Technology
Technology
The Personal Touch: Live Customer Support Is A Must At Unmanned Facilities
Unmanned. Manless. Autonomous. These words continue to crop up in self-storage industry ads, articles, speaking sessions, seminars, and more. “Unmanned self-storage” has frequently been...
Virtual Liabilities: Cyber Risks And Self-Storage
The self-storage market has been valued globally at over $40 billion. As part of the industry’s growth and expanded use of technology to operate...
Virtual Liabilities: Cyber Risks and Self-Storage
The self-storage market has been valued globally at over $40 billion. As part of the industry’s growth and expanded use of technology to operate...
Information Influx: Making Dollars And Sense Of Data
The dictionary defines data as “facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.” In this digital world, in which facts and statistics are...
Out With The Old: Five Tips For Becoming More Innovative
When you really need new ideas or fresh thinking or a creative solution to a challenge, a typical, day-to-day approach in your thinking is...
Digital Daze: Is Technology A Leading Or Bleeding Edge?
It’s everywhere. Virtually everyone uses it. It defines modern life, with both good and bad effects. And it keeps changing and growing. It’s technology. It...
Cyber Scams: Reducing Vulnerabilities With Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is critically important for all businesses in all industries, including self-storage. And the increasing number and types of cyberattacks worldwide make cybersecurity even...
All-Ability Access: The Dos And Don’ts Of Website Accessibility
By Let’s take a poll. When you need to know something about a business, where do you look? Call it a hunch, but we...
Information Influx: Making Dollars And Sense Of Data
The dictionary defines data as “facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.” In this digital world, in which facts and statistics are...
Cybercrime 101: Identifying And Combatting Cyber Risks
The amazing power and flexibility that information technology brings to the marketplace and to people’s lives come with some caveats. One of them is...
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 Self Storage...
Winning With Websites Six Steps To Maximum Your ROI
Automated technology is supposed to make our lives less complicated and it has in many ways. It has done wonders for many industries, including...
Winning With Websites: Six Steps To Maximum Your ROI
Automated technology is supposed to make our lives less complicated and it has in many ways. It has done wonders for many industries, including...
Convenient Communication: Why Customers Want To Text You
By Christine DeBord We all know how important it is to
meet our customers where they are and to interact with them in the way they
want...
Infinite Possibilities
The Intensifying Need For Self-Storage Data Data is broadly
defined as “facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.”
As such, data can come in...
Claim My Business
The Ins and Outs Of Internet Marketing *This is an update of the article written for the June 2016 issue of the Mini-Storage Messenger. As...
Storage CX: The Customer Experience
The Next Competitive Battlefield The self-storage customer experience
is changing. You may even be wondering why it’s called customer experience and
what all the hullabaloo is about....
Building Better Business Relationships
16 Common Networking Mistakes That Can Derail Your Career Networking is a skill that can help you develop and build long‐lasting business and social relationships....
E-Sign Lease Agreements
Understanding the Legalities Starting with the passage of the
E-Sign law in 2000 (formally the Electronic Signatures in Global and National
Commerce Act), landlords, including self-storage...
Social Recruiting
How to Use Social Networks to Attract Top Talent Hiring top talent has never been easy. With the current tightening of the labor market, though,...
Competitive Positioning
Keeping Pace With Technology To Protect Your Investment By Stan Houser Savvy self-storage operators are taking advantage of technology to
gain a competitive edge and command...
Something Fishy Is Going On Here
Handling Suspicion Of Criminal Activity At Your Facility Law enforcement commonly describes certain red flags for self-storage operators that might suggest criminal activity occurring at...
Lost In Cyberspace
How To Handle Productivity Problems Of The Digital Age Similar
to other industries, the self-storage industry’s reliance on technology and the
internet is intensifying. Self-storage facilities across...
Credit Reporting
Can It Generate Extra Income? By Scott Zucker Self-storage owners and operators are
smart to consider all types of ways to increase the value of...
From Asset To Liability
What To Do When An Employee Becomes A Cybercriminal By Bryce Austin The FBI caught David Yen Lee at
his home before he could depart for the...
Technology: Friend Or Foe?
What It Means To Be “Smart” In Self-Storage By Pete Frayser In decades past, the word “smart” was
not a term that puzzled many people....
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5 Reasons to Use Accounting Software for Your Self Storage Business
Tracking your self storage facility's cash flow can be daunting, but 64% of business owners do their own bookkeeping...
Three Considerations for Automation in Your Self-Storage Facility
“Automation” has been a buzzword in the self-storage industry for quite some time. But, with so many options out...
21 Self Storage Marketing Ideas for Owners & Operators
Self storage is a great business to be in. In fact, 2020 data shows that nearly 1 in 10...
All About Bluetooth Low Energy
Since its inception in the mid-1990s, Bluetooth technology has evolved into an effective
application for use in access control security....
Why Your Self Storage Facility Needs an Integrated Payment System
Electronic Payment Options Transform the Self Storage Industry
Businesses in every industry are making the move to electronic payment options,...
