How Freight Brokers Make More Money with the 80/20 Rule

So what is the 80/20 rule and how can freight brokers and freight agents leverage it to significantly increase their sales?

The 80/20 rule, also known as Pareto Principle, was originated by Vilfredo Pareto in 1906 and it states that 80% of the output comes from 20% of the input.

Uhhh ok, so what does that mean?

My easy to understand translation is simple, it means that 20% of your activities yield you 80% of your results.  With that in mind, it can also be used when analyzing your customer base and revenue.  It is not uncommon for a 80% of a freight brokers sales to come from 20% of his customers.

The “80/20 rule” can be very valuable strategy to help freight brokers and agents to significantly grow both sales and profits.  I started applying the 80/20 rule to my businesses back in the late 90’s and since then have seen incredible results.

But how?

Step 1 – The key is to first identify the 20% of activities that drive 80% of your results and then to spend more time doing those activities.  In other words, what are the primary income producing activities that drive revenue for your business?

Step 2- Another way to leverage the 80/20 rule is to identify the primary characteristic of the top 20% of your customers.  These customers will typically account for about 80% of your revenue.  Once identified, focus the majority of sales and marketing efforts around landing more customers like them.

This approach is a key component I used to grow my freight business from startup to over $45 million a year in sales in under 10 years.

The fact is, not all business related activities are created equal.  Some are harder, easier, higher value, lower value, critical, non critical, etc and as a freight broker and business owner it is easy to find yourself being “busy.”

The big question is, are you “busy” doing and investing your time and resources into things that are going to give you a good return on your investment.  This is where the 80/20 rule can be most effective for freight brokers and freight agents!

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Cheers,

Dennis Brown
Owner, www.FreightBrokerBootcamp.com
Freight Broker Trainer / 6X Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Freight Broker

DENNIS BROWN
Owner, CEO

Dennis Brown the freight broker, is the owner of FreightBrokerBootCamp.com and former CEO of Logistic Dynamics, Inc. (LDi) one of North Americas fastest growing logistics providers. Dennis has over 25 years of hands on experience as an entrepreneur and is widely regarded as an expert in logistics, freight brokerage, business growth strategies and B2B sales and marketing. Dennis became a freight broker in 2003, as a one man operations with NO industry experience . He went on to do over $200 million as a freight broker, eventually selling the freight brokerage to spend more time with his family. Dennis Brown has trained over 10,000 students, in 16 different countries, how to become a freight broker or freight agent. Many of his students have went on to build highly successful and highly profitable freight broker businesses.

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