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1 Aug, 2017

Workplace Drug Abuse

Reducing the Risk of Impaired Workers Workplace drug abuse can threaten your bottom line in many...

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1 Aug, 2017

Online Crime

Are You Prepared For The Next Cyber Attack? Cybercrime has dominated news headlines this year,...

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1 Aug, 2017

Think Outside The Box!

Competing With On-Demand Storage Businesses While the concept of on-demand storage is not a new...

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1 Aug, 2017

Automating Your Storage Business

How To Utilize Technology To Save Time And Money It seems like unmanned, fully automated...

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1 Aug, 2017

Markets On The Move: Boston

The Hub Of New England Boston, Mass., is the business capital of New England and ranks among the...

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1 Aug, 2017

Minding The One Percent

As industries evolve, the competition gets fiercer and the stakes become higher. The things that...

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1 Aug, 2017

Digital Marketing 101: 10 Tips That Really Work

Entrepreneur Joe Pulizzi has been quoted as saying, “Word of mouth marketing has always been...

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1 Jun, 2017

Southern New Hampshire

A Stable Secondary Market The Southern New Hampshire (SNH) region is located within the Greater...

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1 Jun, 2017

More Than Just Storage

New Self-Storage Facilities Have a Mixed-Use Component Self-storage industry development has seen...

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1 Jun, 2017

Skydock: The Modern Marina

The Rise Of Urban Powerboat Ownership In some of America’s most developed and densely populated...

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1 Jun, 2017

A Storage Owner's Rights:

When a Rental Truck Damages Their Facility The use of a rental truck is a common occurrence in the...

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1 Jun, 2017

Passé Pages

Is Your Website Obsolete? While we were busy chasing new tenants and conducting day-to-day...

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1 Jun, 2017

Specialty Storage: 20 Products To Meet Your Customers’ Needs

How very interesting our industry has become. Gone are the days of drive-up only storage...

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1 Jun, 2017

Going Up!

The Evolution Of Multi-Story Storage Facilities It’s no secret that land is scarce and costly in...

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1 Jun, 2017

Carlos Vizcarra, president of AMERCO Real Estate Company (U-Haul International), Phoenix, AZ

There’s no denying that self-storage is a customer-centric business. Storage owners and operators...

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1 Jun, 2017

Prospering While Managing Risk

As real estate and economic cycles go, things are usually fine, until they are not. The old adage...

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1 Jun, 2017

The Changing Portable Storage Industry

Accommodating A Growing Millennial Market If you’re tired of hearing about Millennials–the...

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1 May, 2017

Why Offering Tenant Insurance Is Good Customer Service

James Appleton, Director of Sales, Publishing & Special Risk, MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC ...

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1 May, 2017

A Good Fit

Finding And Keeping Good Employees Without Breaking The Budget Vince Lombardi once said, “The...

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1 May, 2017

Steering Rentals

Marketing Your Truck To Accelerate Profits You spent months deciding if you want to embark on the...

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1 May, 2017

The Bigger Picture

Unlocking Profits With Software If you only consider the software you use at self-storage business...

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1 May, 2017

What’s The Pace?

A Look At Lease-Up Trends Last year, Memphis-based Jernigan Capital Inc. funded a couple of...

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1 May, 2017

An Expected Amenity

Considering Climate Control The self-storage industry has come a long way from its roots of plain...

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1 May, 2017

Surplus Uncertainties

Handling Excess Lien Sale Proceeds It’s been more than six years since Storage Wars, a reality...

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1 Apr, 2017

Exponential Growth In Self-Storage

Is The Party Over? Everyone in the business is familiar with the miracle comeback from the Great...

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1 Apr, 2017

What Is It Worth?

A Frequently Asked Question Self-storage facilities typically provide measurable value creation...

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1 Apr, 2017

Modern Makeovers

Rehabbing Older Facilities Someone once said, “old places have soul”. They might have soul, but,...

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1 Apr, 2017

Joe Margolis, CEO of Extra Space Storage, Inc.

Over the past several years, due in part to increased competition, third-party management has...

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1 Apr, 2017

Site Selection Insights

As the self-storage development cycle moves over the crest and onto the downward slope, the...

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1 Apr, 2017

Profit Principles

The ABCs Of Revenue Management For Small Operators There are a number of reasons to improve...

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