Today we’d like to introduce you to Filipp and Anton Nesterov and Gusak.
Filipp and Anton, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I would say it all started in November 2016 with an itchy thought that it is no longer interesting for us to work as movers for someone else with no future and career prospects. Even though we realized that establishing our own company would cause a lot of headaches and would lower our monthly income, we knew that time was playing against us. It’s either you risk everything or stay where you are forever. You don’t question yourself “whether you should do it or not”. You question yourself “when are you going to do it”. Eventually, we decided to open “Flash Moving Company” by the end of Summer 2016.
Unfortunately, when it comes to doing business you find yourself stuck in between millions of reasons to postpone actions. Such as lack of time, lack of money, or your lovely cat gives a birth to an amazing kitten you have to take off and etc. Spring 2017. It’s like a lightning struck. Painful realization that Time is passing by, but nothing has changed. A year later you are at the same place, earning the same money, working for the same people, for the same company.
Eventually, it dawned on us- it’s time. No more procrastination. No more waiting. Doing things step by step, little by little is better than waiting for the perfect moment or for money to fall from the sky to help you establish a successful company. And the process began: searching for CRM, searching for a convenient website platform, experienced insurance agent, moving supplies and the truck.
As we say the appearance of a stormy activity was created. In fact, we kept on working for our employer. Yet the truth is that a lack of organizational skills and a long-lasting procrastination led us to inability to establish a well-functioning company in a month. As a result, the Flash Moving Company officially started to fulfill its mission only after receiving permission from the State in September 2017.
As soon as we were done with the documentation, we bought our first truck and purchased the very first two branded T-shirts. If you ever ask us about the first lesson we’ve learned from doing business the answer would be. To never let yourself postpone things. There no better moment than now.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
“On paper, there had seemed no hitches, but forgotten were the ditches.”
We are not an exception. Although our expectations were close to the reality, everything went far from what we had planned. When you have no experience in business every step you take seems a hell of a huge problem for you. From getting required insurance and license to organizing your personal time.
I guess everyone knows that dealing with documentation is a painful process that requires a lot of time, attention and, in case of establishing a moving company, a lot of money. Buying out the policies is a challenge you have to accept. As well as the fact that you have no choice but to ask every single friend you have to lend you the amount of money you need.
As soon as we got the money for the policies, State Authorities made an interesting amendment in the insurance law. From now on, in order to have a competitive price for insurance you have to work on your own truck, not rented. Buying a truck is at least $15.000 extra plus new insurance for the truck… And here we were again asking all of our friends for extra money. And searching all over the internet for a truck that has the features we need and the price we can actually afford.
One may think that all the troubles are fading away when you finally solve the problem with truck and policies. Yet, promotion requires much more knowledge and way more investments than you think. Especially when it comes to testing different sources (which means spending money on promotion with almost zero return), making conclusions and future cost planning.
At the moment we have found more or less reasonable and acceptable sources of customers, convenient platform for our website and efficient CRM. We are still planning to increase the capabilities of selected promotion channels and to fill in the gaps in the organizational matters. As well as level up our customer service skills.
Please tell us about Flash Moving Company.
Our company specializes in commercial, residential, local and long distance moving services. We work both with individuals and with business.
Flash Moving Company is always ready to offer flexible price and time frames. We take last minute calls and can quickly mobilize and adapt to any complicated situation. Among all, we have certain standards and unbreakable rules of work quality.
F.e. the furniture is always packed in special “bedspreads”, protecting it against any possible scratches when transported in a truck. We also have certain requirements for our employees. Whether it is a newcomer or an experienced mover from another company, we always provide training in packing techniques we consider the best among all quality standards. A person must meet our quality standards in order to work for Flash Moving Company.
If talking about comparison with other moving companies, I would say that our main feature is the desire to meet all up-to-date expectations. Quality. Standards. Materials. Design. Every little thing matters. We constantly work with our software vendors and always give a feedback on any desired improvements. Solving even the smallest issue within our company can make our customers and employees life way easier.
Unfortunately, there are many companies that have remained in the Stone Age and keep doing business in excel program or even in paper notebooks. From a personal and business perspective, this is absolutely unacceptable.
Pricing:
- 2 movers and a truck: starts from $80/hr
- 3 movers and a truck: starts from $110/hr
- 4 movers and a truck: starts from $140/hr
Contact Info:
- Address: 12 Cook Street, Newton, MA, 02458
- Website: http://www.flashmoving.net/
- Phone: 8572043448
- Email: info@flashmoving.net
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flashmovers/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/flashmovingco
- Yelp: https://yelp.to/qTKq/ft2Q36HIyG
- Other: https://tack.bz/2wihM
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