Choosing a reliable professional mover for your relocation project is a hard task and you need all the information that you can get to pick the right company. Word of mouth information and the opinions of previous clients who share their experiences on online review sites are both great sources – here are some features that should encourage you to use them:
- First-hand information from people whose opinions you trust – knowing the people that you get your information from renders the information received more reliable and more valuable. If one of your oldest friends tells you that the moving company they know is reliable, you can surely trust their word;
- Review websites and forums are the digital form of word of mouth – review websites and the forums where people share their opinions about local service providers are also sources of word of mouth information, but in a digital form. The difference between talking to a friend and reading review and forum entries is that you probably don’t know the people who share comments, that’s why it is a good strategy to read as many opinions as you have time for and to formulate your own views and pick a moving company.
Gabriel Kierson
Founder and Owner at American Moving and Storage
Gabriel Kierson is the founder and owner of American Moving and Storage, a Boulder-based licensed carrier with 28 years of operation and more than 40,000 moves completed across Colorado and the country.
A Certified Moving Consultant, Certified ProMover, and Bekins senior-certified agent, he leads a company that maintains an annual claims rate under 1% and crew tenure averaging nearly seven years. He writes on residential and commercial moving, long-distance and mountain logistics, containerized storage, and specialty-item handling.