Automatic Credit-Card Payments
Automatic Credit-Card PaymentsTo take or not to take them... that is the question By Pamela Alton When a tenant first rents a unit from us, we often ask if he would like to pay his rent automatically each month by credit card. If he says "yes," we proceed to have ...More
October 1, 2000 Pamela Alton
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Priceless
Priceless Welcome mat for the front door: $8. Plant for the office counter: $12. A box of personalized pens, complete with your facility name, to distribute to prospective tenants: $300. Framing your first dollar earned: Priceless. We've all seen the popular MasterCard ...More
October 1, 2000 Teri L. Lanza
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Hmmm...Hmmm... Records Management?
Hmmm...Hmmm... Records Management?Deciding if it's a business for you By Cary F. McGovern Over the past few years, I have consulted with more than 200 self-storage operators concerning records management, which has had broad appeal with this industry. I receive at least a ...More
October 1, 2000 Cary F. McGovern
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Space-Age Designs, Part II
Space-Age Designs, Part IIBuilding self-storage for a new era By Victor Lopez The following is part two of a two-part series on the evolution of self-storage design and site-plan considerations for a new era. As you may recall from reading part one of this series, the ...More
October 1, 2000 Victor Lopez
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Rev Up Those Search Engines
Rev Up Those Search EnginesMore tips for marketing on the Internet By Michael Zervas Bigger is not necessarily better in the case of the World Wide Web. As the web continues to grow at a rate beyond all expectations, it is becoming increasingly challenging for those of us ...More
October 1, 2000 Michael Zervas
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'PerfectioNist' Heritage Defines Seattle-Tacoma Box Co.
'PerfectioNist' Heritage Defines Seattle-Tacoma Box Co. By Barry Morris With today's "new economy" dominated by businesses rooted in technology and other 20th-century breakthroughs, firms with origins in the 19th century and earlier are becoming increasingly ...More
September 1, 2000 Barry Morris
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Thoughts From the Road
Thoughts From the Road By Jim Chiswell This past summer provided me many unique opportunities. My consulting work, along with some personal travel, gave me the chance to criss-cross America's Heartland, mostly by car. The highways of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois ...More
September 1, 2000 Jim Chiswell
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When Lenders Disappear
At the huge International Council of Shopping Centers convention this past year in Las Vegas, one of the keynote speakers touted there may never be a downturn cycle or major recession in the economy because of a permanent abundance of capital and access to that capital. If ...More
September 1, 2000 R.K. Kliebenstein, with contributions from Neal Gussis
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Finance
S-Men
S-Men One of the summer's hottest entertainment phenomena, X-Men: The Movie, opened in theaters in July. The film is about a group of children born with an added "X-factor" attached to their genetic code, allowing them to perform extraordinary feats, such as ...More
September 1, 2000 Teri L. Lanza
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