and measure all your messages online, whether they come from emails, blogs, social networks, etc. 

Jumplead

An emailing tool that differs from the rest due to its simplicity. It will help you grow with just enough money and time. 

Carts Guru

A tool that allows you to create marketing campaigns for all phases of the customer’s sales funnels: from their contact to the key attention calls for them to reconsider their purchase or the recovery of carts. And all from a multi-channel proposal.

Content Marketing

Publisuites

If you need to create content to attract customers to your online store, this platform will help you connect with specialized journalists and influencers who will help you in your content marketing strategy. It also offers SEO services to improve the organic positioning of eCommerce. 

Analytics

Google analytics

It always appears in all the pools when advice is requested on essential tools, because of their usefulness, reliability (it is Google) and because it does not involve any financial outlay. It will help you understand the traffic of your store and the interaction that users make with it, either for your commercial proposal or for your advertising actions. Since it is free, it is advisable to mount it from minute one; there are few payment tools that overshadow it. 

Market Analysis

Minderest

Keeping an eye on what the competition is doing will help you better define your marketing actions, especially if you work with prices. Minderest is the key solution to optimize this pricing strategy: it monitors for you what Amazon, eBay, Google Shopping, etc. offers. and helps you set the most accurate pricing strategy. 

SEO

Semrush

As in any digital value proposition, SEO in eCommerce is key to success. And technology like Semrush is among those preferred by online marketers for that positioning. It will help you to know the search trends of the users, the sales strategies of the competition …

Social Media

Hootsuite

It will help you manage your actions on social networks from a single place, identifying traffic to generate more appropriate actions, detecting new potential customers, and scheduling content on various networks, to reach your audience at the best time and through the most appropriate channels.

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This technology enables industrial automation and digitization in a sector that can take much advantage of advances given the complexity of its operations. We will see how IoT benefits the transport and logistics sector.

Having sensors connected in the warehouse allows us to control the characteristics of the stored products, as well as a multitude of other parameters:

• Product information. It is possible to obtain certain data in real-time, such as the weight, dimensions, and units of the product.
• Improve energy control, since it is possible to integrate control sensors and consumption analysis, both in storage facilities and in fleets. Investing in this technology reduces fuel costs, on the one hand, and electricity in the warehouse, on the other.
• It allows error detection. Connected devices allow faults to be detected at any point in the supply chain, facilitating the traceability of the product from the moment it enters the facilities until it is delivered to the destination point. This improves the prevention of occupational risks and the loss or deterioration of the stock.
• Improve time management. It is possible to control the time spent on each task and the space available in the warehouse, improving productivity.
• Strict temperature control. For certain products, temperature — and sometimes also humidity — is a critical factor. Thanks to the IoT, it is possible to monitor the conditions of the products in real-time and predict whether these products may deteriorate, or if measures must be taken.
• Greater security. Thanks to the IoT it is possible to monitor and keep track of the different products, so that it is possible to prevent thefts – or, at least, detect them quickly and efficiently.
• Once the product leaves the warehouse, the shipment tracking becomes possible. At any time, it is possible to know where each package that travels in any of the vehicles in the fleet is located. It is a value-added service for the end customer, who can check where their order is at all times.

For fleets, there are also great benefits linked to this connected technology. For example, route planning is more dynamic today than ever, since, being permanently connected, the vehicles themselves can suggest alternative routes, detect incidents on the road, delays or any event that may affect the final delivery time.

The planning optimal routes taking into account the circumstances shorten transit time and save fuel. On the other hand, it is possible to optimize the number of vehicles running and control how many we have available at any given time, how many are stopped —in maintenance, for example— and for how long… and all that information is money, in the sense that it is They optimize costs and this results in the benefit of the company.

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