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The Trick To Building The Best Freight Brokerage Company Yet
Having a successful freight brokerage firm entails more than simply connecting carriers with
shippers. That is only the most basic service they provide. There is a greater need to pay
attention to detail in order to maintain a smooth and streamlined operation. And here are some of the extras you should consider ensuring that your freight brokerage firm succeeds every time besides having a reliable and quality shippers list for your clients.
Get all the systems in place and keep a record of each operation
Freight brokerages need to have records of all the operations that they carry out, no matter how small or big. This ensures security and proper record keeping, which helps you gauge your
qualitative success over time. You may invest in printers and computers to help you create the
receipts, orders, and any other request needed for business. Consider going paperless where
you can by using electronically enabled systems and utilizing the cloud technology, which allows the shippers, carriers, and you to note where the cargo is and how long it will take to get to the destinations.
This applies to all your departments; finance, logistics, administration, and human resources,
among others.
The client is the boss
We are sure that you have heard of the maxim the client is always right. And we cannot stress
this enough. Whatever the client wants, goes. However, these requests have to be within your
powers. For instance, if the client would like your freight brokerage to get them a shipper that
transports luxury goods with extra security, do it! Get the most secure shipper for the job.
Optimize customer interactions the entire process
Yet again, it would help if you made the customer as comfortable as possible. And how you do
this is to offer them a streamlined experience from the get-go. This means you need to have a
working website that the client can peruse effortlessly through your services. Another way to do this is to ensure that the customer support team is doing an exceptional job. They need to be available when needed and offer answers and solutions to any queries raised.
Lastly, the customer must receive their goods in one piece. And in case there was an accident,
they need to be fully and amicably compensated. Additionally, create an app if you have to,
have a hotline and excellent security of your client’s data.
Prioritize marketing and networking
You need to market your company as much as you can to get the word out about your services.
Use social media, which happens to be one of the most effective platforms that cost almost
nothing. You can hold several paid sponsorships and campaigns on these platforms to get you
new clients in just one post.
On that same note, networking on social media is also a viable idea. Create groups and use
hashtags to get people clicking and sharing what you do. This way, you can grow and expand
your client list quickly.
Take away
Becoming the best takes more than just doing the bare minimum. You need to go that extra mile and offer what your competitors give. The above ways will for sure propel you towards getting a successful freight brokerage.
Hamza Fazal is a reporter for The Hear UP. After graduating from the University of Abbottabad, Hamza got an internship at the NPR and worked as a reporter and producer. Hamza has also worked as a reporter for the Medium. Hamza covers health and science for The Hear UP.
Vice reports that a physicist working at the University of Bristol in the UK has potentially discovered quantum wormholes. Researcher Hatim Salih has proposed an experiment that makes a type of teleportation called “counter-transportation” realistically feasible. However, this isn’t exactly the Star Trek transporter many sci-fi fans have dreamed of over the years. Here’s everything you need to know about Salih’s quantum wormhole experiment.
Salih’s quantum wormhole is a huge scientific breakthrough.
The general theory of relativity of the famous scientist Albert Einstein affirms that hypothetical “bridges” are possible between two points in space-time. However, since 1935, when Einstein presented his theory, the existence of wormholes has been purely hypothetical. However, Salih’s experiment paves the potential way to achieve the longstanding goal of traversing a rift in space-time.
Counterportation comes from “counterfactual” and “transportation” and while similar to teleportation, the two terms are not synonymous. “Counterportation gives you the end goal of recreating an object in space,” Salih said. “[B] but we can make sure nothing happened.”
Although unfortunately, for Salih to achieve true counterportation, they’ll have to wait a few years. The quantum computers necessary to perform the task don’t exist yet in 2023. “If counterportation is to be realized, an entirely new type of quantum computer has to be built,” Salih said. However, development is underway, and Salih hopes to complete it in three to four years.
Wormholes are a classic trope of science fiction in popular media, if only because they provide such a handy futuristic plot device to avoid the issue of violating relativity with faster-than-light travel. In reality, they are purely theoretical. Unlike black holes—also once thought to be purely theoretical—no evidence for an actual wormhole has ever been found, although they are fascinating from an abstract theoretical physics perceptive. You might be forgiven for thinking that undiscovered status had changed if you only read the headlines this week announcing that physicists had used a quantum computer to make a wormhole, reporting on a new paper published in Nature.
Let’s set the record straight right away: This isn’t a bona fide traversable wormhole—i.e., a bridge between two regions of spacetime connecting the mouth of one black hole to another, through which a physical object can pass—in any real, physical sense. “There’s a difference between something being possible in principle and possible in reality,” co-author Joseph Lykken of Fermilab said during a media briefing this week. “So don’t hold your breath about sending your dog through a wormhole.” But it’s still a pretty clever, nifty experiment in its own right that provides a tantalizing proof of principle to the kinds of quantum-scale physics experiments that might be possible as quantum computers continue to improve.
“It’s not the real thing; it’s not even close to the real thing; it’s barely even a simulation of something-not-close-to-the-real-thing,” physicist Matt Strassler wrote on his blog. “Could this method lead to a simulation of a real wormhole someday? Maybe in the distant future. Could it lead to making a real wormhole? Never. Don’t get me wrong. What they did is pretty cool! But the hype in the press?
The success of this experiment could change the field of physics forever.
Additionally, Salih posits that this work is tantamount to the particle acceleration work at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). “This work will be in the spirit of the multi-billion ventures that exist to witness new physical phenomena,” Salih said. “[…] But at a fraction of the resources.”
The ultimate goal of the quantum wormhole experiment is to “explore fundamental questions about the universe,” Salih says. And if successful, the experiment could allow scientists to research “higher dimensions.”
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