THEY PLAN TO HIT ANOTHER ONE OUT OF THE BALLPARK
Commercial Division Leaders, Left to Right: Austin Pike, Sales Manager, Matt Little, COO, and Jeoff DeLeon, Operations Manager
June 18—20, 2024, Madison, MS – Building upon its stellar reputation in residential moving, Big League Movers in Memphis, Tennessee, launches its commercial office moving division.
Big League Movers is a Memphis, Tennessee, moving company that excels in residential moving. Founded in 2008, by Steve Reed, it has earned a stellar reputation with its clients. Big League Movers has won the Commercial Appeal’s Memphis Most Community Choice Awards—Best Moving Company Award—several years in a row.
Desiring to become the premier office mover in Memphis, too, Reed hired the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®)—the world’s only university of office moving—to train his employees. He sent the leaders of his newly created commercial division to IOMI’s Mississippi compound to teach them the best practice methods for estimating jobs accurately so they can finish on time for the price quoted. Other main topics covered were the best techniques for minimizing the risk of damage to their clients’ furniture, electronics, and office space (carpet, floors, doors, walls, and elevators).
To ensure they provide a consistently high level of service, the company also signed up for IOMI’s online seminar, which provides unlimited ongoing training for all their employees, including those who do the actual moves.
“As a result of their training and ongoing enrollment, Big League’s team is poised to make the most of their IOMI investment,” according to IOMI instructor Ed Katz. “I applaud Steve for his leadership; he is willing to invest in the kind of education that will move Big League Movers to the next level,” he added.
Matt Little, COO learning the IOMI accurate estimating formula that’s based upon “man-hours” instead of the residential “cube and pounds”
Jeoff DeLeon learning how to compute the “optimum crews”
Austin Pike calculating the “combined optimum crew”
One of the few short breaks during the intensive, 3-day, IOMI training. Left to right, Joeff DeLeon, Ed Katz, IOMI instructor, Austin Pike, and Matt Little
Attendee Comments:
“What I like best about the IOMI office moving seminar is that it provides clear communication between sales and operations. Safety is our top priority for our crews, customers, and the public. Every IOMI estimate includes a Scope of Services that clearly defines who is responsible for what, making it easy for crews to safely offer the services that are promised in the sales presentations. Even as we grow, we’ll still be able to follow these best practice methods since we’ll have ongoing training with our IOMI online seminar.” Matt Little, COO, Commercial Division
“One of my best IOMI takeaways was that we learned how to manage our employees by motivating and coaching instead of mandating.” Austin Pike, Sales Manager, Commercial Division
“I was delighted to see how much the training focused on safety. IOMI’s method for loading the moving truck is so much more efficient and safer than what we’ve done in the past, and the way we learned how to protect every monitor, printer and CPU is fantastic. Our employees will be grateful that Ed spent so much time teaching us better ways to reduce the chances of our employees or our clients getting hurt during a move.” Jeoff DeLeon, Operations Manager, Commercial Division
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For more than a decade, many in the moving industry and companies planning a move have come to rely on officemoves.com as a steadfast source of best practices. We advocate, and through the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®), teach:
• Minimizing the risk of damage to walls, floors, doors and elevators during your move. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn the best practice methods for installing extensive building protection.
• Minimizing the risk of damage to furniture and computers during your move. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn the best-practice methods for wrapping every monitor, printer, CPU, server, and copier with two layers of anti-static bubble wrap (with the bubbles facing the bubbles) instead of pad-wrapping computers with filthy furniture pads.
• Timing is of the essence on your office move. If your mover doesn’t finish the job on time, it can cost your company thousands of dollars of nonproductive downtime. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn an estimating formula that’s based upon man-hours instead of the unreliable method typically used on household moves that’s based on weight.
The IOMI® proprietary estimating formula is uncannily accurate because it factors in not only volume but the unique logistics of both the building you’re moving from and to.
Why hire an IOMI®
Certified Office Mover®?
1. On time for the price quoted
One of the biggest complaints about movers is that they often badly underestimate the cost of a move and then don’t finish on time. An International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®)-trained mover learns a formula for accurately estimating cost. By calculating the number of trucks and movers for how long, IOMI® Certified Office Movers® can base estimates on man-hours, volume, and logistics, and not weight, which household movers typically use when quoting an office move. As a result, the chances of a move completing on time for the price quoted is greatly improved.
2. Minimize risk of damage
IOMI® Certified Office Movers® learn the latest techniques to minimize risk of damage to furniture and computers, and are trained in extensive building protection to minimize risk of damage to carpet, walls, doors, and door jambs.
3. Minimize downtime
There is a better way! IOMI® Certified Office Movers® understand that their customers can’t afford to shut down operations during a move, and are trained in techniques to keep client employees working. Many IOMI® graduates offer the “boxless” move — moving the contents in the furniture instead of the contents and the furniture.
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