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Courier service leads for local service businesses

Build your own list of courier services, fill in missing emails and offer your services to businesses in their own region to them in small, personal batches.

  • Public sources for courier services
  • Fields that fit the industry
  • No credits, no rented data
Riftjaw dashboard with engagement chart, audience health, lead sources and activity feed

Selling services to businesses in their own region to courier services

Courier services range from one van owner drivers to same day networks with a control room and many subcontracted drivers. Owners decide quickly and care about vans, fuel, insurance and tools that keep jobs moving.

Local service businesses mostly grow through word of mouth, a vehicle with their name on it and a listing in a few directories. A lead database of nearby companies lets you approach the right businesses in your own area instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

The courier services that need services to businesses in their own region are listed publicly. What most local service businesses lack is a list they own, with the right fields, that shows who was already contacted.

What local service businesses run into with courier services

You know which companies are nearby but have no organised list of them.

Paste a directory page into the scrape tool or import a list, then keep every company in one place with its own status.

Contact details on local websites are often just a web address.

Derive role addresses such as info@ and office@ from the domain with email from domain.

Many couriers are sole traders with no website, so email is hard to find.

Keep their phone number in a field, tag them for a call, and use email from domain only where a website exists.

Courier businesses start and stop often.

Source and date on each record help you judge freshness, and you archive those that stopped.

A week of prospecting in Riftjaw

Monday: collect

Export a batch of courier services from public listings and import it. Duplicates are skipped.

Import in Riftjaw: every column matched to a profile field, with all rows previewed
Columns from a maps export matched to profile fields such as company, phone, website and city.

Tuesday: fill in

Derive missing emails with info@, bookings@, office@ and hello@ and tag the records that look like a fit.

Database in Riftjaw with active contacts, segment, lead file and source
The database in Riftjaw: concept, active and archived contacts, each with its lead file and source.

Wednesday: reach

Send one mail about your services to businesses in their own region to the new segment, in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts
Segments such as property managers in London or roofers in the North, each ready to use in a campaign.

Friday: follow up

Opens and clicks show up on each record. Set the ones who answered to Replied or Customer, so the follow-ups of the campaign skip them.

Campaign results in Riftjaw with sent, opened and clicked per contact
After a campaign, every contact shows whether the mail was delivered, opened and clicked.

How to open a mail to courier services

Pick one angle per campaign and write it once, with placeholders like {company|your team} for the details.

  • Keep messages very short, since owners often read them on the road.
  • Focus on keeping vans on the road and cutting cost per drop.
  • Mention specialist work such as medical or legal deliveries if your offer fits it.
Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button
The campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and check the preview.

Fields worth recording for courier services

Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for courier services.

FieldWhy it helps
Company nameThe key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
WebsiteNeeded to derive an email when the export has none.
VansFleet size shows how much they spend on vehicles and fuel.
Same day or scheduledSame day couriers need fast dispatch tools.
Owner driverOwner drivers decide alone and often from the road.
SpecialismMedical, legal or parcel work needs different cover and kit.
Area coveredLocal, regional or national coverage shapes your pitch.

Questions people ask

Keep the phone number as a field and tag the contact for a call. Email from domain only works when the business has a website.

Yes. Add a field or tags for specialism, such as same day or medical, and save a filter for each.

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, bookings@, office@ and hello@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.

Build a database you own

Create your account, import your first list and see it turn into records you can work.

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