08 Aug Caught Offside: Transparency Proves Foul Play in Moving & Relocation
The four boys in our household are members of five soccer teams. We watch a lot of soccer. Setting aside my belief that offside is a bad rule that turns the beautiful game ugly, I’m endlessly amused at the offending player/team/supporters incredulous response when the offsides flag goes up: “Who...
06 Jul PricePoint is Finally Free!!!
In case you missed it, PricePoint launched a free version of Mover2Mover this year. I wish that were possible from the outset, but bootstrap realities didn’t offer an ideal freemium path in the early days. I wish we’d done this sooner, but that’s hindsight talking. Read on if you’re interested in a...
29 Mar New International Moving Cost Estimator tool
When it comes to pricing an international move, there are usually very few shortcuts. Your mover will need to know all the particulars unique to your household, the timing of your move, and any other special circumstances that need to be factored in. It’s a detailed process that helps your mover...
06 Sep Supply Chain Shock Waves and International Freight Pricing Volatility
For nearly three years, the international mobility industry has endured incredibly volatile freight pricing brought on by COVID, the conflict in Ukraine, and most recently, the shutdown of inland transport waterways in Europe and Asia owing to the climate crisis. In the face of such dramatic spikes...
27 Apr Make the Grade with PricePoint Portal Scorecards
I'm excited to announce that we've made a notable upgrade to our PricePoint® Portal Scorecards. Our quarterly scorecards are a key feature of the PricePoint Portal ecosystem and a primary way that we provide ongoing feedback to clients and their movers to help level set their moving program....
08 Oct Can COVID Cure Contract Pricing?
Evolution from constraint We’re in the midst of economic and social shockwaves brought on by COVID and an array of subsequent administrative policies. While challenging, the hardship and constraints we’ve experienced have also provided massive impetus for innovation. As crisis constraints gradually...
16 Jul Strategic Advantages of Market Averages
Dear mover, What if your pricing team could be more strategic with their time, and leverage market average pricing on the lanes that probably will never come to be?
19 Jan Dynamic Pricing Test: COVID Case Study
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” — Newton’s 3rd Law I created PricePoint because of the decade of dysfunction I witnessed in the pricing realm of international moving services. There are many structural causes of that dysfunction, but a central pillar is the practice of...
23 Aug COVID’s Impact on Move Pricing (and what you can do about it)
COVID has disrupted the steady, mostly predictable rhythm of supply and demand worldwide, an impact that has been felt notably within the household goods moving industry. Costs are going up for movers in order to allow for more planning time, providing PPE and sanitizing products, and taking extra...
Ryan Keintz
Founder and President. After a career pricing for the largest international movers, Ryan observed that price manipulation was a more critical success factor than customer service or logistical expertise. He created PricePoint to fix a broken system.