Hacking Self Storage

Simon Webb is the Managing Director of Simon Webb Digital Marketing. He founded Blue Skies Photography and worked as a photographer and marketer. He also co-founded RedFest Bristol, the largest free arts festival in Bristol, bringing 20,000 people & families to high-quality music, performance, and dance.   On today's Podcast   02:13 – Getting to know Simon Webb 04:16 – Simon's ideal client 04:56 -...

Hey,  So ive been away in Centre Parcs this last week but the facilities ran perfectly in my absence. In fact we had a great week!  Enjoy my week in numbers  Dean

Angus  Burnett is the current Director and Co-Founder of Metro Storage. He started Metro Storage with his brother Simon in 2008 and has been operating Self-Storage businesses in the UK since 1998. Since opening, he now runs 9 self-storage stores in the UK and he also had been on the board of Directors of the National Trade Body - The Self Storage Association for 5 years.  Angus has been an active...

Tough old week ... Website issues really effected our quotes this weeks but its a great reminder that we should check and test the customer journey. Thankfully we picked up on the issue within 24 hours  Have an awesome week  Dean :-)

John McGlynn started his first company as a hobby while at University. Its core focus is now annuity revenue commercial property ventures such as Storage Vault. He has other significant investments in General Property and Development and Strategic Land Acquisition.  The other non-core investments he has is Mining, Banking, Electronic Payments, Healthcare and Longevity. He also specializes in Self...

Hey,  Very interesting week ... Great week in terms of move ins ... Great week in terms of reservations but a bad week in terms of move outs ... We lost over 1500 square foot.  Enjoy the episode :-) Dean 

Hey,  I really loved speaking to Ollie. He is a very prominent and respect man in the storage industry and after speaking to him its clear to see why.  We speak about buying and selling facilities and even talk about growing vegetables  Enjoy  Dean

This week has been a tough week with only 4 New Move Ins and 8 reservations  Enjoy the episode  Dean :-)

It was awesome to speak to this guys. They are bringing business sense from other industries and applying it to self storage ... With great success Enjoy  Dean  

Its been a great week for Store More ... Best week since August. I touch on my keynote speech for the upcoming virtual summit where I talk about a bad review costing us £30,000 ... I know wow!! Scary stuff Anyway ... take a listen and let me know your thoughts on the episode deanbooty@icloud.com Loads of man love  Dean :-)   

Ryan Kemili is the Business Manager at Stock N Lock Self Storage Ltd. He's also the UK Manager of the Year. He took a facility for Stock N Lock Self Storage from a monthly turnover of £30,000 to over £60,000.   On today's podcast:   4:17 – Knowing Ryan Kemili 6:15 - How did Ryan get into the Self Storage industry 8:40 – What does Ryan love about the Self Storage industry 10:39 – What Ryan consider...

A look back at the last 7 days in the self storage industry.  Massive week on the figures, a very positive weekly report  On today's Podcast 1:20 - Let's start with what have I been doing this week 4:30 – Geoff Ramm 5: 27 – The Starbucks 7:10 – My takeaways of the week 10:04 – Q uote from Richard Branson 10:30 –Who's coming up on the podcast this week 13:27- My Week in number (Reservations, Conver...

Katie is driving force behind Storage Boast ... The winners of the 2019 Independent Self Storage Facility of the year.  Katie Vost is the Operations Director at Storage Boost. She has 14 years of experience in the Self-Storage industry. She's also responsible for developing a startup business into a successful, award-winning retail operation with several outlets (Storage Boost). She played a major...

Love doing these ... Not a great week for reservations or figures in general but a great and enjoyable week all the same! 2 big takeaways for me that I think you will love .. Thought provoking .. Well for me anyway :-) Enjoy  Dean 

Wow ... I really let my hair down in this podcast .... I went all in!  Hopefully you will stick around to the very end as I have some motivational content that I believe not only will help your personal life but also your work life.  Let me know what you think ... deanbooty@icloud.com Enjoy  Dean  

Emma is an acquisitions and development manager at Storage King. She has been part of the company since 2011. Emma is married, has one and a half year old daughter and has another one on the way. Also they have two dogs called Oscar and Annie. On today's podcast 1:06 – How Emma became an acquisitions manager? 2:51 – What Emma loves about the industry 3:28 – Emma's #1 superpower 4:08 - What's the b...

I loved speaking to Fred in this episode and im sure listening will get something out of this episode.  Fred is a multiple award winning self storage professional, with experience ranging from start-up to successfully building and managing assets for third parties. A former Chairman of the SSA UK & Vice President of FEDESSA Enjoy  Dean

I love these episodes, we strip down my weekly figures. We go through - Quotes Move ins Reservations Conversions  SQ FT In SQ FT out  Where the quotes came from  Trues Period Revenue  Book corner ... A belting book this week My take away for the week I hope you guys enjoy this episode as much as I did recording it  Enjoy  Dean

I loved speaking to Edward ... really informative and experienced!   Edward Howard  has been in the self-storage industry for over 12 years. At the age of 15, he started a business selling personalised car numbers, buying motorbikes, scooters and then cars that led him to work in his brother's property company. He was also led to an internet café business and on 2007, he opened his own self-storag...

Dave Davies  is an accomplished self-storage professional w ith 19 years industry experience -- 17 years with Safestore PLC at Executive board level. Joining at 15 stores and 40 employees, as a member of the management buy-out team in 2004 and the IPO team in 2008. He's p assionate about self-storage, the people who work in it and the customers who use it. H is key to a successful self storage bus...

Ok so this is the first solo episode and boy go I go in to a lot of detail I go in to - Quotes  Reservations  Move ins  Conversions Van Hire Where the quotes came from  SQ FT Moved in... SQ FT Moved out % of the facility full What books im reading  Lastly my take away of the week  Loved doing this episode ... Hopefully you chaps will get something out of it as well  Enjoy  Dean

Travis is an awesome guy and very very knowledgeable regarding self storage. I loved this chat with him before our talk at The European Self Storage Conference. Great guy, great chat! Travis Morrow is the Chairman and CEO of the Store Local Corporation. He is also the president of national self storage On today's podcast 0:09 – Knowing Travis Morrow 1:32 – The Store Local 3:47 - How Travis got in...

Wow!!! So much gold in this podcast ... Get a pen and paper and just enjoy listening to Paul Whittaker! Paul has worked for four operators, including a national as well as three independents. His current position is director of Sure Store. He has a wonderful wife and   four children which keeps very very busy. On today's podcast 1:53 - Is there a big difference between national one and independent...

I am so happy and excited to have Rennie on the podcast! Rennie Schafer is the chief executive officer at the Self Storage Association UK and also the CEO of the Federation of the European Self-Storage Association.  On today's podcast 0:11 – Knowing Rennie Schafer 0:53 - How did Rennie Schafer get into Self Storage Industry. 1:47 – The 1# he consider as superpower and where he expert in. 2:21 - Bi...