486 – Starting a Moving Business with Wade Swikle
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Starting a Moving Business with entrepreneur Wade Swikle. How to start a moving company and perhaps consider a moving business franchise.
Wade shares his inspirational entrepreneurial story - starting his moving company while in college with just $600 and growing it to a multi-million-dollar business and offering franchise opportunities in the moving industry. This episode is all about starting and growing a moving company.
Show notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/486-wade-swikle-moving-business/
Wade Swikle is the founder and CEO of 2 College Brothers Moving, Storage and Franchising, host of the Grow Your Moving Company Podcast, and co-founder of Moving Titan Retreats. Wade's entrepreneurial adventure began over a decade ago when, as a student at the University of Florida, he embarked on a path to create his own moving company armed with just $600 and a pickup truck. Against all odds, he transformed his humble beginnings into a multi-million-dollar business with multiple locations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now here is your host. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. This is Henry Lopez. My guest today is Wade Swichael. Wade, welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.4 | Thanks, Henry. I'm really happy to be here. I'm excited. Yeah, looking forward to this. I don't, |
| 0:25.9 | I don't believe we've ever done a deep dive on the moving industry. So this is exciting. Wade's going to share |
| 0:30.9 | his inspirational story, how he got to be a business owner, which included starting his moving company while he was still in college |
| 0:39.3 | with just $600 and growing it into what he is now, which is a multi-million dollar business |
| 0:45.6 | owner offering franchises in the movie industry, moving, movie, moving industry. It can seem like a |
| 0:53.7 | movie sometimes, but a moving industry. And so we're talking |
| 0:57.0 | about those opportunities. He's got a lot of experience there to share. If you want to receive |
| 1:00.9 | more information about the Howaway Business, including the show notes page for this episode and how |
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| 1:13.2 | Just visit the howab business.com. Also, wherever you're listening to the show, |
| 1:17.3 | please subscribe so you don't miss any future episodes. So let me tell you a bit more about |
| 1:22.0 | Wade. Wade Swichael is the founder and CEO of two college brothers moving and storage and franchising. |
| 1:29.5 | As I mentioned, they're offering franchises now. |
| 1:31.5 | We'll explore that on this conversation. |
| 1:33.6 | He's also the host of his own podcast show, Grow Your Moving Company podcast, and the co-founder |
| 1:39.3 | of Moving Titans Retreats. |
| 1:41.7 | We'll explore what that is and how he offers educational and learning |
| 1:45.3 | opportunities through those retreats. Wage and entrepreneur, or his entrepreneur adventure rather, |
| 1:50.9 | began over a decade ago, as I alluded to, when as a student at a University of Florida, he embarked |
| 1:57.7 | on the path to create his own moving company with just $600 in a pickup truck. |
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