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Now that Eric, Carolina and most of my sales team are gone (well, real-estately speaking; E+C moved to Colorado and the sales team to home offices), LatPro will be moving into a new office that fits our needs better. We’re moving back to Plantation, right up the road. Funniest thing is that the building is the same place LatPro started two offices ago, although a different floor and all different neighbors.

So I guess we’ll just dust off the old letterhead and brochures and business cards and be right back in business. It makes Otavio crazy to save outdated stuff but this time it’ll really come in handy. Oh wait! A lot has changed since then with our marketing materials, positions of people in the company, our logo, and surely our phone numbers, so what remains of the old stuff is still garbage. Maybe we’ll even throw it away this time and not move it again.

So we have a lot to do. A bunch of things are already done—obviously we found the place, signed a lease for the space and got the place painted and carpeted (low-VOC paint of course).

Here’s a to-do list of things I can think of off the top of my head. I am sure that I missed some, so let me know if you’ve moved and there was something missing from this list that would have been ideal to remember beforehand.

• Before we can pack up the office and have the movers come and take the stuff, we need to make sure the new office is business friendly. We need to move our phone, fax, computer and data systems, which entails some coordination with several third-party providers. We need to make sure that the new office is wired to meet our needs and that our computer system is safely situated in a cool area.

• We need new letterhead, business cards and marketing materials with the correct address.

• We need to examine our websites for every inch of space that mentions our old address.

• We need to alert all of our clients that have outstanding invoices, or who regularly purchase products, that we are moving and how to reach us via mail. So an update to our accounting and billing systems is necessary.

• Same goes for the vendors we use—we want them to know how to reach us as well. It will be a very bad day in Florida when the coffee guy can’t find us.

• Then it’s time to install the video and other security measures.

• New updates to our insurance, payroll, and other business certificates that we need to operate.

• Now to go out to the internet and see how many places LatPro is listed with our old address. We are in hundreds of directories, so that should be a long process to find them, request the changes and verify that all was completed properly.

Help me out—what crucial items will make this move go smoothly?

And to get the ball rolling on telling everyone, our new address, effective August 1, 2008 will be:

LatPro
8751 W Broward Blvd, Suite 506
Plantation, FL 33324