Sales people are an essential part of the moving business. Trying to find the right one for your business can be challenging when interviewing candidates. The final part of this series will provide you with some additional tips to take in to consideration when you are conducting your interviews with your potential sales employees.

Salespeople literally are the ones who can make or break the relationship between the moving company and their clients. And as our economy is beginning to pick itself back up, many moving companies are finding themselves in the market for hiring more salespeople. In this two-part article we will show you some things to keep a look-out for when conducting your interviews for an open sales position within your company.

Famously quoted by Mark Twain, “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Excellently noted is how important it is to tackle your “worst” task first thing the morning, to ensure that the remainder of your day runs as smoothly as possible.

Handling military moves can be one of the most stressful forms of individual moves that a move coordinator will be faced with. It is also one of the reasons while the vast majority of moving companies have one specialty agent who handles only military moves and nothing else. If you are a military move coordinator, here are some bits of advice to keep your head in the game and handle the move with ease and confidence.

Handling moving claims can be very stressful for all parties. From the moving side, you have to deal with angry and upset people. Even though you may have nothing to do with how their items are damaged, you have to deal with the issue and resolve the problem. These are some tips to help with deal with these high-stress situations.

Did you that more than two-thirds of employees claim that they have high levels of stress? And- 29% say that they are too stressed to be an effective employee at work on 5 or more days out of the year. As our economy picks it self back-up out of the hole, moving companies are still doing more, with less at their disposal. This means that the employees are working harder, which can cause devastating emotional and physical fatigue, or worse, burnout.