From the 2024 ISS World Expo: Spartan’s Mike Scott Offers Sound Advice on Self-Storage Career Advancement

If you’ve reached a point in your self-storage career where you feel ready for a new challenge, you may be excited but also a bit afraid and unsure where to begin. It can feel like an intimidating journey. Do you know your desired trajectory? Where should you seek opportunities? What skills do you need and how will you acquire them? In this video interview recorded at the 2024 Inside Self-Storage World Expo, Michael Scott of Spartan Investment Group addresses these questions and talks about the steps you should take today to prepare for your next position. Having this plan in place can also be extremely motivating, and he explains why.

Scott joined Spartan, which operates the FreeUp Storage brand, three years ago as a revenue analyst and is now the company’s revenue operations manager. His ongoing research is helping the company develop its revenue-management strategy. Before previously spent time in data-analytics roles across the real estate services and mineral-rights industries.

Read more about the 2024 ISS World Expo in this article recapping the event.