7 Tips for Relocating Your Business

When relocating your business to a new city, town or a large metropolitan area, there are a lot of things to consider. Indeed, businesses have lots of reasons for relocating. Whether it is related to budget, energy efficiency matters, tax-related matters, downsizing of staff, or other factors. Here are seven essential tips for relocating your business.

1. Find Out Where You Can Get A Tax Break
   Some small businesses, if they research the area that they wantto relocate to, can get tax breaks for moving to a Hub Zone, becoming HUBZone certified and employing people in Business zones that are historically underutilized. United States Congress created the HUBZone Empowerment Act in 1989.
2. Move Offices To A Building That Is Energy Efficient
   Energy efficient, green buildings can provide hidden benefits. And they have the potential to cut down on your rates when it comes to energy usage. It may be worthwhile to find offices and buildings that are green.
3. Buy Insurance For The Big Move
   While this may be a no-brainer for large, Fortune 500 companies, with thousands of employees, small and mid-sized businesses can benefit from insurance coverage in case computers or furniture walk away en masse.
4. Notify Everyone of the Move
   For those businesses on a shoestring budget, it is crucial that your website, your social media accounts, post office, creditors, and even "Google My Business" are updated to reflect the location change. Your current and future customers will still need to find you.
5. Make A Checklist
   For any sized business, a checklist is crucial to having everything listed and prioritized. Going through the list many times to make sure all items are accounted for, packed, and shipped to the new location is essential. Having your business capital pilfered because it was not included on the list could put extra burdens on your enterprise when there didn't need to be.
6. Downsizing and Donating
   With a business relocation, it could be an excellent time to donate and downsize things that you meant to give away. That extra desk and office couch could give you a tax break by donating it to the Goodwill or the Salvation Army.
7. Getting a Storage Container or Hire a Moving Company
   It is a big decision on whether to hire a company to move your business or toget a portable storage container. The biggest benefit to a portable storage box is that you can pack the storage box as you wish. When packing it full, you can make sure to align everything to lessen chances of breakage. Movers don't always know or pay attention to breakables.

   In conclusion, relocating a business may be an enormous, rather complex undertaking, but knowing these seven tips can help provide clarification. Proper due diligence and pinpointing the best locales to move to can benefit the enterprise.

Tom James,