Making Your Move

If you're considering the daunting task of moving your company, help is just a phone call--or a mouse click--away. Here are some resources you can turn to:

• Atlas Van Lines publishes An Interactive Guide to Office Relocation, which offers detailed suggestions for making a successful company move; it's available from your local Atlas agent. Atlas also offers a Web site stocked with relocation-related information, accessible at http://www.atlasvanlines.com

• The American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA) publishes Smooth Moves: How to Successfully Relocate a Company, a 100-page guide for completing a company relocation. To order a copy, call the AMSA at (703) 683-7530.

• Dickson Moving Technologies offers an array of relocation fliers, brochures and computer software programs, including: "Bidding Office Moves," a program that calculates projected costs; and a 30-page Super Task List, about as thorough a checklist as there is for entrepreneurs facing a move. For information, call Dickson at (407) 566-8517.

• The Southwest Movers Association offers a Consumer Protection Program with advice on selecting the most responsible mover for your relocation. For information, call (512) 476-0107 or write to Southwest Movers Association, P.O. Box 684845, Austin, TX 78768-4845.

• Other Web sites:
  Moving With Children, http://www.alliedvan.net/07child/index.html
  How to Move: Moving Companies, Moving, Taxes, Relocation, Real Estate, Home, New House, http://www.movedoc.com
  and Charter One Bank, http://www.charterone.com

Contact Sources

Alexander's Moving and Storage, (800) 722-6286, ext. 320, http://www.alexanders-moving.com

ARB Inc., 26000 Commercentre Dr., Lake Forest, CA 92630, (714) 598-9242

Cotton Moving and Storage Inc., 5410 Jessamine, Houston, TX 77081, fax: (713) 665-6653

Dickson Moving Technologies, 561 Campus St., Celebration, FL 34747-4613

National Speed Sport News, P.O. Box 1210, Harrisburg, NC 28075, (704) 455-2531

This article was originally published in the April 1998 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Making Your Move.