The Ideal Manager?
Who is the ideal self-storage manager? The answer to this question is complex, depending on many facility-specific factors: job duties, the demographics of the customer base, the personalities of the rest of the team, etc. It’s a highly subjective, debatable subject, and ...More
November 9, 2007 Cheryl Kelley
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Marketing Limelight: New-Hire Integration
The integration of a new hire into your organization should start the minute the person reports for work on his first day. Successful integration of employees will increase business performance, minimize turnover and reduce recruiting expenses.With new-hire programs, ...More
November 9, 2007 Clay Whitaker
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Insurance Insights: Employee Freedom … to Succeed to Deceive?
If you’re a typical self-storage owner, you’re operating a successful business, and your success can be credited to many factors. Careful hiring of facility staff is one, and monitoring onsite business practices is another. Good employees are essential to a service industry ...More
November 9, 2007 Scott Lancaster
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ALL ABOUT STORAGE
All self-storage owners must decide between self-managing a site or hiring a management company. How will you decide the best direction for your facility? Many lenders and partnership agreements require an experienced management company to operate facilities they finance. ...More
April 2, 2007 Cheryl Kelley
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Interviewing Obstacle Course
Editor’s Note: The following article is for informational purposes only and should not be substituted for legal counsel. As a business owner, you probably already know about laws against discriminating against a person because of sex, race, color and creed. However, did you ...More
March 1, 2007 Tredd Barton
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High-Performance Leasing and Your Staff
These days, self-storage competes on a very aggressive playing field, and a winning lineup of storage specialists is the most critical aspect of the game. Mom-and-pop squads, once the dynamic duos of the industry, have been replaced by teams of high-performance players. ...More
December 1, 2005 Greg Call
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Workers’ Compensation
Workers’ compensation is designed to ensure that employees injured or disabled while on the job are properly compensated, negating the need for related lawsuits. It also provides benefits for dependents of workers killed by work-related accidents or illness. Some laws also ...More
January 1, 2005 Amy Brown
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