What Can Moving Teach You?
I am currently in the process of moving, only another few days until the big moving day. All of the packing and thinking of where things will go has got me a little stressed… so I began thinking if there is any good that can come from the packing/moving experience. 
So I thought, moving is very similar to launch a new product!
Before you can actually move, there is a lot of planning and work that needs to be done. But if you fail to do the pre-move properly, your moving day can become a real hassle with the potential of a lot of time and money being wasted.
In the pre-move process, there are many things that you need to do:
- Organizing your stuff and deciding what you want to keep
- Packing all of your stuff that you want to keep
- Notifiing people that you are moving
- Making sure to have a moving truck on the big day
All of the above steps are needed to make sure that your moving day goes as smooth as possible. Just like a launch day for a new product, if you forget to contact joint venture partners, or if your product isn’t fully complete yet, or if one of the hundred other steps are not done, your launch day can become a mess.
Whether it’s packing up your house and moving, or creating a new product to launch, make sure to tick all of the check boxes on your checklist BEFORE the big day!
November 16th, 2008 23:18
Good point Joel! I’ve never heard that analogy before, but you’re absolutely right. Hope your move and future product launches all go smoothly.
Cheers!
Jit Uppal
November 16th, 2008 23:48
Great analogy, Joel!
Thanks for taking the time away from your moving prep to share that - coming out with a ‘launch-day preparedness’ report after the move?
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November 17th, 2008 08:01
Joel,
What a great comparison!
Yeah, when launching a product there is so much to put together and organize. I’m really bad at that part, but hopefully will improve with yours and Doug’s help.
Good luck on the move.
Regards,
Charles Burleigh
November 17th, 2008 08:45
Joel,
Great points about the need to be organized and have a plan.
Without either, you just go about willynilly not knowing where to put stuff and end up with a worse mess than you started out with…..similar to the IM biz…..gotta have a plan and have things organized.
Looking forward to ’seeing’ more of you after the move.
Ron
http://www.email-marketin-made-easy.com
November 17th, 2008 08:46
whoops..let me correct that last link….
http://www.email-marketing-made-easy.com
Sorry
November 17th, 2008 10:10
Joel,
Yes moving is a learning process, I moved about 20 times, at least 10 times it was an international move. You learn to do it each time better, faster and fewer surprises (also less broken stuff….).
Yes, there is analogy with almost every other project you are doing…
Good Luck!
Fred
Fred
November 17th, 2008 14:39
Hmm… Maybe just me but that sounds like a checklist that needs to be created and would be a valuable asset.
Course if I can learn from turtles guess I can learn from Joel’s move too.
November 26th, 2008 15:08
Hi Joel
I know exactly how you feel i moved from England to Portugal earlier this year and its so much harder when you move countries. We had to sell lots of stuff too so we spent lots of time on ebay and made it into an earner.
There was affiliate links all over the place and i added quite a few to my mailing list. After all you have to think about the bigger picture.
hope it all goes well
samantha
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