Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Tips and tricks make moving go smoother
- Carey Group Celebrates 30 Years
- How to avoid being scammed by movers
- Go Mini’s(R) Announces New Portable Moving & Storage Website
- San Jose Storage Company Vanishes So Do Valuables
- Rich with cash Cisco goes on the attack
- Vendors ptimistic About Macworld Expo 2010

Tips and tricks make moving go smoother
Lincoln Journal Star
There’s also the option of moving pods services. Pod movers deliver a container to your door you load it up with your stuff on your own and the company picks up the container and delivers it to your final destination. I talked with a customer service rep at the pod moving company PDS and pitched her a hypothetical move from Lincoln to Eugene re. Her estimate was a one-week delivery time of all my possessions for a rather pricey amount more than $3000. But a shorter distance is of course a lot cheaper. PDS has a facility in maha that serves most of Southeast Nebraska. If you’re interested check out Pods.

Carey Group Celebrates 30 Years
Noozhawk
“We think ahead how to give them the best experience possible. We are probably the only self storage that on a hot day a manager will bring ice-cold bottled water to your space. Moving can be stressful and our goal is to be the most helpful person in their moving process. ”The company continues to grow as it ventures into wine storage. “With the wine craze becoming so popular it was just a logical next step for us” Carey said.

How to avoid being scammed by movers
msnbc.com
Here?s how to make your moving bill match the estimate given ? and get your furniture delivered in one piece and on time.   The Big Scams?The Hostage?You get a lowball estimate from a moving company but once they?ve loaded your furniture on their truck they change the charges sometimes doubling or tripling their original quote. If you balk at the number they simply refuse to give you your belongings until you agree to the inflated price. Story continues below ?advertisement |.

Go Mini’s(R) Announces New Portable Moving & Storage Website
FXBusiness
The Go Mini’s website is the result of more than six (6) months of strategic brand analysis and planning. “The Go Mini’s website reflects an effort to provide customers with state-of-the-art features to make their experience with portable moving and storage simple and hassle free” said Bill Norris CE of Go Mini’s. “Many consumers are still not familiar with the many advantages that portable moving and storage solutions offer over services provided by conventional moving companies and we wanted to provide the marketplace with a destination where they could learn how to make their move more affordable convenient and flexible. The new website was an obvious way to accomplish this goal” said Norris. When asked to comment on the new website Mr. Norris stated: “We wanted to try something a little different and provide individuals and business with tools and features previously unavailable in our industry. We just felt it was time for our industry to offer consumers the same types of applications that they’re used to seeing on other websites in other industries” Mr.

San Jose Storage Company Vanishes So Do Valuables
KCBS
Employees showed up to work one day this week and found the office at the Trimble Road facility not only closed but completely empty said Assi Elmalen. His company Moishe’s Mobile Storage has been hired by All American to clean up the mess left behind by the franchise owner.

Rich with cash Cisco goes on the attack
HeraldNet
5 billion in cash and investments a solid reputation a network of product resellers and thousands of sales employees — assets that the company hopes to exploit. ne challenge will be whether Cisco can maintain focus. By the company’s own count it has 28 overall priorities running the gamut from computer networks in space to “virtual health care. “Even if Cisco doesn’t stumble Cisco’s rivals will try to use the breadth of its goals against it. Mike Banic vice president of marketing for the switches business at Juniper Networks Inc. a Cisco competitor said it appears Cisco is focusing more on moving into adjacent markets and less on innovations in its core business. “Based on what customers are telling us we are seeing they’re becoming a bit distracted” he said.

Vendors ptimistic About Macworld Expo 2010
PC World
Some of the excitement comes from the reduced costs companies will have to pay to attend the show. Early January is still peak holiday travel season so prices usually remain high. For companies transporting several people (sometimes 10 or more) the savings on travel hotels and other associated costs by moving the show to February 9 to 13 can be significant. “As a businessman I need to look at all the costs” Paul Kafasis CE of. “And we need to know that people will be there.
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