European Opportunities

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When you look at the numbers of users and the number of self storage facilities per capita, Europe looks pretty good as a place to do business. Of course, going to a country you are not that familiar with and adjusting to new regulations, new ways of doing things and new customs, makes things a little more interesting and challenging than you might like. You owe it to yourself to take a closer look at Europe. It is developing as an economic powerhouse.

I am going to take advantage of a seminar given by the European Union Center at the University of Missouri, Columbia. On June 9 and 10, The EU Center will hold a trade forum in Kansas City focused on helping small and medium sized companies do business with EU countries. It seems to be geared more toward export industries, but I guess you can consider Self Storage to be an export. The US has been a leader for the last 25 years, even though recently several European operators have been putting their own stamp on the storage business model. European companies continue to look to the US for hints and patterns to use in their models. For more information go to www.eu.missouri.edu .

For those of you who watch call volume patterns, this Memorial Day weekend was pretty much what we expected and today is very nice, We had our year-to-date best half hour period of phone calls this morning. I hope some of those leads and reservations went to you.

Don’t forget to enter the contest to win a Gold registration package for the Miami ISS conference in October.

bye for now, Tron

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