What other kind of add-on businesses can complement a self-storage business?
Usually a self storage facility provides additional services like movers, packing, and even sales of storage materials like plastic sheets, protective padding, boxes, and so on. These are the basic products and services customers often look out for so that they do not need to visit more than just a single store for all of their storage needs.
Well, now you’re getting me really excited because that’s what our company has been working on over the last few years is to find store-within-a-store concepts to make self storage operations more profitable, and we’ve identified some key businesses that work in nice combination with self-storage. One of them is pack and ship, another is records management, we’re working with a national provider of propane cylinder exchanges, we have a relationship with Add-It, which is an eBay seller that actually helps to set up auctions, that’s a great profit center for self-storage, and more importantly all of these products create commercial door swings which are what you’re looking for to increase that traffic at the self-storage store. Car washes make excellent co-locations with self-storage, just because they bring the exact same kind of traffic to the door that you want for self-storage. Is there software out there that’s dedicated for the management of self-storage? There are several self-sto
