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For freight forwarders

Marketing for freight forwarders

Ihya runs marketing for freight forwarders and logistics companies. A dedicated team handles your SEO, paid campaigns, content and outbound, and every enquiry lands in your CRM. Retainers start at $2,500 per month and most teams are live within about two weeks.
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Why forwarder marketing usually fails

Most forwarders grow on referrals until referrals stop being enough.

01

Agencies that do not get freight

You explain CargoWise, a TMS and how forwarding actually works every single time. The learning curve eats your retainer.

02

Invisible where buyers look

Shippers search for lanes, services and problems. If your site does not answer those searches, your competitors get the call.

03

Enquiries with no owner

Leads arrive by email, sit for days and go cold. Nothing is tracked, so nobody knows what marketing actually brought in.

What your dedicated team runs

One brief, one team, one invoice. Everything pointed at quote requests.

Search and content

Get found for the searches freight buyers actually make.

  • SEO built around your lanes, services and trade routes
  • Service pages that answer buyer questions directly
  • Content that makes your expertise easy to buy
  • Local and international search coverage

Demand and outbound

Fill the pipeline instead of waiting for referrals.

  • Paid campaigns that pay back, not vanity clicks
  • Outbound campaigns to shippers and BCOs
  • LinkedIn presence your sales team can sell with
  • Email campaigns to your existing book

Conversion and tracking

Turn interest into booked calls and quotes.

  • A website that books calls instead of losing them
  • Every enquiry linked into your CRM
  • AI agents that answer and chase leads day and night
  • Monthly reporting on enquiries, quotes and wins

Freight fluency from day one

No ramp up, no translation layer.

  • We already speak CargoWise, TMS and forwarding
  • Campaigns written in your buyer's language
  • Experience with forwarders, NVOCCs and warehousing
  • UK trained specialists at a fair price

How it works

From first call to live work in about two weeks, not months.

1

Quick call

Fifteen minutes to understand your trade lanes, your customers and where growth is stuck.

2

The plan

We show you exactly what we will run and what it brings you. No fluff, no guesswork.

3

We get to work

Your team goes live within about two weeks. Enquiries start getting tracked from day one.

One team. A price that makes sense.

Simple monthly plans. Zero overhead. Every plan starts with a call.

Launch

$2,500/mo
Monthly billing, cancel with notice

For teams testing one channel. One focus: marketing, development or AI, with a dedicated point of contact and monthly reporting.

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Growth

Most picked
$4,000/mo
Monthly billing, cancel with notice

The full engine for serious teams. Marketing and development together, a dedicated team, one AI agent set up and live, reviews every two weeks.

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Scale

Custom
Full capacity, every channel

Marketing, development and AI agents with priority delivery, quarterly strategy sessions and multiple active projects.

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Real work, in your world

We have already built and grown for freight tech and logistics.

What we did: built their website, customer portals and the systems behind them, and run the creatives that bring in leads.

Ihya built our website, our portals and the systems behind them, and they run the creatives that bring our leads in. It feels like having our own marketing and tech team, one that already understands freight.
IK
Imran Kabeer
Head of Marketing, SFL Tech

What we did: lead generation for their warehousing services, with every enquiry linked straight into their CRM.

We needed more enquiries for our warehousing services. Ihya set up the lead generation and connected it to our CRM, so every lead is captured and followed up. For the first time we can actually see our pipeline.
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Fawaaz Jishty
General Manager, Tech Cargo Hub

Straight answers

The questions we hear most from teams like yours.

Most small and mid size forwarders get real results with $2,500 to $5,000 per month including management. That funds search, content and one demand channel done properly. Spreading less budget across five channels is the most common mistake we see.
Freight buyers search by lane, service and problem, and they buy on trust and response speed. Generic agencies write generic content that never ranks and never converts. We build campaigns around how shippers actually choose a forwarder, and we already know the systems behind your quotes.
Paid and outbound campaigns typically produce enquiries within the first month. SEO compounds over three to six months. We report both separately so you always know what is working.
Yes. We build CargoWise linked portals, WhatsApp automation and CRM connections, so marketing, quoting and operations stay joined up instead of living in separate tools.
No. Launch at $2,500 per month is built for teams testing their first serious channel. What matters is that you can handle more enquiries, because that is what shows up.

Read before you call

Free guides from the same team, no email gate.

Marketing

How much should a freight forwarder spend on marketing?

Benchmarks by company size, where the first dollars go, and the mistakes that burn budgets.

Read the guide →SEO and AEO

SEO for freight forwarders: a practical guide

A practical SEO guide for freight forwarders: the three keyword types that matter, lane and service page structure, Google Business Profile, content that earns AI citations, and how to measure enquiries instead of rankings.

Read the guide →Buying

How to choose a marketing agency for a logistics company

How to choose a marketing agency for a freight forwarder or logistics company: ten questions to ask, red flags to avoid, what it should cost and how to judge the first 90 days.

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