How to Get Lean in Your Moving Company

SUMMARY

In this episode of the Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares how to get lean in your moving company for the off-season.

You’ll learn:

  • How to decide which expenses to cut for the off-season

  • Why you need to simplify and streamline your business right now

  • What you can do to build your capabilities during winter

Every year as moving season comes to an end moving company owners need to be focused on getting lean.

How do you get lean? How do you reduce the expenses so that your overhead’s not so high and you’re continuing to profit regardless if things start to slow down a little bit during winter?

I’ve got three big ideas here that I want to share with you on what you need to do so that you can maximize this off-season here in 2023, watch How to Get Lean in Your Moving Company now!

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TRANSCRIPTION

Every year is moving season comes to an end. Moving company owners need to be focused on getting lean, right? How do you get lean? How do you reduce the expenses so that your overheads not so high and you’re continuing to profit regardless if things start to slow down a little bit. So I’ve got three big ideas here that I want to share with you on what you need to do to get lean right now so that you can maximize this off season here in 2023, regardless of what happened in the last few months, regardless of if things have been slower, there is tremendous opportunity coming up when things start to shift and you’re able to take advantage of the next boom that comes in this industry.

So I want to share with you what you’ve got to do to get lean now, right? And most people think. When it comes to lien, it’s all about just cutting expenses, cutting expenses, cutting expenses. And the reality is, it’s not about cutting expenses, it’s about justifying every expense. You pull out that P& L, your profit and loss statement, and you justify all of it.

If you don’t have your P& Ls dialed in, that’s fine. You pull out your bank account, and you go through, and you look at every single line, and you justify it. And what I mean by that is, We need to be able to completely, like, line up every expense on that P& L or on your bank statement to investment opportunity.

Right? Why are we spending that money? Is it there to bring us money? Right? And it has to somehow, someway be justified. Now, you might be spending money on a way to make your customers happy. That’s going to bring you more money, more reviews, more repeat customers, more referral business, right? You might be spending money on management to keep people in line and running your processes and running your systems.

That’s going to help. Uh, you might be spending money to come and hopefully join us at Moving Mastery Summit. That’s where you’re going to come and learn the skills, the tools, the knowledge, the mindset, and build the capabilities to be able to actually go back and not be so worried about every little expense, but instead understand your numbers, how they work, and how you’re going to be able to justify every…

on your P and L, right? We need to be able to justify expenses, not just cut them back, because if we start to look at everything that we’re spending money on, it’s just spending money, I’m spending money and we don’t stop for a second to say, why am I spending this money? There was a reason that I initially decided to spend this money and it’s because I saw opportunity and spending this money so we can’t let.

Our feeling of overwhelm. We can’t let our uncertainty with the market make a second guess everything, but we do need to go back and take a look and say, Can I justify this? Does this expense directly lead to me making more money? Right? Does this expense directly lead to giving me the freedom? I need to work on my business and develop a system and a plan so that I no longer have to deal with Looking at these little expenses, right?

It just becomes part of what you do. The next thing you’ve got to do to get lean is not, again, cut back on everything, but simplify and streamline. When I work with clients, when I first get in there and I see the excess waste that goes towards, um, you know, how they’re channeling their resources essentially, it’s like, okay, there’s a lot of money here just kind of falling through the cracks.

Let’s streamline, let’s simplify. Right? Let’s create something to where you are completely aware of every moving part of your business and all the transaction points, meaning, you know, from the minute a lead comes in to the first sales call to the confirmation call to sending the movers out to after the job and doing a survey.

All these transaction points are opportunities to either make money or lose money. And with the way technology is and the way that we’ve got the systems dialed in, You could just streamline and simplify all of this and have the clarity that you need to understand what’s going on with your numbers, what’s going on with your business, and feel that sense of control again, right?

So many people every year, they’ll hurt themselves by just getting rid of things. Get rid of that, it’s an expense. Get rid of that, it’s an expense. As opposed to looking at how can we use this. In our advantage, right? How can we make this work for us? And what we want to be thinking about going into the fourth quarter this year 2023 is not how do I conserve?

Right? How do I? How do I hold back? But no, no. How do I get ready for this next opportunity? And this year, especially you’ve got to be able to simplify. You’ve got to be able to streamline. You’ve got to start implementing new tools like AI and automation into your business because we are at the forefront of a revolution.

Transcribed Right. If you haven’t come to terms with that yet, this is like, there’s like the industrial revolution, like AI is a revolution that is helping companies save countless dollars and stress and aggravation of things that don’t need to be part of the day to day anymore, things that used to be so hard to do systems that we used to implement that, you know, took years and years and years to develop that helped me build a 20 million company.

Right. Now, anybody at any level could get these things implemented and streamline their business. So if you want to know how to do that, come and join us. Click on the link down below. Come and join us for moving mastery summit. All right. All the details are there. I still got one point for you. Last one.

What we got to do to get lean is we’ve got to build the muscles. We’ve got to build our capabilities, right? So often we will let our self doubt of, ah, I don’t know how to do that. I don’t know how to do automation. I don’t, I don’t know how to do AI. I don’t know how to set up systems. I don’t know how to run sales teams.

I don’t know how to, you know, run my numbers and look at my reports and set up and the reality is if that’s what you’re feeling about any of that, all it is, is that you just haven’t built those capabilities yet, right? I didn’t know how to do any of this stuff either. When I started at 19 working out of a truck rental yard, had no idea what I was doing.

But I slowly built those muscles. I developed them, right? I stayed lean. I focused and channeled my resources in the areas that were really going to help me. And this is something that can never be taken away from you. All the skills that I developed and built over the years through the good times, through the bad times, through the booms, through the recessions are what allowed me to take my company into 20, 20 million.

It’s what allows me to take. companies that we work with to that next level to give them the freedom, the money and a business that they actually enjoy. Again, you’ve got to build these capabilities and that’s what Moving Mastery Summit is all about. It’s about helping you and your team strengthen these capabilities of things that maybe at one time felt like they were outside of your comfort zone.

But now. We recognize the importance of them and they must be in our wheelhouse. They must be things that we’re good at. You know, the days of saying, I’m just a moving company owner. I’m not a marketer. I’m not a salesperson. I’m not a, an accountant. Look, I could barely read. I barely graduated high school.

Everything I do with math, I need a calculator. I need a spreadsheet, but none of that matters when you build the capabilities of getting the result that you want. Right? Understanding how to get the result is all that matters. Not the fact of whether you’re good at this or not good at this. So, come and join us at Moving Mastery Summit.

Let me help you build these capabilities, but let me also help you simplify and streamline your system so that it’s not so chaotic. So that you’re not constantly wondering who on the team is going to drop the ball. Right? Let me help you justify. The expense of everybody on your team. So you’re not looking at your team and seeing their weekly paycheck on their head and wondering like, okay, should I cut that?

Should I cut that? But instead justify those expenses and help channel those resources to help lift you up. The minute people start stripping away and stripping away and stripping away, before you know it, there’s no business left. That’s not the plan right now. Fourth quarter 2023 is all about adapting to this new way of doing business, pivoting a new strategy, and then growing.

So if you want to do that, you want my help, I would love to help you because it’s such an important and exciting time. Click on the link down below, get signed up, come and join us October 12th through the 14th at Moving Mastery Summit. I promise you it’s going to blow your mind and it’s going to be the best decision.

That you’ve ever made for your business. Click on the link. I’ll see you there.

How Moving Companies Boost Profits in 2023 – Part 2

Labor Percentage

SUMMARY

In Part 2 of his new video series called How Moving Companies Boost Profits in 2023, Louis Massaro shares how to make more money on every job without cutting your labor costs…

You’ll learn:

  • How to make every job more profitable
  • Why you don’t have to lower your movers’ pay to make more money
  • What you can do to get your labor percentage under control

Labor is a necessary expense for every job, but the costs of paying movers can add up quickly if you’re not keeping up with your overall labor percentage for each move.

If you’re feeling like you’re paying out too much for labor, your first instinct might be to lower the pay for your movers, but that is a bad idea and can result in disgruntled movers, bad morale or even a mutiny. But don’t worry, there are some other options.

Learn how to make more money on every job while at the same time getting a handle on your labor numbers, watch Part 2 – Labor Percentage now!

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How to Operate an Exceptional Moving Company

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares how to operate an exceptional moving company.

You’ll learn:

  • How to alleviate stress and overwhelm in your business
  • Why you must view your business as a separate Operating System outside of yourself
  • What you can do to achieve raving fans and high profits in your moving company

If you find yourself feeling stressed and overwhelmed about your moving company it’s important to remember that your business is just an operating system that is separate from you. 

Look at it as having different parts that make up the whole system. You’ve got your Customer Acquisition System (Marketing), your Move Execution System (Operations), your Team’s System of processes that enable them to do everything consistently, and your Management System to oversee it all…

When you can visualize everything laid out like that, outside of yourself, that’s when everything changes. You no longer have to feel the pain of every little thing that goes wrong in your business affecting you personally.

Learn how to implement an Operating System to achieve the consistent results of raving fans and high profits in your moving company, watch How to Operate an Exceptional Moving Company now!

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In this episode of The Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares why you must systematize your moving company.

You’ll learn:

  • How to move from a stable company to a systematized moving business
  • Why you must be fully systematized if you plan on selling your moving business down the road
  • What you can do to get beyond the point of just having a running business and into the place where your moving company operates like a machine, without stress or overwhelm

In order to have a business that produces the consistent results of raving fans and high profits, you must have an operating system in place. A system of roles and processes that ensure that your moving company is always running at its full potential.

It’s a way for your business to always be solid, profitable, and stress-free, regardless of whatever storms come your way as a result of the economy, the housing market, the labor force, etc.

The operating system is where the value is in your moving company.
Learn how to grow beyond just having a running, stabilized moving company, watch to Why You Must Systematize Your Moving Company now!

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How to Succeed in Long Distance Moving

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In this episode of The Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares how to succeed in long distance moving

You’ll learn:

  • How to cultivate Interline Agreements
  • Why you must be aware of the laws for interstate moving
  • What you can do to avoid losing control when working with other businesses on long distance moves

For a primarily local moving business, setting up a long distance division can be a challenging endeavor, but it can also be a very lucrative one.

The key to avoiding problems and legal issues when you’re transitioning from doing only local moves to adding long distance and/or interstate service to your company is to make sure you know exactly what you’re getting into ahead of time. 

In this crash course, I lay it all out for you and I share my insight and experience from when I decided to do long distance moves in my business. And I don’t sugarcoat it! I give it to you straight up so that you can make the right choice for your company.

Learn how to avoid unnecessary problems and stress by setting up long distance moving the right way for your business, listen to How to Succeed in Long Distance Moving now!

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Ultimate Moving Company Marketing Plan

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares how to set up the ultimate moving company marketing plan.

You’ll learn:

  • How to get accurate numbers on your Marketing ROI (Return On Investment)
  • Why you must Cultivate Your Google Garden
  • What lead sources are working now in the moving industry

As we head into summer it’s important to be proactive with your marketing to maximize the amount of jobs getting booked.  

Are there some of your marketing efforts that you’ve neglected lately, or not paid attention to? Do you have some new ideas or new strategies that you’d like to implement?

Now is the time to get your marketing dialed in.

Learn how to specifically optimize your current marketing plan and take Louis’s best strategies to get more leads, book more moves, and make more money this season. Watch to Ultimate Moving Company Marketing Plan now!

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How to Raise the Standards in Your Business

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In this episode of PROFIT + THRIVE, Louis Massaro shares how to raise the standards in your business.

You’ll learn:

  • How to identify your ideal Optimization Targets
  • Why you must create a clear and measurable plan before you expand
  • What you can do to mitigate potential challenges before you grow

Learn how to save yourself needless stress and headaches by making sure that your existing company is completely dialed-in before you move on to what’s “new” and “next”. Watch How to Raise the Standards in Your Business now!

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In this episode of The Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares how to build your future business now.

You’ll learn:

  • How to plan strategic future outcomes for your company
  • Why you must build your team now for what’s coming later
  • What you can do to close the gap between where you are now and where you want to go

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Making Time to Work on Business Systems

SUMMARY

In this episode of The Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares how to make time to work on creating systems for your business.

  • “It can be a struggle to step away from the day-to-day to work on developing your business.”
  • “Of course, to get to the next level you need a plan, but you also need the time to execute on that plan.”
  • “If you are constantly working IN your business in the day-to-day running of things, you won’t have the time to work ON your business and develop the systems, roles, and processes you need to reach your goals.”
  • “As the owner and visionary of your company, it’s your “job” to focus on doing the things that will really move the needle for your business. You can’t just be working like a regular “employee” doing repetitive tasks and putting out fires all day. You need to step into the role of CEO.
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In this episode of The Moving Mastery Podcast, Louis Massaro shares how to prepare for a busy moving season.

  • “We’re approaching the busy season and it’s time for some spring training in your moving company.”
  • “One good summer in this business could set you up for life.”
  • “Summer is the time to strike when the iron is hot. It will be busy, but that doesn’t mean that you just sit still and let the money come in.”
  • “You’ve got to be strategic and if you plan for it, you can make so much more money with less problems, headaches, stress, overwhelm, etc., and actually keep your sanity through the moving season.”
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