Art Marcone, a self-storage consultant and long-time business manager/consultant, has developed a business-consulting package for self-storage facilities.

The new approach is particularly effective in addressing the challenges of diminished active demand for self-storage units and the reduced number of casual self-storage users during this soft economy, according to Marcone.

It’s essential to success in today's economy for self-storage business owners to refocus their energies and place them more fully on sales, marketing and customer service, says Marcone, who is now taking on a limited number of full-service management accounts in the southeast United States, and has begun consulting on operations and sales coaching.

Marcone has 15 years in the self-storage management arena and more than 20 years in domestic and international marketing management and consulting at IBM.

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