Santiago Aguilar, “Horatio Alger, II”
Santiago Aguilar proudly displays his Certified Office Mover® diploma after completing his intensive 3-day, in-person training at IOMI’s Mississippi compound.
June 6—8, 2024, Madison, MS – Santiago Aguilar epitomizes the phrase “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.” He became successful without anyone else’s help.
After graduating from San Martin University de Porres with a major in business, Aguilar worked for a bank in Lima in his native country of Peru. Wanting more out of life, he emigrated to the USA in 2012. Since he did not speak English, his employment opportunities in the US were few. He refused to take handouts from the government, and instead, worked as a laborer in construction and on a furniture delivery truck.
By 2016, he learned enough English to get better jobs. His goal was to become a US Citizen (which he did in 2018) and save enough money to start his own company. He accomplished this by working two jobs. As a mover, his dayshift ran from 6:30 am until 5 pm, and as a cashier in a gas station, from 6 pm until midnight—7 days a week for nearly two years.
In 2019, he took his life’s savings, bought his first truck, and launched his own moving company in Boston—King Affordable Movers. By 2024, he owned 7 moving vans and leased his first warehouse. Offering storage for the first time, he changed the name of his company from King Affordable Movers to King Movers and Storage.
As a result of his hard work and stellar moving service, King Movers became one of the leading residential movers in Boston. Instead of resting on his laurels, though, Aguilar still wanted more out of life (just like before when he worked for the bank in Peru). To achieve this goal, he turned his business sites onto commercial office moving and hired the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®). Not only did he enroll his company and all his employees in IOMI’s online office moving training, but he also traveled to IOMI’s Mississippi compound to learn firsthand from IOMI’s founder and president, Ed Katz. There he learned IOMI’s best practice methods to estimate accurately to ensure his moves finish on time for the price quoted with a minimum risk of damage to his clients’ furniture, computers, and the office space.
With his IOMI training, Aguilar plans to apply the same work ethic and integrity to office moving that he has for residential moving. According to Katz, Aguilar and his team are poised to make the most of his IOMI investment. “He is one of the sharpest and best students I have ever trained. His outstanding reputation as a mover in Boston precedes him. I believe he will put his words into action,” said Katz.
Santiago Aguilar learning how to mark and label his commercial moving clients’ floor plans
Santiago Aguilar learning how to compute IOMI’s proprietary estimating formula that’s based upon man-hours instead of the residential movers’ “cube and pounds” so his moves can finish on time for the price quoted
Santiago Aguilar “chilling” during a break at IOMI’s Mississippi compound
Left to right: Santiago Aguilar with Ed Katz, IOMI instructor
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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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