Growing a delivery business
Grow your Delivery Business.
Growing a delivery business: how to win recurring contracts, price per stop, hire drivers, run dispatch, and scale from one van to a multi-route fleet.
Stats about delivery
What actually moves the needle once you're open
You're driving. You have a contract or two. You also have a week where one route ran perfect and another lost money on fuel and dead miles. Welcome to the wall every solo delivery operator hits.
Here's the truth that separates this business from gig work. You don't scale by driving more. You scale by hiring drivers who drive while you sell. As long as your butt is in the seat, the business is a job with extra paperwork. The operators who break out treat the van as a unit of production: each van handles one route, each route has a margin, and you keep adding vans until the math stops working.
Going from one van to two is the unlock. Your second van doesn't double your revenue, it triples it, because you stop driving and start selling. Contracted last-mile, retail overflow, restaurant fleets, and 3PL partnerships book your vans weeks ahead and let you forecast. Get the per-stop pricing right, get found on Google, pitch ten contracts a month, and the fleet grows itself.
Michal Mujgoš, mujgos.com More about Michal → - $150k–$1M+ Earning potential Once you add vans and contracted routes
- Direct B2B sales Top channel Cold outreach to retailers and 3PLs beats ads
- Per-stop + contract Pricing model Route minimums with monthly retainers for recurring volume
- Driver Best first hire Frees you to sell the next three contracts
Honest check: are you ready to grow it?
Yes, keep reading if
- You're already operating but feel stuck at solo or near-solo
- You're working too many hours for the revenue, and you know it
- You're ready to fix pricing before you chase more leads
- You'd hire your first or second person this quarter if you knew how
- You want a business that runs without you in the truck
Skip this and read something else if
- You're pre-launch — read the "start" guides first
- You want to grow without changing how you operate
- You're afraid of putting someone else on payroll
- You think "more leads" is the only answer
- You'd rather argue with this list than try the ideas in it
Your growth playbook
The order to actually do this in. Each step links a deep-dive guide.
- Fix your pricing Per-stop rates, route minimums, and monthly retainers. Most delivery failures are pricing failures in disguise. Read the guide →
- Own local search Google Business Profile, B2B-focused reviews, and rank for "delivery service + your city". Read the guide →
- Turn on paid ads Google Ads for high-intent same-day searches. Facebook is mostly retargeting for delivery. Read the guide →
- Upgrade the website If your site doesn't generate quote requests from logistics managers, replace it. We build sites that do. Get your website →
- Hire your first driver A driver on your most reliable contracted route frees you to sell. Train them on SLA, customer touch, and chain of custody. Read the guide →
- Systemize and scale Dispatch software, route optimization, and a dispatcher so the business runs without you behind a wheel. Read the guide →
How working with us actually goes
No 12-month contracts, no jargon, no lock-in. You pick what you need, we do the work, and you keep the keys.
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Diagnose
Free 30-minute call. We figure out where you really are and what the next dollar of effort should go to. Honest read on whether we can help. If we can't, we'll point you at someone who can.
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Plan
We write the next 90-day plan with you. Pricing fixes, channel priorities, hiring sequence, the order to do it in. So you stop guessing on Monday.
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Build
We build or rebuild whatever the plan said. Usually a high-converting website, sometimes ad creative, occasionally a hiring playbook. Whatever moves the next milestone.
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Grow
Ongoing playbooks and articles you can read in five minutes, plus a Slack thread or call when you're stuck. You run the business. We're the brain you call when something's off.
Want to grow faster than this?
The guides above show you how. These are the things we do for owners who'd rather have it done.
- Web Design & Development A website that books work, not one that wins awards. See what's included →
- Advertising & Campaigns Turn a budget into booked jobs, not impressions. See what's included →
- Search Engine Optimization Own the searches your customers already make. See what's included →
- Brand Strategy Decide what you stand for before you spend a dollar on ads. See what's included →
- UX & Customer Experience Make it easier to buy. Most sites are not. See what's included →
Growing a delivery business: guides
Written by Michal Mujgoš -
How to get clients and customers for a delivery business
How to get clients for a delivery business: win recurring B2B contracts. Build a target list, pitch a paid pilot, and convert restaurants, retailers, and labs.
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How to grow a delivery business
How to grow a delivery business: growth is route density and retention, not more territory. Pack the routes, keep contracts, and add trucks only when full.
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Setting best prices and billing for delivery business
Price a delivery business on cost-per-mile and cost-per-stop, add a base fee, then bill B2B accounts net-15 with auto-invoicing so cash never stalls.
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A New Delivery Website in 7 Days: What Actually Happens When You Stop Putting It Off
Owners expect a rebuild to eat six months and five figures. Here is the day-by-day of a 7-day delivery website build, and the one hour it takes from you.
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Delivery Website Maintenance: Stop Losing Merchant Contracts to Slow Web Edits
Chasing your web developer for a rate update while a merchant reads your stale site. Every hour you spend managing your delivery website is billed at your owner rate.
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WordPress Is Dead Weight: The AI-Age Alternative for Your Delivery Website
WordPress needed a human to edit through an admin panel. AI ended that job. Now the admin layer just makes your delivery site slow, hackable, and expensive.
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Website Speed Is Costing You Contracts: What Every Extra Second Does to Your Delivery Business Site
A slow site doesn't get complaints from merchants vetting your delivery company. They just close the tab. The research puts a number on that.
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Delivery Website Conversion Rate: Same Traffic, Twice the Signed Contracts
Same merchant traffic, different site, double the signed delivery contracts. Conversion rate decides how many visitors become route agreements.
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The Trust Tax: How an Outdated Delivery Website Kills Referrals You Already Earned
Merchants check your site before they sign. An outdated delivery website quietly taxes the referrals you already earned before the contract ever lands.
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Your Delivery Website Looks Fine on a Monitor. Merchants Are Vetting You From a Stockroom Phone
You approved your delivery company website on an office desktop. Merchants meet it on a phone, mid-vetting. Here is the version you have never seen.
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Delivery Business Not Showing Up on Google? If You're Not in the Top 3, Merchants Never Vet You
Merchants check 3 delivery operators on Google before signing a route. Here's why you're not in that group and how your site is the reason.
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Why the Less Reliable Delivery Company Keeps Winning Your Contracts
Missed windows, a beat-up van, no real insurance on file. Yet their route sheet is full. Here is why weaker delivery operators win merchants.
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Get Your Website →Common questions about delivery
The questions people ask us most before they start.
How do I get more delivery clients?
Direct B2B outreach wins: pitch local retailers, restaurants, dispensaries, and 3PL partners in your service area. A complete Google Business Profile and a site that ranks for "delivery service + your city" backstop the outbound.
Read the full guide →Should I advertise on Google or Facebook?
Google captures urgent intent like "same-day delivery service near me." Facebook is weaker for B2B contracts. Most delivery operators start with Google and a strong GBP, then add Facebook only for retargeting.
Read the full guide →How should I price delivery jobs?
Per-stop or zone pricing with route minimums, plus monthly retainers for recurring contracts, protects your margin against fuel and dead miles. The pricing guide covers rate cards and contracts.
Read the full guide →When should I hire my first driver?
When your busiest route is full and turning away volume. The first hire is usually a 1099 driver on your most reliable contracted route, then full-time as the volume stabilizes.
Read the full guide →How do I grow a delivery business beyond myself?
Growth comes from dispatch software, hiring and routing drivers, and locking in contracts that fill the schedule. The growth guide breaks down the sequence.
Read the full guide →Is TikTok or YouTube worth it for a delivery business?
For most local delivery operators, no. Your customers are logistics and ops managers, not consumers. Spend the time on cold B2B outreach and Google instead.
Read the full guide →