listing order determination

LISTING ORDER DETERMINATIOIN

As your own independent moving company you have the right to decide how you conduct your jobs and how good of a job you decide to do.  However, AGMC, as a listing and booking-help service, has the right to use the AGMC merit based point scoring system to decide the AGMC listing order of moving companies that are listed on AGMC's website (the order in which moving companies are presented to shopping customers), which is the main determiner of each company's general trend of customer referral frequency thru AGMC.  In fact, only the top few listed companies get any kind of semi-regular referrals thru AGMC, with the lower listed companies only getting occasional and sometimes rare referrals when the higher listed companies are not available. That's why, unless your company listing makes it to one of the top few listing spots, you should not expect more that occasional or rare customer job offers thru the AGMC booking service platform.

Google uses a particular set of factors to determine the order that companies are listed on Google when you do a Google search.  Google isn't directing any of the listed companies to "do" those listing order SEO factors, but Google does reveal what factors they are looking at to determine the listing order on a Google search result.    In exactly this same way, AGMC is revealing the factors that AGMC looks at to determine the AGMC listing order on AGMC's website.  These revealed listing order factors are explained below.  Again, AGMC is not telling you to do any of these listing order factors, only informing you what the factors are that AGMC uses to determine the AGMC listing order.  You decide whether or not you want to do anything about these listing order ("SEO") factors, just like you'd decide to do anything about Google's SEO listing order factors or not.  The companies that want to improve their SEO factors will, and the companies that don't want to improve their SEO factors won't and just let their listing order land where ever it will.

Have a realistic expectation that only the top few listed companies on AGMC's list usually get any kind of semi-regular customer referrals from AGMC.   AGMC is actually a very "small fry" operation with a very low volume of shopping customers, so due to the inherent unreliability and low volume of this customer referral source, it's advised that you not rely on getting customer referrals from only this one customer source, and you instead use AGMC's listing service as just an additional possible side source of customers to add to your other sources. Advertise in more than one spot.

As an alternative option, if you don't want to take on all the risks and responsibilities of running your own independent moving company, you could instead sign up for AGMC's moving helper listing service, which helps independent-contractor moving-helpers find free-lance jobs working for independent moving companies.   It's a free service that just helps connect moving companies with free-lance independent moving-help contractors.   Some of those moving companies might even hire you as an employee.  If that's what you want then look on this website's page titled "HELPER LISTING".

LISTING ORDER FACTORS

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #1:

Having your company name registered with the Oregon Secretary Of State, having an EIN number, and having your own moving company website.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #2:  

  The quality and duration of your company's online customer reviews on Google and Yelp, & customer verbal feedback.  The highest 5 star %, & the lowest complaint %.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #3:  

 The reliability of you answering AGMC and customer calls & texts, or calling back quickly. 

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #4:  

 The reliability of you texting your job Invoice picture to AGMC right at end of each AGMC referred job, to let AGMC know what AGMC's booking fee is supposed to be for that job.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #5: 

 The reliability of you paying AGMC the booking fee for a job promptly, by Venmo, no later than right after the customer's payment form clears. 

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #6: 

The reliability & proven track record of you being on-time to your job appointments, or letting the customer (or AGMC) know you're going to be late. 

 LISTING ORDER FACTOR #7:

The skill of assessing the needs of the job during the walk-thru, and informing the customer (& AGMC) if the job requires more man-power, time, or equipment than is currently expected in order to meet the needed timing and requirements of the job, and better predict when your crew might be available for a following job if you want one.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #8:

 Having the right equipment and supply set needed to do the job right.  Bonus SEO listing order points can be earned by showing AGMC you have a good equipment and supply set via a video call, repeating a new video call after two weeks, and again after two months, then once yearly.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #9:

 Letting AGMC know your Availability Schedule, & reliably updating it whenever that changes.  

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #10:

    You making good documentation of your work, & showing you do good work, via taking pictures of your load-walls and texting them to AGMC right after the picture is taken, including flat loads, and loads into storage units, garages, and unloads of other company's loads. 

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #11:

YOU GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR CUSTOMERS, such as a furniture scratch repair, cleaning the truck floor & pathway, putting felt pads on leg bottoms for customers, presenting a slide show of the load-wall pics to the customer, changing their dryer cords if needed, getting rid of scrap cardboard for customers, etc. 

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #12:

 Doing the documentation necessary to avoid high liability exposure; pre-existing damage pictures of customer's items and house, water-damage liability disclaimer, independent contractor contracts, liability exposure limits.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #13:

  If you're not getting the work volume you want ask AGMC for advice & feedback.  If AGMC gives you feedback or advice, talk only about how you can act on it, don't deflect by talking about other people or other subjects.  If you deflect, the feedback will end.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #14:

   You can submit to AGMC photos, videos and video calls showing your moving skills.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #15:

Offering and always honoring a Satisfaction Guarantee to make sure the customer is happy.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #16:

Don't do (or hire crews that do) the "DONT'S": steal, smell of alcohol on a job, speak disrespectfully or unprofessionally, threaten violence, not pay what you owe, not return borrowed equipment, be inappropriate with customers, not show up to a moving job, walk out on a moving job, etc. 

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #17:

Having a business bank account dedicated to only your moving business transactions.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #18:

Be able to accept customer payment by Venmo, check, cash, or card.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #19:

There's a big listing order penalty for hiring illegal workers, those with past sex crimes, or non-employees who have not filled out independent contractor paperwork.  Showing AGMC you are compliant with this earns you bonus SEO listing order points.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #20:

Preponderance of co-worker reports.  Any one co-worker reporting a problem with you on job sites will carry little weight, but the more different people that report problems with you on a job, the more this will be taken seriously and effect your AGMC listing order.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #21:

Not damaging things.

LISTING ORDER FACTOR #22:

Being properly insured.  Also giving AGMC the information and permission necessary to allow AGMC to check into your insurance.