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Expanding One’s Storage Facility Investment
Explore 2025 self-storage investments, including traditional, climate-controlled, multi-story, PEMBs, flex space, and, RV, or boat storage options, nationwide.
Hamish Bell
Introducing Housing Permit Data to Radius+: Enhancing Your Decision-Making Power
Radius+ adds housing permit data to help track population growth & development trends, giving self-storage operators insights for more smarter market decisions.
The Radius+ Team
Part 1 - Step by Step Guide Radius+
Build a self-storage portfolio with Radius+. Set alerts, define trade areas, analyze demographics, and track competitor rates for strategic insights.
Feasibility Study Basics
Conduct a self-storage feasibility study with Radius+. Analyze census data, competitors, identify market gaps, & evaluate demographics to inform your strategy.
James McLean
Building for the Road Ahead: RV Storage Building Plans
Americans’ love for travel, intensified by the 2020 pandemic, has fueled the RV industry, resulting in an ongoing surge in popularity.
The Benefits of Outsourcing Your Self-Storage Call Center
Outsourcing your self-storage call center empowers customers with 24/7 support, convenient service options & cost savings. Learn how CSM enhances efficiency.
Brett Copper
Lets Discuss Unit Mix
Do not dive into a multimillion-dollar investment without knowing the unit types and blend your market demands.
Phil Warchol
Self-Storage Maintenance Checklist: To-Dos to Keep Your Facility in Top Shape
Ensure the success of your self-storage facility with this maintenance checklist: pest control, lighting, security, climate control, and more.
Tess Toth
Tips on How To Start a Self-Storage Facility Business
The self-storage industry is only growing, which makes it a very good time to invest. If you’re wondering how to start a self-storage business, look no further.
Common Mistakes Made When Building a Self-Storage Facility
When building a self-storage facility, there are many potential mistakes that can be made along the way, the more mistakes that can be avoided the better.
Melissa Anderson
How Remote Self-Storage Management is Changing the Industry
Discover how remote management can enhance your self-storage facility's efficiency and increase your bottom line with Copper Storage Management's services.
Community Cultivations #4 - The ‘Curse’ Of Low Engagement & The Fundamentals Of Networking
Social media and marketing is a crowded field, do numbers and metrics of your posts and campaigns help you stand out?
Danny Freeman
Community Cultivations #3 - The Power Of Your Online Voice
These two promotional methods can take your brand to the next level.
How Podcasting Can Benefit Your Self Storage Business
Looking to innovate your self-storage business marketing? Consider podcasting! Learn the benefits and how to get started in this comprehensive guide.
Jack Raistrick
Instagram - The Social Media Platform your Self Storage Business Needs
Instagram is emerging as a powerful social media platform for businesses.
Improving the Look of Your Self-Storage Facility
7 cost effective tips for improving the Look of your self-storage facility
Community Cultivations #2 - Working Smarter, Not Harder & The Myth Of Verification
It's time to ditch your in-depth 10-step miracle strategy for marketing success and start working smarter.
Blog Posts: The Secret to Engaging Self-Storage Content
With so many marketing methods to choose from, blogs are sometimes overlooked, yet they may be one of the most successful marketing strategies you can pursue.
Nicholas Sollitto
Community Cultivations #1 - Standing Out & Maintaining Ownership Of Your Brand’s Community
Ensuring your brand stands out online and you are maintaining ownership of your community is crucial in the oversaturated digital markets we find ourselves in.
Architects and Self Storage Developments: Design, Then Build
Choosing the right architect for your self storage project ensures optimal design, compliance, cost savings, and smooth municipal approval from start to finish.
Building Self-Storage from the Ground Up
The process of building a self storage facility and why someone would want to build vs acquire.
Contractor Units: A Solution for the Trades
Offering Contractor Units to the unit mix provides a solution for those who are operating small businesses that are in the trade industry.
Before Construction Begins: Fundamentals of Building Self-Storage
Successfully constructing a self-storage facility involves a multitude of factors, learn the details and how the fundamentals will provide optimal results.
The Self-Storage Fixer-Upper: Ways to Add Value to an Underperforming Asset
Some people flip houses and for good reason, profit in fixing up old real estate. Investing in a weak asset can also reap great rewards in the storage industry.
Tom de Jong
Conquering Parkinson's law
If you want to gain control of your time and maximise the quantity of work you can do, you'll need to overcome Parkinson's Law
Six Days of Feasibility: Day 6 - Do You Have Someone to Walk the Path with You?
Day 6: Deal Makers, not Deal Breakers: Do You Have Someone to Walk the Path with You?
Jay Garlick
Six Days of Feasibility: Day 5 - What Do You Do with a Full Feasibility Study?
Day 5: Get You in the Game: What Do You Do with a Full Feasibility Study?
Six Days of Feasibility: Day 4 - Why Not all Feasibility Studies are the Same?
Day 4: Buyer Beware: Why Not all Feasibility Studies are the Same?
Six Days of Feasibility: Day 3 - How a Feasibility Study Makes You Money?
Day 3 - Self Storage = Cash Cow: How a Feasibility Study Makes You Money?
Six Days of Feasibility: Day 2 - Why a Feasibility Study?
Day 2: Do not Make Business Risky: Why a Feasibility Study?
Six Days of Feasibility: Day 1 - What is a Feasibility Study?
Day 1: See the End from the Beginning: What are Feasibility Studies?
How to Drive Revenue with Retail Sales
Boxes, locks and packing supplies can do a lot of good for the bottom line for your facility.
Jim Mooney, Jr
Renewing Focus On The Holistic Customer Journey
Chris Burnan of StorageMart pens the importance of customer experience beyond the self storage industry.
Chris Burnam
U-Haul Building New Conference and Fitness Center at Arizona Headquarters
The U-Haul midtown campus in Arizona is growing in alignment with the company's healthier you employee focus.
Extra Space Storage Announces New Partnership To Service Employee Education
Extra Space is doing a great job at setting the standard for what company-sponsored higher education programs can be.
Systems, Not Smiles
Saying please and thank you don't insure you'll do the job right every time. Only systems guarantee that.
Jon Dario
The Number 1 Tip for a Great Sales Script
If you aren't listening to the customer and adapting your process to what you hear, you'll lose the customer's trust.
Emotional Intelligence: What is It and Why it's Necessary in the Workplace
Being “smart” at work will only get you so far now days.
Rick Beal
When Good Goals Go Bad
Are you sure the goals you set for your [self storage](https://www.radiusplus.com/keyword/self-storage) team are driving the behaviors you expected?
A Customer Segment Not to Be Ignored: How to Connect with the Hispanic Market
There are more than 58 million Hispanics living in the U.S., accounting for $1.7 trillion in purchasing power
Laura Gattis
Your Employees are the Single Greatest Investment You Can Make in Your Business
47% of employees would like more recognition for the work they are doing and only 7% would like a pay raise.
5 Tips To Get Your Fair Share This Summer
For 2018, our results indicated that only 14% of our renters said that competitive pricing was a deciding factor.
Anne Ballard
When Good Intentions Lead to Bad Service
Here's the problem. The company completely missed the point of what I (and, I suspect, most customers) really wanted.
Leadership Can Be Lonely
Everybody likes to be liked. But, effective leaders know and accept that they might sometimes be lonely at work.
The Best Management Lesson I Ever Learned
Be consistent and predictable in my follow up, and people will strive to meet the expectations.
Why Customer Service May Be The Greatest Differentiator For Your Self Storage Business
One study found that U.S. companies actually lose $75 billion a year because of poor customer service.
It's the People, Stupid
The reality is that some people always find a way to be successful, and others do not.
Don't Forget the Hospitality
So, what can a guy with 600 restaurants, casinos, hotels and sports teams tell us about storage? A lot.
Robert Francis
6 Tips for Your Next Self Storage Conference
There are over 590 million professionals on LinkedIn. 40 million of them are in decision-making positions.
The Lost Art of the To Do List
The volume of tasks to do and to follow up on has never been greater for managers. It will only get more difficult.
18 Minutes That Can Change a [Self Storage Manager’s Life](https://www.radiusplus.com/keyword/self-storage-manager)
When we let the little things take priority we can't fit the really important things into the day.
5 Ways to Increase Your Revenue and Attract Tenants
Boost revenue in your storage business with these tips: raise rents, provide onsite training, update website/social media, upgrade facility, consider expansion.
Anna Taylor