Build a Successful Moving Company One Step At a Time

Hey, my friend. It's Louis Massaro, author of 10 Rules of a Profitable Moving Company and founder of Moving Mastery. You know, we've been going now for. This is the ninth week we've been talking about the 10 rules of a Profitable Moving Company. It's a free ebook that if you don't already have it, if you haven't already downloaded it, go to my site, LewisMassaro.com or I'm sure there's a link on this page. You can download it and get it instantly. It's free. And today we're going to talk about rule number nine, which is one step at a time. All right? I put one step at a time in there because, you know, in business, it's an emotional game, too, right? I mean, it's not just do this, do that, do this, do that. It can get frustrating. It can get overwhelming. You know, there could be times where you feel like giving up, and you just have to remember that you just have to go one step at a time. So you may look at another company and be like, wow, they're at this level, and I really want to get to that level. I'm never going to get there. You have to realize that everybody that built their companies built it one step at a time. Maybe somebody had it handed to them, maybe somebody had it given to them, and it was already built, which is okay. But somebody before them, they built it one step at a time. When I started my company, I didn't have anything right. I rented two trucks, I drove and worked out of a truck rental yard every day. I dispatched the trucks from there, and that's how I started my business. And then I took it one step at a time. And you know what? Along the way, I made a lot of mistakes. I fell on my face. I made just a ton of mistakes that cost me money, that just, you know, looking back at it, it's like you could say, I wish those things didn't happen. But no, I don't wish any of the mistakes I made didn't happen because I learned from them. And if you're taking it one step at a time and you're making mistakes, and every time you make a mistake, you learn from it, you're on the right path, right? You're on your way to build a business that you are envisioning that you are dreaming that when you started your company, you had a goal. You didn't just say, you know what? I'm going to start a moving company so that I could create a job for myself. And. And go to work and just have something to do. No, you were excited. You had a dream, you had a vision of a company that you were going to build. Whether that was two trucks so that you could support your family and have a nice living, or whether you wanted to open 50 locations, or whether you wanted to be the next big van line, whatever it may be. You had that dream and you had that vision. But you know what? There's a lot of steps along the way, and it gets frustrating, right? And it's going to test you. Business is going to test you. It's going to test your, you know, your character, your nerve, your ability to push through it. But you just really have to remember that if it wasn't hard, there wouldn't be the reward at the end, right? If it wasn't hard, if there was no struggle, you wouldn't get that reward. So just remember, take it one step at a time. I know that we've gone over a lot of stuff. I've been putting out information every week. You know, the people that I'm working with, they know this. They know that it's all about one step at a time. It's all about laying out a plan of what we're going to do first, what we're going to do second, and how we're going to get there, and laying that out. Lay it out for yourself. You have to look at what steps do I need to take and then just execute on them every day. Listen, Rome wasn't built in a day. You've all heard that, right? Successful businesses were not built in a day. But if you take the right steps, you can build a pretty successful business in two years, three years. That time comes, if you look back and you think about, what were you doing two, three years ago? Seems like yesterday, right? So if you start putting the right steps in place, the right processes in place, you take some of these 10 rules that we've been talking about, and you start implementing them into the. Into your business on a consistent basis and other ideas that you have. These are only 10 rules. These aren't all the answers to everything that you need to run a profitable company. You know what you need to do. It's just a matter of doing it. And the only thing that's going to get in your way is your mind, right? You could be your own worst enemy because you start getting frustrated and you start feeling like you can't do it, and you start just getting discouraged and your mind starts going, like, I got to do all this stuff. It's so much. It's so overwhelming. You know what? One step at a time. That's it. That's all you can do. You can just put one foot in front of the other and continue to move forward, right? And if you do that every day and you put some practices in place and you put some principles in place, and you take these 10 rules, and you start to really develop a plan where you're headed. You're gonna get there, you know, and when you get there, there'll be a whole new set of challenges, right? I mean, when I started, I had a vision for where I wanted to get to, and then I got there, and I was like, you know what? I want to go a little further. And I got there. And each step along the way has its own challenges. That's business. There's gonna be challenges. You know, you can go work a regular job, get a paycheck, you know, show up to work, work your hours, get your paycheck, punch the clock, go home. You know, as long as you don't get fired, everything's all good. The challenges are minimal, right? But when you're in business, there's challenges. But with those challenges come the reward, right? And as the owner of the business, you reap that reward. So embrace the challenges, right? Make sure you're learning from all your mistakes. Make. Make sure you're learning from all your failures. You know, if you haven't heard my story, I used to keep a little black book with me, okay? When I first started, I was 19 years old, and every problem that I ran into, every situation that I didn't know how to handle, I literally wrote in a little black book, put it back in my pocket, right? That night or over the weekend or whenever, I would search for solutions, I would go to the bookstore, I would read books, right? I would try to talk to anybody that I knew that was successful, try to figure out a way, right? So, you know, I'm sharing all this information with you to try to help you avoid some of that. But you're going to hit your own challenges. You're going to get your own set of unique circumstances that you're going to run into. And you just have to remember it's all part of the game. You know, it's like, you can't play football and not get hit, not get tackled. You can't be in business and not have challenges, all right? You. You just need to remind yourself to take it one step at a time, and you're going to get to where you want to Go. And more importantly than that, you have to stay focused on where you're going. You have to envision where you're going, all right? When this video's over, here's what I want you to do, all right? Close your eyes. Envision your company two years from now, all right? Envision two years from now, how everything could be right, the company that you could build if you just focused on what's in front of you, took it one step at a time and started implementing. Right? Envision what that would look like. What would it look like for you? How many trucks would you have? How much storage would you have? Would you be doing long distance? Would you have multiple locations? Would you have a call center full of people working for you? An assistant that handles everything that you need handled, right? How much money would you be making? Literally? How much money would you be taking home every single month? You have to stay focused on that. You have to envision that, all right? When we get off, when this video is over, all right? Take a few minutes. Take five minutes by yourself. Close your eyes. Envision that. Imagine what that looks like. Imagine what that feels like. You have to see it. Then you have to believe it. Then you have to go. Make it happen, alright? You're only going to make it happen one step at a time. Don't get discouraged. You can do this, all right? It's a tough, tough business, the moving business, all right? But it's a great business. You can make a lot of money, okay? A lot of money. If you're not already a millionaire in the business, you can become a millionaire in the business, all right? You just have to take it one step at a time. You can't go from A to L or to M. You have to go A, B, C, d. You know, 1, 2, 3, 4. You have to go in order. One step at a time, alright? Do this exercise. I'm telling you. Stay focused on the business that you want to build. Take it one step at a time. Continue to profit in business because that's what it's all about. Continue to thrive in life. Because you know what? If you're just profiting in business and you're not thriving in your life, it's not completely alright, so keep it complete. Envision that, too. When you're envisioning your business, envision the life. Envision you driving home from your office, right? However you're envisioning that office, envision you driving home. What car are you driving? What does your house look like? Alright, Let me tell you something. I started my business at 19. By 23, I was a millionaire. Alright, I don't say this to brag. I don't even like to talk about it. But. But it's something that I just want you to know because it's possible. All right? And I know there's a lot of people in business moving to any business that get discouraged and it beats you down and it just feels tough. You know what? Every day is a new day. Every day is an opportunity to take another step forward. All right? So again, profit in business, thrive in life. Thanks for tuning in. I really hope this was helpful. Do that exercise, envision your future and. And then go make it happen. Hey, my friend, it's Louis. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Do me two favors. Number one, subscribe to this channel so that you continue to get updates every time I release new training for you. And number two, if you'd like to get ahead a little bit faster and become more profitable in your business, what I'd like to do is give you a copy of my 10 rules of a Profitable moving company. These are the same 10 rules that I applied in my business that helped me grow it into a multi million $10 nationwide company. Okay, so all you need to do is click on the link on this page or head over to louismassaro.com tenrules so that's Louis. L O U I S Massaro M A S s a r o.com 10rules. Just put in your name and email address and I'll email you out a copy. Okay? Until then, every single day, go out and profit in business and thrive in life. I'll see you later.