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Hello to those of you in self storage and welcome to the Self-storage blog, our diary of the self storage industry.

If you are a self storage insider, and interested in self storage trends, you should keep your eye on our storage blog.
Some days we reveal self storage secrets. These are based on lessons we learn in our call center, which handles thousands of calls related to the self storage business.

The storage business is an interesting one to be involved with, as it ebbs and flows with the economy with a leveling component. Peolpe need to store in good times and bad. According to the self storage association, the typical client owns a single family home and uses storage as an extra closet, garage and store room.

However, we do see sales increase during moving season, student rush and times of disaster. So our sales techniques need to be able to help people in a variety of situations.

As a business blog in general and a self storage diary in particular, we tend to share general impressions of the business climate as well as specific issues that impact our self storage industry.

The busy moving season is about to come to an end, however if our projections hold true, we will see a more gradual decline in demand than last year. We base this in part on the number of calls we are starting to get for October. In years past, we did not start seeing October requests until well into September. The rise in home sales, the continuing deployments of military units and an economy that is moving along in some sectors and sputtering in others seem to be the influencing factors.

Don’t forget to come to our booth at the SSA show next week in Las Vegas.

Bye for now, Tron

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