Opening multiple locations comes with a lot of trial and error. The whole goal is to systematize how your moving business is run so you are able to copy/paste your brand, ethic and skills into a new area. However, when it comes time for implementation- many pitfalls can get you caught in a cross fire.

Ordering boxes is an expensive process alone and there is very little profit to be made at the end of the day when you sell them to the customer. Rather than selling them and never seeing them again, have you ever thought of how much it would benefit your company to have a full refund, or a partial refund for boxes? A direct profit is still made as well, nine times out of ten, the customer does not bring all of their boxes back. For example, if a customer used 100 boxes, but only keeps 15 of them in their house at the end of the day, the other 85 are thrown away.

As an owner of a moving business owner, you have had to put out constant fires. By fires, I mean both minor and major issues that needed attention in your company. By putting out these ‘fires’ you have had a helping hand in decreasing stress, tension, animosity and more between office staff, movers, customers and accounts. When your business is operating at full capacity and movers are coming down the tube faster than you can handle them, it can be easy to put a Band-Aid on something that needs stiches. In fact, is in our nature to simply patch things up and get them to operate at the capacity we need them without giving it a second thought, but this can cause what are called ‘landmine’ moments.

Being the overseer of Moving Business Network as well as a writer, I have had the liberty to speak with several moving companies about how they price their moves and the averages among the industries long asked questions. It has been an incredibly insightful experience, as well as shocking how closely, no matter what state you are from, how similar pricing is across the board.

Telematics is a bit of a buzz word at the moment. Motoring sections of national newspapers, car blogs and haulage industry press are all naming it as a solution to many motoring problems. But what exactly is telematics, and how can it help your commercial fleet?

For quite some time, the term “self-storage” has been synonymous with personal use. We have long relied on these as an off-site garage of sorts or even a spare bedroom for storing old furniture, mementos and seasonal goods.