Archives for December 2013

The roots of Mercedes Benz

December 31, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

On December 31, 1878, a guy named Karl Benz applied for a patent for a two-stroke engine design. Numerous patents had been pursued for the four stroke engine and Benz sought to patent an idea in a less crowded technological arena. In addition to Benz’ designs, several fundamental patent ideas followed for the two-stroke engine in the next decade.

One of the early innovators of the four stroke engine was a guy named Otto, who also worked with a guy name Daimler, which should be familiar names. Early attempts to build a car were thus probably called an Otto-Mobile.

Moving Companies Roswell Ga

December 23, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

When you find Mark the Mover when searching for moving services near Roswell Ga you have found a reliable and established moving company that has been getting high praise from Roswell movers for more than three decades. The quiet moving company, Mark the Mover doesn’t spend money on giant ugly billboards or noisy radio and television commercials. Mark the Mover has gained notice of Roswell movers by word of mouth, and with 35 years of moving experience relocating Roswell families, a lot of people are talking about Mark the Mover.

Mark the Mover is on facebook and with thousands of successful moves over the years, our customers are our best advertising resource. We believe in putting all our efforts into happy customers, and over the years this has led to slow and steady growth for this company. Call the quiet moving company, search for Mark the Mover and talk to one of our friendly customer service people.

Movers in Atlanta

December 19, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

For some, when looking for moving companies in Atlanta, the lowest price is their only concern. But for some a low price is not enough. An experience with a moving company that was late or careless with their possessions leads many moving consumers to search for a reliable and trusted company, and for many Mark the Mover customers they learn of Mark the Mover by asking around. More than half of our customers come from repeat customers or referrals of our customers. For Mark the Mover, that makes the best form of advertising just doing a good job.

Other people learn about Mark the Mover from Kudzu.com or Yelp, two review site very popular with consumers in Atlanta. We especially like Kudzu.com, an arm of the Cox Media Group, as they employ lots of people in Atlanta. We are a locally owned and operated Atlanta small business and like to do business with people from Atlanta. Folks from Sandy Springs, Roswell Georgia and Alpharetta learn about moving companies and their reviews by going online and using the resources that are available.

Some companies try to manufacture reviews. They hire off shore companies to leave reviews, and some of these schemes have been discovered. Folks are learning to see that if a company has reviews that sound like a bunch of bunk, that’s what they are. Look at a companies feedback and try to judge if these are real people, or are they just a bunch of made up self promotion reviews. Some people look for users that only have one review, and these are sometimes a sign that the account was created to just to leave a moving company review. But sometimes you will see an account name that has hundreds of reviews, and they are still a fake account.

From HuffPo;

One company that posted bogus praise online for its clients told its writers to make their reviews seem authentic by using fewer superlatives, throwing in slang and improving their grammar, according to New York’s top prosecutor.

“Make them sound like personal cases, this is important,” the company, Webtools, told its freelance writers, according to court documents. “Do not make them sound like an advertisement. Do not make them sound the same.”

The article goes on to describe how New York State has cracked down on fake reviews, and how big companies like Yelp have begun to screen more carefully the accounts that may have been created just to leave phony reviews. But not all reviews are created equally. Other places for reviews are saturated with fake reviews and phony accounts.

Google is making an interesting push toward more honest online reviews. Many google accounts are now identified as a real first and last name. However, the problem with this approach is that when peoples names are put on the internet, they may be reluctant to complain as loudly about a company that has their credit card information, and may still be needed to follow up on some relocation issues.

At Mark the Mover, we’re all for a combination of approached. Ask friends and neighbors and use online resources as well. With thousands of moves over the more than three decades of moving services in Atlanta, Mark the Mover has probably moved someone you know. And since we put our effort into moving and not giant billboards or noisy commercials, chances are that you will hear good things about us. But you can also check out Mark the Mover online. With hundreds of reviews, you will learn that we aren’t perfect, but we are pretty darn good.

moving companies around Duluth Ga

December 2, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Duluth Georgia was added to the map named after Duluth Minnesota, when a railroad was commissioned by congress to traverse between the two areas. Moving freight and goods from the Atlanta area to the midwest and north midwest was to be a big business with the new rail lines.

All that was well before the modern highway system, and now household movers near Duluth Georgia look to local moving companies and household moving services near Duluth Georgia for their moving services. While we used to rent a truck, or even have so little furnishings that a few friends with pickup trucks could help us move to an apartment, or from an apartment to our first small home, we might no longer be willing to undergo the stress of moving and the risk of injury by moving ourselves.

When looking for moving services around Duluth Ga, we seek moving companies with established records of success, and that we know carry the necessary insurance and employ the properly trained and dedicated work force to take our moving service with a serious thought. Moving services can now be gauged on-line with reviews at Yelp, the Angie thing and Kudzu.com

Movers also seek the opinions of friends and coworkers, and one name comes up often when people seek reliable moving services near Duluth Ga, and that name is Mark the Mover. Atlanta movers for more than three decades, Mark the Mover has moved more than ten thousand households over the years. Ask enough people about positive experiences using moving services and Mark the Mover will come up.

Since Mark the Mover spends less than other moving companies on promotion, billboards and advertising, we have to make sure to put as much as possible into your moving services. While a moving company can grow quickly with huge yellow page advertisements, billboards and by sponsoring sports teams and such, Mark the Mover is willing to grow at a steady rate while trying to deliver a level of service that brings customers back. Mark the Mover often books more than a third of their business with repeat happy customers.

People smart enough to ask around and do their homework may have first moved with Mark the Mover fifteen or twenty years ago. Since Mark the Mover has been around a long time, and the average American moves once every seven years, our philosophy of providing excellent moving services leads us to have one of the highest repeat customer rate for moving services, while we are well below the industry average for complaints. Sadly, with the large number of household goods moving services we perform, we do occasionally run into a mishap, all moving companies will. But by offering our customers the most advanced forms of relocation coverages, and with our low rates of incidents, Mark the Mover has an un-paralleled level of customer loyalty.

So when shopping for moving services, make a smart move and consider Mark the Mover, our highly trained and experienced moving consultants are available by phone seven days a week at eight in the morning, because we provide moving services seven days a week. In fact we have sometimes provided moving services on major holidays, although overtime makes these time slots more expensive. This year in 2013 we were able to discourage any moving activity on Thanksgiving Day, and our employees appreciated that.