Mid-week lulls

I don’t know how business has been for you today, but we are in our mid-week, mid month anti-climax. After having several very good days for rental activity, we are seeing primarily non-rental calls today. The volume has been good, though. This is normal self storage trend activity. Early in busy season many renters get their phone calls done early in the week. The mid week sees more people calling about their past due rent or people calling about truck rentals. Trucks are hard to come by as things get busy, as you well know. This means people are making a lot of phone calls trying to find a truck to rent. So we get to talk to them. Then later in the week the people who like waiting until the last minute will call about needing a storage unit this weekend. So Thursday will be pretty good and Friday will be busy with rental activity again. Our PhoneSmart call center reps get used to the early week action and are always disappointed by the mid-week lull. It gives us time to catch our breath and get ready for the weekend. Those of you who have been reading my self storage blog are probably not newcomers to the world of blogs. But it looks like self storage secrets are not the only secrets loose in the blog world. I saw a piece in the Economist Magazine today that is all about how a blogger in Minnesota is taking down the Canadian government by writing about the testimony in a Canadian political trial. I heard on the radio how the Chinese government is trying to delete any blogs, discussion boards and emails that have anti-Japanese messages in them. I guess blogs are making an impact. I’d like to hear from you about some of your impressions and reactions to some of my entries. In the mean time I am finishing up some programming for a new client who is giving us a few stores to answer for. It is a good time of year to get started. We will send out a lot of leads over the next few months. Bye for now, Tron.

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