How to Create a Self-Storage Retail Store and Massively Accelerate Your Product Sales and Profit

Feb 11, 2017

As the self-storage industry evolves into a more retail-style business, it’s only natural that facilities expand their offerings beyond unit rentals. Here’s how to massively accelerate your retail sales.

Creating a Robust Self-Storage Retail Store Inventory, Design and Displays

Apr 27, 2016

Self-storage operators can provide customers with a total solution to their packing, moving and storage needs by offering a robust retail store. These guidelines will help you create organized, well-stocked displays that keep customers coming back...

Self-Storage Profit Centers 2016: Products and Services to Generate More Revenue

Mar 24, 2016

As self-storage evolves into more of a retail business, it's time for facility operators to think about synergistic products and services that can help them generate add-on revenue. This showcase highlights excellent profit centers that work well...

Author Mark Helm: Add-On Revenue Streams Can Add a Minimum of $250K in Self-Storage Property Value

Mar 22, 2016

Self-storage operators who refrain from implementing add-on profit streams not only miss out on elevating their breadth of services for customers, they’re missing an opportunity to increase the value of their asset by at least $250,000. In this...

Ancillary Products and Services Expand Self-Storage Earning Potential and Consumer Appeal

Nov 23, 2015

Self-storage operators wishing to differentiate themselves from competitors have begun to cast a wider net, looking for add-on products and services to appeal to consumers. Ancillary offerings allow storage businesses to create convenience and...

Creating a Retail-Sales Center for Your Boat/RV-Storage Customers

Aug 23, 2015

As a self-storage operator, you can make great ancillary income by offering boat and RV storage; but you can make even more money if you also sell products and supplies that appeal to your boat and RV tenants. Here are some products to carry in...

All Brands Vending Resources Releases 'Storage Supply Depot' for Self-Storage Operations

Aug 19, 2015

Vending-machine manufacturer All Brands Vending Resources Inc. has released the “Storage Supply Depot,” a vending machine designed to sell packing supplies and other retail products to self-storage customers. The machine is constructed to...

Self-Storage Profit-Makers: Ancillary Products and Services With Staying Power

Nov 28, 2014

Since self-storage came on the scene many decades ago, operators have experimented with ways to expand their product and service offering. Here are some that have proven their staying power for bringing in new customers, satisfying existing...

Self-Storage Marketplace SpareFoot Partners With Uboxes to Sell Packing Supplies

Nov 11, 2014

SpareFoot, an online marketplace for self-storage consumers, has partnered with Uboxes, a supplier of factory-direct moving boxes, to create a website where people can purchase packing supplies. SpareFoot users can now buy moving boxes and other...

Sunnyside Self Storage of British Columbia Launches Online Ordering for Moving/Packing Supplies

Aug 06, 2014

Sunnyside Self Storage of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, is now offering its local customers online ordering services for moving and packing supplies from the company’s catalog and will provide same-day delivery within a specific area. It’s...