Jones Piano Moving and Liability Insurance

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	When shopping for a moving service, you should discriminate between cheap and bargain. Cheap cuts cost by cutting corners, While a bargain yields good value for the money spent. A few of these expenses that shouldn't be compromised when doing business are:

            • Insurance

            • Competence

            • Equipment

            • Communications

            • Advertising

Insurance increases the cost of every move.
We carry liability insurance for property
damages and injury, bailees insurance for
protecting the client's piano while in our
possession for either transport or repair, and vehicular insurance for protecting other motorists.

	A short sighted approach would be to drop it. Someone who can’t imagine the consequences of something going wrong, probably hasn’t given much thought to the causes of something going wrong, greatly increasing the probability of needing insurance. A value minded approach would be to incorporate that expense into advertising. Promoting the insurance fact provides assurance and gives some mileage to an expense that, hopefully, never needs to be capitalized on.
	Sometimes piano moving can turn into an adventure, but it is never fun. Cutting cost by paying minimum wage yields minimum help. The wage is the only motivation for getting off the couch, and 10 or 15 bucks often times is not enough. The only people that are willing to work for that wage are kids and adults that are otherwise unemployable (ex-cons, alcoholics, etc), neither of which are reliable. The customer can windup losing a day’s pay waiting for a crew that never arrives. The bargain alternative is to hire a competent crew and pay a respectable wage. They show up on time ready to work. The job gets done, without incedent.

There are no “Gently Used” trucks. By the time U-Haul or Ryder turns loose of one, it’s been driven into the ground. My first truck qualified for this category. Thought I got a bargain because it was cheap, but by the time I finished rebuilding it, I learned that a reliable truck would have been a better bargain. However, I found a bargain when I invested in the very latest innovations in moving technology ( ramps, dollies, blankets, and rigging ). True, they’ve been around for thousands of years, but the Egyptians used them to build pyramids and you just can't knock that kind of success. The right equipment serves as an extra crew member minus the wage. Now that‘s a bargain!

Answering machines are no bargain since most people won’t leave a message. When I’m out of the office, the business phone is transferred to a cell phone. Occasionally calls get dropped, but overall communication is improved and questions and quotes get handled immediately. Even though two phones cost twice the price of one, the combination has increased the volume of connected calls and is a proven bargain alternative to the machine.

John Wanamaker once said “Half my adverti-
sing dollar is wasted. I just don't know which
half?" Had the Yellow Pages been around back
then, he might have upped the percentage to
three quarters. Directory advertising is a neces-
sary evil but is certainly no bargain. Consistently, every year ( good times and bad )the rate goes up 12% while the font decreases by 2%. Now there’s
a “New Sheriff” in town - the Internet. Now I’ve
got 5 gigabytes instead of 5 lines for getting my message out, and a counter that tells me exactly
how effective that message is. The annual price of which is far less than a month of directory adver-
tising. Too early to tell, but it has real bargain potential.

It’s "heart warming" to get a bargain, but buying something “On the Cheap”
is normally always regrettable. Worst of all, in the case of moving an object
that weighs between 350 - 1000 lbs, it has the potential of becoming very
expensive.