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How to Start a Freight Brokerage Business

How to Start a Freight Brokerage BusinessAuthor: Entrepreneur Press
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 505909

Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: 1
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 1

ISBN: 1932156143
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.324
EAN: 9781932156140
ASIN: 1932156143

Publication Date: January 2004
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Product Description
A freight brokerage business is simple to start. You don’t need any specialized education or previous knowledge of the shipping industry. And you can run your business out of your home. This information-packed six-CD set tell you everything you need to know to plan, start and run a successful freight brokerage business including:

An overview of the freight industry and the role freight brokers play, with answers to commonly asked questions.

Proven tips and advice for finding reliable carriers, successfully pricing your services, ensuring repeat business, hiring and training your staff, and managing your finances.

Step-by-step instructions for creating marketing and business plans, obtaining financing, promoting your business, keeping records, and much more.

Free Ultimate Financial Forecaster software for easily creating P&Ls, cash flow statements and balance sheets.

Printable charts, checklists, work sheets and sample forms.

Plus a special bonus CD featuring inspirational and informative audio profiles of successful entrepreneurs and American business pioneers from the renowned "Dream Warriors" radio series.

For more than 25 years, Entrepreneur magazine’s Start-Up Guides have helped thousands of entrepreneurs start and run their own successful businesses. Now these acclaimed guides are available in an audio format--perfect for busy entrepreneurs who want and need information on the go. Don’t wait another minute. Pick up this guide and start on the path to entrepreneurial success today!

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars Excellent Information for a reasonable price   April 12, 2008
Whispering Willow
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The other review for this item appears to be for a book by the same or similar title and not these CDs. The CDs are excellent and answer a range of questions from what is a freight brokerage business to pricing services. There is a fair amount of basic business information on here but before you dismiss that as unneeded -- consider that most business fail not because of concept but because of basic business practices. Can't hurt to review the fundamentals.


2 out of 5 stars How to Start a Business!!!   October 13, 2007
Bruce Perkins (Colorado, USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

This is a good overview for a buisness student. This book was not specific to Freight Brokerage, but general business start-up information for any business. The best advice I heard throughout the book was to go to work as an agent for a Freight Brokerage to learn about the business, plus some cautions that this is a fast paced, possibly high stress business environment. The free financial software did not work on my Windows Vista computer. The sample forms are useful if you are not familiar with accounting. There are resources at the end of the book for more information although I am not sure how valuable they are.


1 out of 5 stars what a joke dont waste your money   March 13, 2010
Artur Drozdz (palos hills il)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I am an independent owner operator i have been in buisness since i was 23 andin 03 i became an independent and this book is a FREKING JOKE it dosent tell you how to go find customers it dosent tell you about good load boards and dosent give you any goverment info that you should know about freight rate like i said it is a joke no good info at all dosent tell you any thing a waste of paper writen for a child it has big leters for you and cartoon drawings what a joooookkkkkkkeeeee thank you for reading review


1 out of 5 stars Bad Copy   October 13, 2008
Melina (Florida USA)
I purchased this as a brand "new" item directly from Amazon thinking that I will do better buying a new item from reputable source instead of a used copy from someone else.
The quality of the copy I got was poor for the first CD, for the second one I thought it was a joke. Could it be that the introduction to Freight Brokerage business started with a Gospel song? No it wasn't a joke, the entire CD was a Gospel songs CD labeled as Freight Brokerage Business CD 1. So sure enough, someone made a mistake and labeled the CD incorrectly.

I tried to exchange it and get a better copy, but I couldn't find a phone number in the Amazon site to talk to someone and explain what I wanted to do. According to the site, if I wanted to exchange it I was responsible for sending it back and if they didn't get it, I could be charged twice. They will only provide a free of charge package for "returns". It was too much of a hassle to exchange and it was going to cost me money to do so. So I returned the product and got my money back.
One thing that I wanted to point out is that this is the first time I get a bad product from Amazon; I have purchased several items from them before and never had an issue.