Social Media

12 Things I’m Doing With Social Media In 2012

Here’s a quick peek at what I’ll be up to social-media-wise in 2012.  Driving massive (by storage standards) customer reviews to Google Places. Getting more  of my stores and/or markets on Twitter (it’s not the biggest social network, but it’s the easiest to start with). Getting smart phones into the hands of my store managers. [...]

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Self Storage Twitter Chat Unleashed September 7th

Update: To be clear on the schedule  #StorChat will be held every Wednesday from 3:00 – 3:30 pm Central, starting on 9/7/2011.  If you can’t join us on 9/7/2011, then join us a following Wednesday and we’ll be glad you came! ———– Are you or any of your store managers on Twitter?  Do you want to [...]

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Your Two Year Self Storage Social Media Marketing Advantage

Here’s the gist of the video: Self Storage operators who are making a concerted effort to figure out Social Media Marketing today are getting a 2 year head start on most of their competition. Watch the video or read below for the details. Three reasons most people are going to go slow. History Staff Structure [...]

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Social Media For Self Storage Executives

In June 2011 I gave a presentation about social media to about 40 self storage executives. Here are the slides.  Just a small warning, if you missed the presentation  some of the slides might be a little difficult to understand without the verbal commentary. If you want to hear a similar presentation, I’ll be doing [...]

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Eye Popping Social Media Metrics Relevant to Self Storage

The good folks at the Texas Self Storage Association have invited me to speak at their Executive Retreat next week about social media.  I jumped in and started experimenting with social media just because my ‘gut” told me that it was more than a passing fad.  Alas, no one at an *Executive* Retreat really cares [...]

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Why I Waste Time Blogging

People ask me all the time why I spend time writing this blog and sharing my  ”secrets”. They want to know “What’s in it for me” especially since I’m not constantly selling webinars or in other ways asking you to open your wallet. So I thought I’d take a minute and give you a peek [...]

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