The purpose of this blog is to help you plan for what you’re going to do when you retire.  As a graduate of the School of Hard Knocks, of course [...]

Ed Katz—really is a happy person (even without drugs and alcohol) I don’t know if I’m successful or not.  However, I do know I’m very happy.  I attribute my “happiness [...]

In 2009, while I was teaching my IOMI® office moving seminar to a moving company in Denver, a student brought up my invention, the Spider Crane.  The device enables movers [...]

In my last blog, I talked about my vision of saving my moving company from Goliath by inflating airbags inside desk drawers and moving lateral file cabinets, fully loaded, with [...]

Four years after starting my moving company, I couldn’t believe how successful and profitable we were. With little competition, we “booked” (closed) almost every job we bid on and made [...]

I confess, I had an unusual childhood because my parents thought the sun rose and set over me.  My (brilliant) parents thought I was wonderful, perfect, and could do no [...]

Ed Katz in the beginning… When looking back over my 40+ years of owning my own companies, I’m shocked at how naïve (and stupid) I was, especially in the beginning [...]

Madison, Mississippi, June 12, 2018—JK Moving Services of Sterling, Virginia, is our IOMI® “poster child” in the DC market for adopting and implementing all our IOMI® best practice methods. When [...]

Pretty blunt, huh?  If you are a service provider in any industry, I urge you to verbally and in writing insert a similar warning (in legalese) in every customer contract.  [...]

Let me tell you something—if Home Depot does it, you should, too.  When I buy something (weekly) from Home Depot online, a few days later Home Depot emails me a [...]

In my last article, I extolled the benefits of offering office building managers a Disaster Recovery Program to strengthen your company’s relationships with them. If you recall, we mailed more [...]

Hurricane Andrew August 24, 1992 On August 27, 1992, I experienced a “close encounter of the strangest kind” that led me to develop a powerful new marketing strategy. That day, [...]

In the bad old days before I knew any better, I tried to train workers by becoming their friend and getting them to like me.  My first real experience in [...]

Years ago, I stumbled upon this personality test for screening prospective “white-collar” employees.  Even though we found it incredibly accurate, you shouldn’t implement it unless your labor attorney confirms it’s [...]

Experts say a brand drives business to your door and keeps your customers loyal. What is a brand?  It used to refer to a company’s name and clever slogan.  “Coke® [...]