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Storage Business Opportunities For The Organized Franchisee
For the left-brained, super-organized business professional, the idea of clutter around the workplace or the home is a grim thought indeed, so a welcome idea for a new business opportunity may be a storage business. Storage franchises are much more than just storage rental facilities, there are franchises available for everything from closet systems to garage organization, and for the right entrepreneur with a knack for organization, these franchises can really help you clean up.

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Storage Business Opportunities For The Organized Franchisee
For the left-brained, super-organized business professional, the idea of clutter around the workplace or the home is a grim thought indeed, so a welcome idea for a new business opportunity may be a storage business. Storage franchises are much more than just storage rental facilities, there are franchises available for everything from closet systems to garage organization, and for the right entrepreneur with a knack for organization, these franchises can really help you clean up.
Introduction to Self Storage Development
Self storage has seen some dramatic changes over the last few decades it has been in existence, especially in the last 15 years. In 1993, there were approximately 21,300 self storage facilities in the United States. Today, that number has more than doubled, with industry experts reporting roughly 60,000 facilities. Those facilities comprise more than 1.7 billion rentable square feet of storage space.

Technology is So Passé … It’s All About Fashion
We looked at the stuff at CES...at CTIA...at NAB...at all the shows and media coverage. There was an epiphany (gotta love that word). The PC/CE/communications/content industry isn't about technology...it's fashion! It's what's hot...what's not. Notebooks...no netbooks...no smartphones...no ebooks...no tablets. Local storage...centralized storage...personal storage...cloud storage. Your next product, service can be hot, cold, dead in a month. We flip faster than skirts rise and fall. There are no bold , ah ha predictions here but at least you'll know why you change phones, computers (whatever) more often than you change cars. What's it gonna be tomorrow? Don't ask the buying public(s)..invent it!!!! -- borrowed from John Doerr (come on what do you think fashion is? Right creative borrowing!).

Building a Self Storage Facility
All Across the United States, entrepreneurs are talking about the self storage business. The word is out that investing in the mini storage business can be very profitable. And it’s not just the experienced investors that have their eye on the Self Storage Business prize. With lower building and management costs than virtually all other real estate investments and a failure rate of around 7 percent, the self storage industry is drawing first-time business owners and investors alike.

Self Storage Feasibility Studies
So you’ve decided to get into the self-storage business by developing your own Self Storage Facility. Well the first step should be to locate a viable parcel of ground to develop. However, many investors find that determining an adequate site is a little more difficult than they imagined, and perhaps, should be done with the aid of an independent third party. Why? Because a feasibility study, conducted by a professional, will provide an in-depth analysis of the location to determine if it is viable for Self-Storage.
Content … Keeping the Old Gals Around for a Few More Years
It was great to see all the new capture, production toys at NAB. The camera, production board, software had the content people -- Katzenberger, Moonves (CBS), Carey (News Corp), other major/minor players -- huddling around all their new high def and 3D stuff every minute the show floor was open. When the lights went out and all that content was sent back to the lowly under appreciated storage systems. The same was true of the consumer/prosumer capture/production products that were displayed. The only difference is the storage devices were smaller. In addition to 1-5GB solutions lots of people use the more compact 500GB-1TB storage units that incorporated advanced security technology. Cameras, software, people get their names in lights but when was the last time you saw a 5TB storage unit listed on the film's credits.

Storage -- Worry About It the Day After Tomorrow
We finished this analysis on storage types/applications over the weekend and Apple decided to finally talk about all their new devices and everyone (we mean everyone) jumped on the tablet bandwagon. We'll look at the area shortly but right now we can only say every bit of storage folks can make/ship is being used...then some! Right now let's look at the leading storage offerings -- flash, hard drive, clould (don't let em kid you the cloud is still hard drive). But only you can determine which storage option is best for you in each of your applications -- work in progress, valuable, super valuable, irreplaceable. Weigh the costs/risks and store accordingly. Don't wait till the Day After Tomorrow.

Self Storage Investing Webinars Can Hold Valuable Tips
Self storage investing can be a difficult industry to get into. As with any real estate investing, it can be overwhelming at first to even begin to learn about all the rules, laws, and regulations that come with owning a self storage property. However, there are several great resources online that can help individuals learn about buying their first self storage property. Besides e-books and white papers about self storage investing, there are also webinars that can be great resources.
Content … Big, Beautiful, Ready to Sail
You know the environmentalist tale about a butterfly in the rain forest affecting.. Same is true of overwatering in Thailand affecting PC manufacturers, users around the globe. The Big 3 HD folks are slowly bouncing back (give em 3 quarters) but it made lots of folks think even harder about systems with solid state memory (SSDs). We all knew they were faster, lighter, cooler running, easier on batteries. Now the new Win ultrabooks and Mac Air are looking even better because what the heck you don't need all that big storage to take with you and the prices are looking pretty darn good. For the rest of your stuff...use the cloud. Us? We "need" the storage so you go right ahead and leave us behind.

Partner Portal Navigation - How to Improve and Increase Partner Usage and Resulting ROI
Most manufacturers today provide their dealer partners with websites and web applications to assist them in their business. There can be systems for sales and pricing, parts ordering and tracking, warranty processing, online training, document storage and retrieval, and other unique applications developed by the company's IT group. But what you may not hear or see through surveys is whether your dealers are internally complaining about the "systems" and "websites" and "extranets" that they "must use" when they do business with you. And you know when they tell you "you're difficult to do business with," you have a problem.
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