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What to Know When Moving Your Business During the Pandemic With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a vaccine for this novel respiratory disease still not in clear sight, our daily activities have either been put to a halt or slowed down. This unprecedented event has caused so much negative impact, especially to small business owners—those who have plans to expand or move to another location that can potentially offer higher sales growth. Could this mean that moving your business during the pandemic might not be a beneficial strategy for you? To answer this question, it would be better to look into four that can help you decide on your plan to move your business. In other words, do not leave any stone unturned. Consider Making Your Scheduled Move Flexible If you have a move that is scheduled in advance since it is based on your lease that is about to end or you have paid in advance a one-year contract for the rental of your commercial space and you need to utilize it as soon as possible, then this might compel you to push through your plan of moving your business. In this case, you have to make sure that moving services are accessible and available so that you can plan out your business relocation smoothly. Otherwise, you might be forced to rent a van or truck and move all your business valuables and supplies by yourself. Asking for assistance from family and friends might not be that easy since social distancing is necessary at this time, and everyone is extra cautious with their safety and health. You should be mindful of your safety and health, too. On the other hand, if you can negotiate with your current landlord to give you leeway with your lease that is about to end, then that would still give you enough time to prepare for your relocation and study the safety measures that go with it. Aside from that, you have to bear in mind that, in some states, non-essential businesses are temporarily closed based on mandates from local government, and you have to identify if your business would befall the same fate. Eventually, it would just be a waste of your time, effort, and money to force your business to relocate. Flexibility is highly essential in these volatile times. Prioritize Your and Your Movers’ Health and Safety Unless the social distancing protocol has been lifted, it might not be yet a better idea to move your business to another area. You have to consider if you belong to the high-risk group, especially if you have diabetes or asthma, or you happen to be more than 60 years old. This is important to note since you might compromise your health in the process of doing your business relocation. The risk level would even be raised higher if you will be coordinating with a moving company, and the risk of infection is circumstantial. Although you may inquire about your moving company’s protocols when it comes to conducting their operations under the pandemic, you cannot still assure yourself that it would be safe for you and the team that would help you in the process. It is not only you who would be put at risk here. Your movers may be subjected to infection for the whole duration of the removal. You cannot assure yourself that the area where you will relocate your business is COVID-free no matter how much you and the moving team are practicing sanitation and social distancing. Meticulously Inquire for your Moving Company’s Moving Safety Measures Should you pursue your removal, be fussy enough to inquire about your mover’s guidelines designed around sanitation and social distancing. You may discuss this matter with your mover even at the start of planning your relocation. This will give you insights into how prepared and cautious they are in preventing infection from happening as they execute your scheduled business removal. Expect transparency in both ways, especially when it comes to your and your movers’ current health status. You and your movers should be aware of such matters as negligence of this might eventually end up jeopardizing everyone’s safety and health. Inquire from them also as to what you can do to contribute to the safety measures needed for safe removal. It would be a good idea if you provide hygiene products for your movers such as sanitizers, masks, gloves, and paper towels. On your part, you must sanitize your office valuables before you pack them in boxes. Once you are done with the packing, you may put all these things in a sanitized closed room where your movers will just pick them up. This can be a move to maintain social distancing with them. In this aspect, being extra careful goes both ways. It would be best if you prioritized equally your safety and health as well as that of your movers. Study and Prepare Extensively for Your DIY Business Relocation If you are apprehensive about availing of the services of a mover when relocating your business, then you can pull off a DIY removal yourself. Heads up: this is not going to be an easy mission. Hence, you have to lay down a well-designed plan to execute all the steps of this move without risking your safety and health and maximizing the time, effort, and money that go into such a move---both departure from your current business site and arrival at your new business location. Discuss with your current landlord and new landlord the steps that you will be taking in doing your removal: (1) using constantly a sanitizer and paper towel, (2) extensive cleaning of your current business location before leaving it, (3) dropping off the keys and collecting your rental bond from your current landlord, (4) getting the keys of your new business place from your new landlord, and (5) general sanitation of your new business location. You can add more to the list of other concerns would come into play during your relocation. Create a Digitally-Operated Business Upon Arrival Of course, you need to gradually work on your profit as soon as you have settled in your new business location. Although this may not happen overnight, creating smart moves to do this would help you in experiencing financial growth in a new area. Perhaps, it would help you in one way or another as you consider the following: (1) create an online platform to make your services and products available and visible, (2) cultivate an online community to be able to find out how your business can answer their needs, (3) modify your pricing model to a level that it would benefit you and your customers, (4) maximize e-commerce tools in making your services and products readily available and accessible at the click of a button of your customers, and (5) optimize your business systems which may cover areas such as invoicing, sales funnels, and whatnot. In this current climate that you are in, you have to create smart digital ways to keep your business afloat to make your business relocation worth it. It helps a lot if you are being extra careful in all phases of your business relocation. You cannot take for granted even the most minute detail of which. For one thing, so much would be at stake if you don’t calculate well the risks that you would be taking if you would be pursuing such a move. Comprehensive knowledge of the current global situation and good sound judgment are your tools for doing a successful, safe, and smooth business removal at this time.