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History of StorageMart

The founders of StorageMart are some of the most notable pioneers of the self-storage industry, with a presence in the storage business since 1974.

The principal founder set out on what would be the start of a storage legacy when he, his wife and 3 of their children took a family vacation to Texas. Hoping to create lasting memories in the Texas sunshine, the family was disappointed, to say the least, that it rained the entire time. So what do you do with 3 kids on vacation when the rain will not let up? Drive around looking for new business opportunities, of course.

The family happened upon a building lined with steel doors.  After several drives past it, they decided to stop in and see what the storage business was all about. After a chat with the owner there, this true entrepreneur bought the leasing rights to a Texas self storage site for 10 dollars.

When the family arrived back home in Columbia, Missouri, no time was wasted expanding the business and the family purchased their first self storage property in their hometown. Since that time, the family has bought and sold that original property 3 times, and has ownership of the site today.

StorageMart Today

StorageMart is a private, fully integrated real estate operation company with a focus on developing and acquiring self storage properties that make use of the newest security technologies and amenities in the industry.

StorageMart recently grew from 70 self-storage properties to over 130 stores by acquiring a Canadian storage company. Today, there are StorageMart locations in 14 States within the USA and 5 Provinces in Canada.

The company continues to expand with both American storage and Canadian storage facilities as it continues to take advantage of opportunities within the self storage industry to produce the greatest maximization of value.

Geography

PhoneSmart is your offsite sales force located in Columbia, Missouri and serves clients in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom as an inbound call center, quality assurance and mystery shopping provider, and self storage marketing and advertising consultant.

History of PhoneSmart

PhoneSmart began in late 2000 as an inbound call center to the self storage industry. The concept was that, by having a self storage sales force dedicated to answering the phones, the company would help local self storage facilities serve more customers. The mission of the company was to serve self storage owners by capturing missed phone calls and renting self storage units to client customers.

PhoneSmart approached self storage from a sales perspective and honed in on defining a sales script that became a cornerstone in developing the competitive sales edge in the self storage industry. Even still, they continue to lead the self storage industry in innovation.

As the success of PhoneSmart grew and they became more profitable to their clients, self storage owners began to consult with PhoneSmart about how to duplicate that success with their own self storage managers.

PhoneSmart grew into a larger a resource for self storage owners and consulting quickly developed into sales training and quality assurance services. Soon, PhoneSmart became a mystery shopping provider and sales training management company to self storage companies both large and small.

The combination of call center sales force, secret shopping company and sales training manager gave PhoneSmart a well rounded menu of services to self storage owners who were looking for that extra gusto behind their property management portfolio.

PhoneSmart Today

Almost a decade from its beginning, PhoneSmart now answers inbound phone calls to nearly a thousand self storage facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico and provides mystery shopping and quality assurance services to over three hundred and fifty self storage locations worldwide.

PhoneSmart also provides mystery shopping programs to industries outside the self storage niche, including senior living, apartment and condominium rental, hotel, banking, and telecommunications industries. Additionally, PhoneSmart offers quality assurance to call centers that specialize in any range of services.

The company facilitates sales training seminars and sales management programs to many self storage owners who are revamping their self storage company or building a self storage business from scratch.

PhoneSmart serves as a consultant to self storage companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

PhoneSmart also issues online publications that offer journals dedicated to self storage, secret shopping and property management topics. PhoneSmart web logs are ranked the highest among each industry and discuss relevant industry news and advice.

PhoneSmart Services

Call Center – The self storage call center is designed to answer rollover phone calls and capture missed phone calls before, during and after normal office hours. In fact, many call center clients elect to have 100 percent of their phone calls ring straight to the offsite sales force.

Quality Assurance – The Total Quality Assurance Services department at PhoneSmart offers a wide variety of employee monitoring, secret shopping, price shopping and competitor comparisons. All of these services are personally customized to meet the unique goals of any individual client.

Sales Training and Performance Management – PhoneSmart presents both traditional and out-of-the-box approaches to sales training for self storage managers. Everything from on-site seminars to role playing and one-on-one training can be combined or used separately to bring a team of property managers to a higher level of sales performance.

Consultation – PhoneSmart lends its experience with building a successful storage business from the ground up to help self storage investors create a turn-key operation with accelerated results.

Self Storage Marketing and Advertising – Self storage operators can learn, benefits and partner with PhoneSmart’s successful SEO guerilla marketing strategies to gain higher rankings among popular search engines and vertical self storage directories.

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