Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

Sarah Little offers a bit of relief from the heat.

Welcome to PhoneSmart’s secret shopping blog, your peek into the secret shopping world.

Last week Missouri had one of the hottest weeks so far this year. Temperatures rose above 100 and it felt much hotter. Severe storms left much of the St. Louis area without electricity. Without air conditioners, many families opted to stay at hotels until conditions improved. Stepping outside for a moment lead to sweaty shirts and panting dogs. I can’t imagine if I had to move my belongings into a storage unit.

The labor of it alone would be enough to risk overheating, and then add to that a hot steamy storage unit… No thanks! When Mother Nature has it in for your storage profits you have to find a way to outwit her.

If your facility boasts climate controlled units, be sure to make that a key point when talking to your customers during the dog days of summer. If you don’t have climate control units, keep a cooler with chilled bottled water and offer it to tenants moving in. The courtesy and thoughtfulness is sure to make you their favorite self storage provider.
If it’s been raining cats and dogs but your facility has a loading bay, then be sure to advertise that to your prospective tenants.

Make your facility more appealing than the other guy by offering perks that make a tenant’s move in less toiling.