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Most moving company owners think commercial is just bigger jobs. It's not. Commercial is where deadlines are real, the stakes are high, and you cannot build it like an add-on. You have to build it like a totally different business. On this Movified Wednesdays , host Mark Hirschi and co-host Steven Reed of Big League Movers sit down with Josh Jurhill of  Muscular Moving Men and M3 Commercial  f...

Patrick Dews grew up in the moving industry. His dad owned a moving company. And then it closed. After that, Patrick went a different direction. He became a "street pharmacist". In 2019, he found himself at a crossroads, got into some trouble, and ended up at a men's treatment center that just happened to run a moving company as their primary business. On this Movified Mondays, recor...

Most moving company owners treat health insurance like a bill that shows up once a year. Jon Brooks treats it like a lever. Jon is the Director of Employee Benefits at Lifetime Insurance Services . He has spent years working directly with moving companies including Big League Movers in Memphis, helping owners turn what most people assume is an unavoidable rising cost into a strategic recruiting an...

What if instead of sending two movers to every job, you sent ten? Jaron Denn had that thought one day while staring at his logo. He had four to six guys and more work than they could handle. He looked down at the name on his truck and it just hit him. What if he actually sent ten? This is that story. On this Movified Mondays , recorded live at the Titan Mastermind Retreat in Scottsdale, Arizona, h...

Most moving companies are missing one of the easiest revenue plays in the industry: Auto transport. On this Movified Wednesday, recorded live at the ATA MSC Moving and Storage Conference in Tennessee, host Mark Hirschi sits down with co-host Steven Reed and Zach Burgos from Run Buggy Auto Transport to talk about a simple question every mover should be asking: “How are you moving your vehicle?” The...

Day two of the Titan Mastermind Retreat brought together a room full of moving company owners, operators, friends, competitors, and brothers in the industry for one of the most honest Movified roundtable conversations yet. This was not surface-level conference talk. This was about implementation, accountability, culture, sales, leadership, team recognition, profitability, brand awareness, scheduli...

If your competitor in your city adds an AI agent this week and you do not, you will wake up tomorrow already behind. That is not a prediction. That is what is happening right now. Dmitry Krotov is the CEO of Boosted Movers , and together with Daria Paretto , they have spent hundreds of hours building AI voice agents, speed to lead systems, and automated booking tools specifically engineered for th...

This week's Movified recap comes live from the Titan Mastermind Retreat in Phoenix. And while the estate was stunning and the breakout sessions were packed with value, the real growth came from something most business events never create: a room safe enough for successful owners to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is not weakness. It's the unlock. You cannot fix what you refuse to admit. You c...

Most moving companies track what they sold. Nobody tracks what they lost. David Meyskens has been in the moving industry for fifteen years. He is a US Marine veteran, the founder of Semper Fi Movers in Conway, Arkansas, and the man behind Marine Grade Automation and Optimization, an AI-powered system he built specifically to close the gap between leads that come in and jobs that actually get booke...

Damien Paul was 27 years old, broke, and sitting in a parking lot in Calgary waiting on a Facebook Marketplace furniture deal that was probably not worth it. He turned to his brother Jonas and said: "Why don't we just start a Moving Company?" Two seconds later he had a name. Manly Movers . Totally random. He has not changed it since. On this Movified Mondays, host Mark Hirschi sits d...

Most moving company owners are chasing more leads. Blake Fitzpatrick went a completely different direction. He gave free moves to nonprofits. He walked into rooms he felt he did not belong in. He refreshed his brand without spending a fortune. And he built one of the most community-connected moving companies in Florida by understanding that your brand is not the colors on your truck. It is every r...

Most moving companies still think they are competing against the company next door. They are not. They are competing against algorithms, AI-generated answers, and a Google search behavior that is shifting faster than most operators realize. The companies that understand this early are going to dominate the next five years. The ones that do not will wonder why their phone stopped ringing. Travis We...

Don't chase the money. Chase the act of taking care of people. The money will follow. That's the line Blake Fitzpatrick got from his first big client at Allegra Homes, and it became the foundation of everything he built after. Blake is the founder of Sunshine Movers in Sarasota, Florida. He started in 2020 with 30 days of moving experience, a $3,000 truck that blew its rear main seal on th...

On this Movified Mondays, host Mark Hirschi sits down with Derrick Potter for one of the most honest conversations about what it actually takes to scale past every ceiling. The staffing crisis at three trucks. The mindset shift at a million. The delegation problem at four locations. And the work nobody sees that gets done in DC to protect the industry the rest of us run. Derrick is the founder of...

David Harman was at a chemical warfare training with the Air Force when his buddy said: why don't you start a moving company? That was a 15 minute conversation in 2020. He flew to Denver, bought a truck he had never driven, and drove it home to Kentucky. He was still a firefighter, still in the Air Force National Guard, still doing EMS, and still running a landscaping business. Chris Sweet sta...

Aaron Steed was 17 years old with no truck and no money. His pitch to clients: rent the U-Haul yourself, drive us to the job, and pay us whatever you think we're worth. Twenty-nine years later, Meathead Movers has 8 locations across California, hundreds of employees, one of the most recognizable brands in the moving industry, and a story that includes a $15 million federal lawsuit Aaron refuse...

Your brand is built by the people wearing the shirt. Not the logo. Not the truck wrap. Not the website. The people. Karsten Desario knows this better than almost anyone in the moving industry. The owner of Kinetic Movers in York, Pennsylvania built a team so loyal they signed their employee handbooks in purple, tattooed the Kinetic logo on his hand, and show up on filming days just to be part of s...

People can smell commission breath. They know when you are desperate. They know when you just want to close. And the moment they feel it, you have already lost them. Heath Sharon has spent 25 years in the insurance industry and earned the nickname Mayor of Insurance Town because he knows everybody and everybody knows him. He hosts the Insurance Town Podcast , speaks on stages across the country, a...

This is the After-Hours Movified Wednesdays episode recorded live at the Moving Legends Retreat in Orlando and it might be the most unfiltered, real-talk panel conversation we've ever captured on this show. Three moving company owners. Three completely different markets. One room. Drinks in hand. Vincent Perez runs Muscle Movers in Las Vegas the highest-rated moving company in a city where get...

One flood job. Pack out. Storage. Move back. That's three billable events from a single call and the jobs are bigger, more urgent, and repeat all year long. Most movers have never touched the restoration channel. And the ones who understand it don't advertise it. On this Movified Mondays , host Mark Hirschi sits down with Brett Bannon , Director at Incredible Restorations one of Vancouver&...

Brandon Wise spent 20 years in the moving industry doing manual labor. He had no tech background. No software experience. No investors. Then he watched AI transform the construction industry — and asked one question: Why can't we do this for moving estimates? That question became Qube Sheets — an AI-powered virtual survey tool that builds a complete, accurate inventory report in real time, int...

Most operators try to win by going wider. More territory. More services. More locations. Brian Tustin tried the opposite — and it's working. In 2022, Brian walked away from a successful career in hospitality management and bought a two-truck moving company in one of the smallest markets in America: a coastal peninsula in Delaware doing $700K on a good year. No CRM. No website worth having. No...

In December 2019, Carolina gave birth to their second child. Six months later — in the middle of a global pandemic — Devin Clayton started a moving company. Carolina Clayton was at home with a newborn and a four-year-old. Devin was on the truck. Nobody knew what they were doing. And for the first couple of years, they were competing over who worked harder instead of building something together. Fa...

Most operators think scaling means more locations. More trucks. More everything . On this Movified Mondays , host Mark Hirschi sits down with Tim Wicker for one of the deepest operational conversations in Movified history — covering what actually breaks when companies scale too fast, why culture matters more than any SOP, and the one mindset shift that separates operators who build something lasti...

What does it actually take to build a moving company that does $66 million a year across 26 locations — and still has the same culture it started with? For Larry O'Toole , founder of Gentle Giant Moving Company , the answer has never changed: hire the right person first, never lower the bar, and build a culture so strong that Harvard graduates show up wanting to move furniture just to be part...