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Monthly Archives: December 2016

5 Steps to Hosting a Successful Onsite Self-Storage Auction

Holding self-storage auctions at your facility can be stressful, but these five simple but essential steps will help you be fully prepared so your sales can go smoothly.

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A Self-Storage Buyer’s Guide to Understanding and Calculating Facility Value

Self-storage can be a lucrative investment, but buying a business isn’t a simple process. It requires a hefty initial investment, which makes the ability to accurately value a property essential. Here are some factors to understanding and calcula…

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A Self-Storage Buyer’s Guide to Understanding and Calculating Facility Value

Self-storage can be a lucrative investment, but buying a business isn’t a simple process. It requires a hefty initial investment, which makes the ability to accurately value a property essential. Here are some factors to understanding and calcula…

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Humboldt Storage & Moving Offers Packing Tips for Self-Storage Customers

Packing expert Barry shows how to properly box up books for safekeeping in a self-storage unit in this short video from Humboldt Storage & Moving. The practical method is easy to follow and demonstrates how to keep items safe during a move.

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Offline Marketing in the Digital Age: 7 Tried and True Methods for Your Self-Storage Business

We may be in the Digital Age, but traditional marketing methods are still extremely valuable to self-storage operators. Here are seven of the best non-digital ways to market your facility.

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Register For The ISS World Expo – Get Best Rates Now

There’s no better place to learn about starting or growing a self-storage business than the ISS World Expo! Join us and more than 3,700 like-minded professionals April 10-13 in Vegas.

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Dealing With Unhappy Self-Storage Customers: 7 Steps to Turning a Challenge Into an Opportunity

Self-storage managers often have to deal with unhappy tenants as part of the job, and it’s never easy. Follow these seven customer-service techniques to smooth things over and build a better relationship with tenants.

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Metro Storage to Build New Self-Storage Facility in Wood Ridge, NJ

Metro Storage LLC, which operates more than 120 self-storage properties in 12 states, has purchased a former manufacturing facility in Wood Ridge, N.J., that it plans to demolish to make way for a new Metro Self Storage facility. Slated to open in late…

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Self-Storage Roof-Products Supplier S-5! Hires Business Development Director

S-5!, a supplier of roof accessories for self-storage and other industries, has hired Frank Hogan in the newly created position of business development director. Hogan will focus on deepening relationships with the company’s original equipment-ma…

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Year in Review: 2016’s Hottest Sellers in the Inside Self-Storage Store

In the tradition of annual year-end lists and rankings, here is a look at the hottest-selling products this year in the ISS Store. The list reflects the heavy development and investment activity that continues to propel the self-storage industry and pr…

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