by Mark Helm | Feb 26, 2021 | Self Storage Management
Last week I introduced some ideas about my opinion concerning the real source of innovation in the self storage industry. I don’t think it is all the new, shiny, tech solutions to running the business. I think it is the mindset, the thinking we use to approach how we...
by Mark Helm | Feb 19, 2021 | Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Management, Self Storage Mindset
We hear a lot about innovation in the self storage industry. At least for me, I immediately jump in my mind to new, shiny, tech solutions to running the business and interacting with customers, vendors, or creating deal-flow to analyze. But, as I began to really think...
by Mark Helm | Feb 5, 2021 | Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Management
You are bringing on new self storage space for lease. In my opinion, this is the riskiest proposition there is today for the small investor in the self storage business. However, it is usually part of our business strategy today, with prices being where they are....
by Mark Helm | Jan 29, 2021 | Self Storage Management
Here is a term you will hear more and more of in the self storage business in the next year or so, “Practical Automation.” For us smaller owners and investors, it can be the difference between long-term success or not. New Shiny Objects The tendency for humans appears...
by Mark Helm | Nov 13, 2020 | Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Management
I was recently attending a virtual (obviously written in 2020) Business Summit meeting, and one of the sessions was entitled How To grow Your Business. I can insert “self storage” into that, and everything remains exactly the same. My observations about people have...
by Mark Helm | Oct 16, 2020 | Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Management
We have been exploring the current challenges our self storage company is focused on to keep our self storage companies going strong over the next year or so. Let’s complete this series. If you want to, you can review Episodes 263,264, 265 , 266 ,267 here. As a...
