Moving Services – Relax While the Professionals Do the Moving for You:

Feeling like you’re ready for a change? Tired of looking out the same window every day, or maybe just thinking about switching your career path? There are many reasons people decide to move. All it takes is the looming terror of packing to convince you that staying put is preferable to the uncertainty that lies ahead in the face of relocation. Thankfully there are professionals out there who provide the moving services you need to make your experience easier and, dare we say, enjoyable.

Packing

Sometimes you don’t realize how much thought needs to go into packing, until you’re neck-deep in it. Once you realize you’ve made mistakes you have no choice but to live with mistakes or start from scratch. To avoid such frustrations, your movers bring all their experience into the picture. They’re simply better equipped to know the most effective ways of packing.

They can supply you with packing materials, as well as unpack your belongings and distribute them wherever you want inside your new home. Additionally, they will ensure there is always a method to the madness, with strategies that make sense at the other end. Tips like packing your breakables in conjunction with your kitchenware, separating your “donation” pile from your “to sell” and “to move” piles, and filling a suitcase with items you’ll need for immediate use after you move, come from experience.

Using moving services lowers risk

Moving services include ensuring that your items remain intact as they’re transported, and in case they don’t, compensation for your loss. You can decide on two optional kinds of insurance coverage, which a moving specialist will walk you through. Also, using professionals helps prevent the risk of injury from heavy lifting. They’re trained to handle the taxing physical demands in a way that not every layperson is equipped to do.

Dismantling furniture

When making a list of enjoyable Sunday afternoon activities, you’re probably not going to add dismantling or assembling furniture to the list (and you’d be right!). But thankfully you don’t have to think too much about it. Experienced professionals know how to keep your large furniture items safe while transforming them into transportable-sized pieces. At the very least, this may save you the headache of tracking down old Ikea furniture assembly instruction manuals. But, larger furniture pieces are also more prone to nicks and dents when attempting to maneuver around narrow doorways and halls. Breaking the pieces down actually makes it easier to correctly wrap and move pieces that may be valuable or have sentimental value.

Corporate Moving

Moving a business isn’t quite the same thing as relocating a family, but could prove to be equally as necessary and stressful. For example, companies who want to lower the cost of doing business, may move their company headquarters to region with lower rent and taxes. Likewise, some businesses move to cater to a clientele that isn’t as reachable in the current surroundings.

But a business move can come with its own headaches. Federal tax issues, juggling staff, acquiring new business licenses, and other issues may arise. Professional movers have a wealth of information on these topic as well as relevant experience necessary to guide you through it. So if you’re thinking about relocating your company, hiring professionals is the right way to go.

Cleaning

The last thing anyone wants to think about is the aftermath of the chaos that inevitably surrounds moving. Instead of tidying up yourself after a move, your available moving services can double as your cleaning crew. This is another example of how, from start to finish, your movers are with you every step of the way to reduce stress and take care of your needs.

Moving Advice

No matter what the subject is, professionals usually know best. Aside from the standard moving services professional movers offer, good old fashioned advice can be a part of the package as well. From packing tips, as mentioned above, to laying out a general timeline of what to expect during the entire moving process, your movers will reassure you and keep you informed at every step of the journey.

It’s important to remember that no matter what happens, professional movers have your back. The combination of moving services they provide, along with their expertise, will ensure you have yourself a pleasant and efficient moving experience. If you’re thinking about moving, call your professional movers today and get a quote!

From Bartender to Moving CEO: Building a Business on ‘Happy’:

Business advice is interesting. We like it when we come across someone who has risen from humble beginnings to reach an admirable level of success. We like to read about them. We like to learn what they learned so we can do what they’ve done.

Recently, the moving world was introduced to Ross Sapir, an immigrant from Israel who took his experience as a hotel bartender and started a moving company that did a million dollars their first year. It wasn’t a direct road, though. It was his time working as a salesman for someone else’s company in between that got him wondering why moving made people so unhappy, and how he might be able to change that.

What the heck did he do differently?

“Happy” is a word that can be empty or full of meaning. For Sapir, it was the foundation of his business. In this Alister and Paine interview, he lays out a few of the ideas that got him and his company moving up fast. I’ll lay them out for you, along with some tidbits of my own.

1. “We don’t just move stuff. We move people.”

Ross Sapir

This wasn’t just a quick phrase Sapir read on Twitter, but it was his experience working for a hotel was what taught him that. “When you go to a hotel, you don’t just sleep in a bed,” he says. “You go because of the experience.” He adds that if hotels were just about sleeping, you’d go to a Motel 6. (Of course, considering there are over 1,400 Motel 6 locations in the US, we can assume there are people who really just want a cheap place to sleep. But I digress.)

Put this in the context of a moving company. Sure, a customer may just want their stuff moved from Point A to Point B for a few hundred dollars, but if there’s a positive experience built into the process that customer becomes, as Sapir puts it, “a fan for life.”

That fan will tell other people about you and will call you again the next time they need to move. And that fan may have a lot more stuff the second time around, making their move a several thousand dollar deal. Some of you probably know how cool it is to have return customers. I definitely know I do.

2. “We don’t hide behind limited liability.”

Sapir says if a TV is broken during a move, instead of giving the customer sixty cents per pound, he’ll buy that customer a new TV – maybe even something better than the one they had. This turns an ugly situation into a great one and an unhappy customer into another fan for life.

That advice said, we don’t advocate replacing every item that gets dinged, scratched or marred. Happy customers are good; bankruptcy is not. Rather, this unwritten, over-the-top policy of replacing an item that gets destroyed regardless of what is legally required should be the exception, not the rule, and it is the general mindset that you should highly consider adopting.

3. “We read books.”

And we aren’t just talking about how-to guides and user’s manuals. We mean books by successful people in all areas of business and even beyond. Sapir mentions Delivering Happiness by a guy who sold his shoe company, Zappos, for over one billion dollars. (Yup, that’s billion with a ‘b’.) “I wanted my company to be built on that book,” says Sapir.

Whether you’re looking to build your bottom line, improve your company culture, become a better boss or just increase your level of satisfaction, there are tons of books out there to choose from.

• How to Win Friends and Influence People is a timeless classic for business and personal growth.
• Start With Why is a straightforward approach to finding the soul of your business – and expands on one of the author’s many YouTube videos.
• And while I hesitate to suggest a book I haven’t read yet, The New One-Minute Manager, written for the challenges of a quickly-changing world (sounds a lot like our industry, doesn’t it?), uses a scientific foundation to build your version of success.

And by the way…

Sapir tosses in a couple of other tidbits that are well worth heeding, including ideas that have nothing to do with moving furniture but everything to do with building a great moving company.

One, get negative and small-minded people out of your life. They’ll only keep you from reaching your goals.

And two? You have to work your butts off. In case we didn’t already know that!