May 31st, 2010
Moving a Successful Company
You have finally reached a level of success in your start up business and you are realizing that in order to hire more people you are going to need to move your business to a larger location. However, because it is a business, you are going to need to do that without interrupting service to your customers. For some people it might be ok to interrupt service for a few hours but most businesses are a lot more time sensitive and not providing service for a day or two will lose you important customers.
Obviously the first thing you will need to do when moving a business is to find a commercial property management company that will be able to provide you with the type of space you need and the services that your business will need to grow stronger. You will also want to think about what they will be able to provide to you on the move in and the move out. You don’t want to move into a top floor of an office building that does not have a business service elevator to help get the desks and such into your new offices. Some companies like Transglobe property management do both commercial and private management and know just how hard moving a company can be and will provide these sorts of services while others may not.
The next thing you will need to do it plan out the move . Decide when certain things will be packed and moved. You will need to take a few trips and will probably want to move no more than half of the office is packed and moved at once. This will keep at least half of the staff up and able to help out. You will want to make sure that if you are changing phone numbers that customers know what date the old number is going down and what date the new number comes into affect. You will want some crossover because there will be customers who will get confused. Get employees who can not keep working at that moment to help move, this will speed up the process.
Doing these things will help you make the move smoother and you will be able keep the business running as though it was a regular business day.
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