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Making More Money with Your Online Self-Storage Auctions

Online self-storage auctions have become the industry standard, transforming the way self-storage operators process their [...]

Dealing With Demanding Customers

Who’s Pulling Your Strings? Over the years, I’ve had a variety of managers—many different types, [...]

Falling Occupancy – What Can You Do?

We need to discuss the current state of the self-storage industry in relation to falling [...]

Understanding Self-Storage Manager Compensation

Experience Matters! When considering a job in self-storage and contemplating today’s self-storage manager compensation rates, [...]

Six Critical Telephone Sales Skills

Throughout the five steps of SkilCheck’s Telephone Sales Evaluations, GREETING, INQUIRY, COUNSELING, INVITATION, AND CLOSING, [...]

SkilCheck’s Free Self-Storage Manager Training

While I was at a recent Self-Storage Association conference, I received several comments about our [...]

The Importance of Working on Your Sales Skills in a Difficult Storage Market

Great Sales Skills Help Every Aspect of Store Operations Improving sales skills is essential for [...]

Self-Storage Late Fees…to Waive or Not to Waive

There Are Different Types of Self-Storage Fees In self-storage, there are various types of fees [...]

Mystery Shops Graded by People…Not AI

First and foremost, SkilCheck has in-house evaluators—real people who have listened to, graded, and given [...]

RV Storage Mystery Shops are Vital in this Industry

The folks at Toy Storage Nation are experts in the RV/Boat storage sector and are [...]