A Dead Simple Way To Get More Referrals That You’ve Overlooked For Years

Here’s the punchline… Ask for a tour. How long have you been working with local apartment complexes and local businesses hoping they will refer business to you? As long as you can remember? When was the last time you asked one of them to give you a tour of their community or place of business? […]

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9 Questions To Increase Employee Engagement And Productivity

Big businesses looking to fatten the bottom line often cut head count as a way to reduce costs. For big companies making cuts is often the easiest short-term move. On the other hand you rarely see big companies in a pinch to improve profits look first at improving their employee’s skills, engagement, or their buy-in […]

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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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Reduce Your Anxiety With This Networking Self-Introduction

You Like The People Who Come To You Its essential to be able to work well with your existing customers.  The problem is that there are lots of times when having the ability to initiate the relationship is important.  I’m thinking of networking functions like chamber mixers, business expos, tweet-ups, charity events, etc. I give you […]

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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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Bedhead Book Review: Marketing in the Age of Google

If you are a self storage owner, operator,  or executive who has responsibility for marketing your self storage location, then you should read this book. If you have a person or company that does “SEO” for you, good.  You should still check out this book because it will help you get more out of them. […]

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