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WHY THE CERTIFICATION IS IMPORTANT

CERTIFICATION

If you as a mover get AGMC certified, you get paid more and get more work. More people want to hire you more often, and for bigger jobs.

The main point of you as a mover getting AGMC Certified is to prove to customers, AGMC, and other movers your level of knowledge and skill about household moving, but the process of getting certified might also teach you some new things or give you a chance to practice old skills.

There are two levels of AGMC Certification; BASIC and ACE. If you become AGMC BASIC CERTIFIED you automatically get paid an extra $5 on two hour-minimum jobs. If you become ACE certified you automatically get paid an extra $10 on two hour minimum jobs. Prior to becoming AGMC certified, if you satisfactorily do a 10 minute training session at the end of a two-hour-minimum job, you get paid an extra $10 on that job.

You can get certified as quick as within a week or two by submitting to AGMC videos of your work showing a check-list of moving skills that are specified on this website's page "CERTIFICATION CHECK LIST". As soon as your videos satisfactorily cover all the demonstrations specified in the check list, you're done, and AGMC will give you your AGMC mover skill certificate, either BASIC or ACE. You can take your videos on real-world jobs, and/or add some videos you take at home. One easy way to do this is for you to upload your videos to Google Drive, and then give AGMC permission to access your chosen videos on that drive. A link to Google Drive is provided below.

Google Drive

You might, however, want to check out AGMC's online training course program before you submit your videos, so you can be more sure about showing what AGMC is looking for in your videos. You can either do it the slow way of just doing one training session at the end of each of your two-hour-minimum jobs, or you can just read thru the whole course as fast as you want and get it done quick. Go at whatever pace you choose.

If you choose the AGMC online training course option, be aware that this option comes with the stipulation that AGMC reserves the right to retract the offer of allowing a mover to participate in the course to earn the extra $10 on two-hour-minimum jobs, if AGMC judges that a mover is not participating satisfactorily in the training sessions.

WHY DO THIS MOVER TRAINING COURSE?

REASON TO TAKE THIS COURSE #1:

TO GET PAID WHILE DOING IT

TWO-HOUR-MINIMUM JOB

TRAINING SESSIONS

For any movers who are currently enrolled and authorized by AGMC to participate in AGMC's online training program, those movers have the option to participate in a ten minute training session along with each two-hour minimum job arranged by AGMC. There are online instructions for each training session that also have a task or "homework" project to be completed with each session, but between the reading and the homework added together, each session should not exceed ten minutes of your time.

If an authorized mover satisfactorily completes the assigned training session & homework task for that two-hour-minimum job, AGMC will reduce its booking service fee for that job by $10 for that mover, which allows the Lead to pay each authorized mover who satisfactorily completes the assigned training session an extra $10 for the associated two-hour minimum job.

For example, if an authorized mover would normally make $60 for a two-hour-minimum job, he could make $70 instead by adding a ten minute training session. If a Lead is authorized for the training course and does a training session, if that Lead would normally make $90 he could make $100 instead.

AGMC reserves the right to discontinue offering these booking fee discounts for any mover that AGMC judges is not gaining sufficient benefit from taking the course, or for any mover that claims to have done a training session when he really hasn't.

These 10 minute training sessions are a chance to learn the course material and show AGMC your skills, while getting paid for doing it. Getting paid $10 for ten minutes of training works out to a pay rate of $60/hr.

At the end of this course explanation, you may apply for enrollment in AGMC's online training program.

AGMC CERTIFICATION

When you complete the course you will become AGMC certified, which grants you the right to continue to be paid the extra $10 on all AGMC referred two-hour-minimum jobs without you needing to do the training sessions any longer to earn it. You get the bonus $10 on 2hr minis automatically.

Upon earning your AGMC certification, AGMC will give you an AGMC certification certificate, and gift you five AGMC T-shirts, and an AGMC hat & coat of your size, that everyone knows is given only to AGMC certified movers.

FAST-TRACK TEST-OUT OF THE COURSE

If you meet certain minimum standard requirements, you also have the option to "test out" of the course, meaning you can take certain tests, and submit certain specified videos showing you know the required material, to AGMC's satisfaction, and if you pass these tests you can get AGMC certified as soon as you take and pass these tests, without doing the course. Just ask AGMC about this option if you're interested.

WHY ELSE DO THE COURSE?

REASON TO TAKE THIS COURSE #2:

TO GET MORE AND BIGGER JOBS BY DOING IT

Another good reason to do the course is to inform AGMC and your fellow movers, check-box by check-box, that you know a certain list of things about moving. Every time you do a course session, AGMC marks you off for that course session number. The more AGMC knows that you know how to do things sufficiently, the more confident AGMC can be about recommending your services to others looking to hire you, getting you more job offers and more hours of work. And of course, once you complete the course and get certified, that means by far the most.

For example, after AGMC has covered the course material with you that tells you the mover rule "Do not pick up a marble slab while it's in a horizontal (flat) position or it might crack. First slide it to the side where it's supported along the length down the center, and then rotate it into a vertical position while still supported up the length before lifting)". At least AGMC then knows you've been warned of this danger, which is way better than AGMC not even knowing if you are aware of this mover rule, especially when not knowing this rule could cost a $7,000 damage claim (the value of this above shown 1800's antique). If AGMC doesn't know whether you know this mover rule or not, AGMC can't highly recommend your services.

A mover not knowing the "mover rule" about needing to use floor dolly with a particular kind of rubber & flat bottom wheel on wooden floors did result in a $4,000 floor damage claim. You have to know your wheel types.

A mover not knowing he needed to take some pictures of his unload job into a storage unit did cost a $12,000 damage claim.

A mover not knowing he needed to be examining the customer's floor for pre-existing scratch damage did cost a $2,000 damage claim.

A mover not knowing he needed to text to a customer a water damage liability disclaimer before handling a washing machine did cost a $9,998 damage claim.

A mover not knowing the mover rule that his pre-existing damage pictures of a broken TV corner had to also show the surrounding room in his pictures (as proof of when the picture was taken) did cost a damage claim asking for the entire TV replacement (for a TV he didn't break).

All of these problems could have been easily avoided by simply knowing some simple mover rules that could have taken ten minutes to cover in a training session. There are hundreds of such mover rules that should be known when you are doing moving work. Every mover rule and technique taught in this course is bothered to be mentioned because not knowing the rule in the past has caused major problems and big losses of money that could easily be avoided in the future. To AGMC, the training sessions are protection against $20,000 lawsuit claims as well as prevention against all the lesser losses as well, so hopefully you can understand that these training sessions are a "HUGE deal" to AGMC.

Each "homework task" you do for each training session involves you texting, taking a picture, calling, or video calling AGMC with something as a confirmation and demonstration that you completed that training session. In this way AGMC can be checking off the things you have covered as you do the training sessions. The more of the course you make it through, the more AGMC knows you know these things, and the more highly AGMC can recommend your mover's services to shopping customers and other Lead companies, and that translates into more jobs and increased income for you.

Additionally, the more AGMC knows that you know these things the more AGMC is motivated to risk spending more money on advertising to try to pull in even more shopping customers, which could really crank up the job volume of work even more for you. But AGMC is not going to spend more on advertising if there aren't already "highly" recommended movers ready to take those additional jobs. So the training sessions need to come first.

REASON TO TAKE THIS COURSE #3:

TO MAYBE LEARN SOMETHING

And then there's the side effect of possibly learning something that could make your jobs easier, safer, more enjoyable, and more profitable. Not only does very single Pro football team in the world do training, but also every electrician, dentist and hair stylist. Training is not for amateurs, it's what the professionals do.

If a professional football player said "I don't do training, I only show up for games", that player would not be as good of a professional football player, and the same is true for movers.

REASON TO TAKE THIS COURSE #4:

TO HELP YOUR FELLOW MOVER'S WORK ON THEIR PROBLEMS

Another good reason to take this course is that as you participate in the course, that motivates your fellow movers to participate in the course also, and the course will cover the "weak spot" problems that your fellow movers are having. When you work with better movers, that makes YOUR day on YOUR moving jobs go far smoother, and wouldn't that be nice?

REASON TO TAKE THIS COURSE #5:

TO HELP AVOID CATASTROPHIES

(that's my thumb, from not following a mover rule).

If it rubs you wrong to do the training course, and you have to find out the problems that can happen by you actually experiencing all the problems that can happen, the damages, injuries, liability costs and other problems that movers run into can ruin you and possibly those around you. In order for you to succeed you need to be able to learn from other people's mistakes before you make them yourself. Can you afford to get an injury that puts you out of work for 6 months, or afford to pay a $10,000 damage claim right now our of YOUR pocket?

Even if 99% of the material in this entire course does not a thing for you, if there's only one thing you learn that saves you a chopped off finger, that one single thing could make this entire course well worth it to you.

So if you want to succeed long-term, you have to avoid these many land-mines that are laying in wait for you, and you have much better odds of avoiding those land-mines by taking this course.

These course sessions should be done in sequence, so for each further two hour minimum job you do, just do the next training session that follows the last one you did. The course is broken up into ten minute training sessions.

If you do not complete a session satisfactorily, AGMC will let you know, and you might have to go back and try again. But remember, if it gets to the point where AGMC does not think you are gaining sufficient benefit to be worth it to AGMC to give up $10 of booking fee per session for you, AGMC will cease to offer you the course, and you would no longer be paid for doing the training sessions.

This course is optional. You do not need to take this course. You do not need to participate in the training sessions at the end of two-hour-minimum jobs. But you do not get the bonus $10 if you don't do the training session, or are not authorized by AGMC to be taking the course. If you attempt the course, you can change your mind and discontinue the course at any time. There's no real draw-back to trying it.

NOW'S THE TIME TO DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO REQUEST TO TAKE THE COURSE.

If you choose to not take the course, and you text to AGMC a statement saying "I decline the AGMC training course" (with a very brief explanation why), and this is the first time you declined the course, AGMC will give your Lead company a $10 discount on their booking fee for the current 2 hr. min job you are on, so you can be paid an extra $10 just for having read this PRO-TRAINING COURSE EXPLANATION (then you're done).

If you want to request to sign up for the training course, please text AGMC a statement saying "I request to sign up for the AGMC pro-training course". Once you've texted your request to AGMC, AGMC will reply to you with a text stating that you are either accepted into the training program, or that your request is declined. If this is the first time your request has been declined, or if you are accepted into the training program, AGMC will give your Lead company a $10 discount on their booking fee for the current 2 hr min job you are on, so you can be paid an extra $10 just for reading this TRAINING COURSE EXPLANATION.

If AGMC replies to your request with a text stating that you have been accepted into the pro-training program, your first training session after your next two hour minimum job will begin on this website's page titled "CHECK LIST" Course #1, Session #1.

If you instead wish to "Fast-track test-out" of the course, text that request to AGMC, and if this is the first time you are requesting this, you get the extra $10 on the current two hour mini job for reading this course explanation.

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