Management

Management
Management

Pulse On Performance: Are Your Operational Goals On Track?

It’s a great time to be in the self-storage industry, isn’t it? It is also a great time to check on where...
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Management

Focus On Commercial Tenants: Adding Profits To The Bottom Line

The self-storage industry has developed dozens of specialty products over the past decades to add an element of product diversity and accommodate...
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Management

Going Once, Going Twice… Are Live Auctions Fading Away?

The writing has been on the wall—at least on the walls of the internet for several years. Most business activity is being...
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Issues

The Neuroscience Of Innovation: How Your Own Brain Limits Your Creative Thinking

Several neuroscience principles limit our ability to creatively solve problems and generate innovative ideas. Understanding some of these principles can help you optimize...
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Issues

Cyber Connections: Effective Networking In A Virtual World

With the shift to our new virtual world, you have probably found it more difficult to build and sustain professional relationships. Yet,...
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Management

Spotting Impaired Workers: Employers Tackle Costly Drug Misuse

The employee’s request had a certain degree of logic. He had just received a prescription for medical marijuana from a naturopathic physician....
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Issues

Workplace Violence: How to Reduce the Risk of Tragedy

It’s a nightmare scenario that haunts every business owner: A troubled individual’s simmering anger boils over into an act of workplace violence....
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Management

A Decade Of Growth: The Ascent Of Storage Asset Management

On May 20, 2020, Storage Asset Management (SAM), the largest privately owned third-party self-storage management company in the United States, celebrated its...
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Look Who’s Talking

Look Who’s Talking – Ann Parham, CEO and President of Joshua Management

By Erica Shatzer In March, no one could have predicted that COVID-19 would be an ongoing issue and topic...
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Look Who’s Talking

Look Who’s Talking – M. Anne Ballard, president of training, marketing, and developmental services, Universal Storage Group

By Erica Shatzer The year is 2020, and self-storage facilities built during the development cycle before the Great Recession...
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Management

Technology And The Manager

By Andy Kelly, Principal and Broker of A B Kelly Realty, LLC (Self Storage and Commercial Property Management) and Principal of Sierra...
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Covid-19

Managing Employees During the Covid Crisis

As businesses suffer, including self-storage operations, there are some inevitable questions that apply to managing staff, especially those that have tested positive...
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Management

Bring On The Perks! Creating An Attractive Benefits Package

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate fell from 3.8 percent in March 2019 to 3.6 percent in...
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Issues

Starting Out Strong: Five Magic Questions You Must Ask

I’m talking about our telephone and walk-in greeting process and the questions and command of the situation that determine how things will...
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Issues

Make Room For Awesome!

StorQuest’s Philosophy For Business And Life Over two and a half decades ago, William “Bill”...
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Management

A Cut Above – The 2019 Managers Of The Year

Similar to star triathletes, the best self-storage managers have the necessary skills to conquer various territories—on site, off site, and in cyber...
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Management

Hire Right!

Recruiting And Retaining Managers Hiring an employee can either be the best move your company has ever made,...
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Facility Maintenance

Donald Jones, owner/president, Donald Jones Consulting & Service, LLC

Within the self-storage industry, the notion that you only have one chance to make a first impression gets a substantial amount of...
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Construction & Development

The Zoning Maze

Finding the Right Path for Permits and Zoning New self-storage facility developers have generally...
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Management

Top 10 Customer Complaints

Handling Issues With Finesse No one likes getting customer complaints, but, let’s face it,...
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Management

Pink Slip Panic

10 Tips For De-Hiring Managers There are two things that are pretty certain in the job...
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Legal Issues

The “Creepy Tenant Dude” Syndrome

What's A Self-Storage Manager To Do? As odd as these stories have become, the solution...
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Financing

What It’s Worth?

Determining The Real Value Of A Property Operating a self-storage business also means owning a...
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Management

Checks For Success

Advice For Conducting Property Visits By Bobby L. Hickman Frequent, thorough property visits to self-storage...
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Management

Clear The Table!

Putting Profits Back Into Your Pockets By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell The numbers don’t lie. There’s a...
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Management

Wield The Five Keys

Leaving A Positive Leadership Legacy In Your Life By Jeffrey W. Foley Many successful business people...
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The Miracle Of Mobility: StorageGives Assists The Disabled

To those of us who live in the U.S. and in most other advanced countries, obtaining a...
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Information Influx: Making Dollars And Sense Of Data

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Spotting Impaired Workers: Employers Tackle Costly Drug Misuse

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The Price Of Protection: Coverage Challenges Climb For Carriers And Policyholders

Insurance is one of the highest costs for self-storage facility owners. While it’s always subject to increases,...
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Building Your Brand: It’s the DNA of Your Business

Close your eyes and imagine a Jeep. What do you see around it? People typically see Jeeps...
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Running 100 Miles Is a Lot Like Starting a Business

There are some things that are commonly considered off limits, if not crazy. Things like running 100 miles or...
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Self Storage Consultancy 101: What a Self Storage Consultant Does and Why You Need One

Occupancy rates and rents at self storage facilities are at record highs, drawing investors and entrepreneurs looking for growth...
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Self-Storage Demand Rises as Sales of Boats and RVs Soar

Call it cause and effect.  Call it the sign of the times.  But it’s happening.  Sales of boats and...
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Social Media Content Ideas for Self Storage Facilities

Increase Self Storage Facility Occupancy with Social Media Strategy   Social Media is one of the best ways to reach your...
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Capital Expenses, What to Include in Your Plan and Budget

Demand for storage and profit potential is certainly a driving force behind the growth of the self storage industry,...
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