{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","title":"Next Biz Thing #432 movingco.ca","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":661,"description":"Moving Co. https://movingco.ca\nThis episode looks at Moving Co., a residential and commercial moving company based in downtown Toronto and serving the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario and Quebec. Markus explores why the company owning its own trucks and employing its own crews, rather than brokering the work out, changes what it can honestly promise a customer. The conversation covers one dedicated crew per move, upfront pricing with no hidden fees, full insurance with certificates provided, packing, storage, junk removal and office relocations, and a record of more than ten thousand completed moves. Listen in for a clear look at what accountability really means in a service business.\nThink about the most stressful days in an ordinary life. Not the dramatic ones, the ordinary ones. The day you start a new job. The day a baby arrives. The day you finally deal with the thing you have been putting off for a year. And somewhere near the very top of that list, for almost everybody, sits the day you move house. It is strange, when you think about it, that something so universal, something most of us go through several times over a lifetime, still carries a reputation for going badly. Today I want to talk about a company that looked at that reputation and decided it was not inevitable.\nWelcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where I go looking for businesses that are quietly doing something better than the industry around them expects. Not the giants, not the household names, but the operators who have found a detail everyone else treats as unfixable, and fixed it. Today that takes us to downtown Toronto, and to a company called Moving Co.\nMoving Co. is a residential and commercial moving company based on Fort York Boulevard in downtown Toronto. They serve the Greater Toronto Area, they run routes right across Ontario, and they cross the provincial line into Quebec as well. Add up the communities they cover and it comes to more than...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pb0F3jmlyIfOyRlax9T63lldyNPycKwPJeWzBdTAC44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}