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Tidy Up Your Clutter With A Self Storage Unit

If you are wishing to tidy up the clutter in their homes, utilizing a self storage unit is a cost effective way to accomplish this goal. Offering many benefits over storing items in your garage, the advantages of a domestic self-storage unit are many. While there are several options, some of the top choices are companies that offer various sizes of units as well as both domestic and business storage solutions.

As the holidays tick ever closer, the time to get rid of the clutter in your home has arrived. One of the most straightforward and effective ways to accomplish this is through the use of a self storage unit. With modern amenities like advanced security and climate controlled spaces, there are few better ways to safely store seasonal goods. When you consider the collective value of the goods being stored, both in terms of financial value and sentimental value, these items deserve to be better protected. When the garage becomes a storage location for everything except the family car, alternate options should be considered and pursued.

When using a high quality self storage facility, there are many advantages available that can create additional incentive to getting organized. Many organizations will provide their customer with competitively priced packing materials, trolleys, and forklift services. Furthermore, for those who need help transporting their possessions to and from the facility, many of these companies offer van services to compliment the storage solutions they provide. Overall, the amenities offered by self storage companies are comprehensive and offer customers a significant advantage over the garage option.

Self storage can provide a nice solution to storage needs across a wide range of time periods as well. If you are in the midst of a move it might be a good idea to store the bulk of your furniture. That way your home can be staged for quicker and more efficient showings. Self storage provides an excellent solution. By allowing the homeowner to get rid of clutter in the living space, the shorter market-time and potential for higher sale price should more than offset the expense.

A storage facility is a great short term option to store seasonal materials that are only needed intermittently throughout the course of the year. From household decorations to winter and summer clothes a self storage unit can significantly increase available living space for a relatively moderate price. For families, in particular, this option may be of special interest.

Most individuals collect important documents, keepsakes, and memories over a course of years, but do not need to access these on a regular basis. For those who wish to safeguard these items, rather than part with them or risk their damage on a regular basis, self storage is an excellent solution. When the modern and advanced services these companies now offer are considered, regardless of the specific time frame needed, the use of self storage can have a positive impact.

About the Author
Nick Messe is president of Lead Frog LLC. Space Station provides all the storage facilities you would expect of a leading provider of domestic self storage. Self storage facilities include Slough self storage, and other locations in and around Windsor.

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Self Storage Units – Traditional Vs. Portable

By Jason Kay

At some point in everyone’s life they are faced with fact that they have too much stuff lying around and are in need of a self storage unit but which is best to go with, traditional or portable? While you can store your extra belongings in both there are certain advantages to going with a portable unit as opposed to going with a traditional unit.

Here are some of the advantages you will find with storing your stuff in a portable storage unit as opposed to the traditional way:

•Convenience: This is probably the biggest advantage. When you store your things at a traditional storage unit you have to own a truck, rent a truck, or borrow a truck from a friend in order to get your stuff to the storage unit. This can be an unwelcomed hassle. With a portable storage unit however, the portable storage unit company that you decide to go with brings the storage unit right to you and you can then fill it up at your leisure with no time constraints whatsoever.

•No driving: Not only does the portable storage unit company drop off your storage unit to you, they also pick it up when you have filled it up and take it to their climate controlled warehouse where you can store it for as long as you need to. Because they drop off the storage unit and then pick it up that means that you have to do absolutely no driving at all.

•Helps the moving process: many times people will store a number of items because they are moving to a new home and simply don’t know what they will keep and what they will sell or throw away. Once the move is complete and you decide you want to tackle the project of going through the storage unit you again have to either own a truck, rent a truck, or borrow a truck from a friend in order to get you stuff to your new place. Not so with a portable storage unit. When you are ready for your things, you simply call them and they will deliver you belongings to your new home and allow you to unload all the stuff when you want to. Then when the storage unit is empty, call them back and they will pick it up for you once again.

•Saves time: One thing you can never make more of and that is time. A portable storage unit may cost a bit more because they do all the driving, but if you think about all the time you will save, not to mention the gas money, it is still probably in your best interest to go with the portable storage unit.

All of this is not to say that the traditional storage units have no more use, but they have met their match. Unless you only plan on storing a few items that can easily and conveniently be transferred to a traditional storage unit by you, then getting a portable storage unit is really a no brainer.

Source: www.isnare.com

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Step 1: Substantially Reduce Your Costs

There are 2 ways to substantially reduce your costs.

A. You can maintain your current business process and reduce your costs within your existing model.

                    – or –

B.  You can change your business model.

 

The first thing most people look to do is ‘A‘, reducing their costs within their existing business model.  They do so because it is much easier to maintain the current busines process  rather than change it. Also this type of cost reduction usually provides results quicikly.

We have helped many companies reduce costs and improve effeciencies by providing them with better equipment, better solutions, and better pricing.

Although  ‘A‘ has provided successful and easily measurable reults we have also advocated to our clients that they seriously consider reviewing their current business model ‘B‘ in addition to ‘A‘. it is our belief that the business world is changing and will continue to do so at even a more rapid rate as technologies continue to develop. What once took 10 years to develop now takes 1 year or less. This rapid evolution in business development has also reduced the lifespan of business models. Unless you have a unique product or service that can not be duplicated you will be subject to these great forces of change.

As a result we have not only helped clients reduce their costs but also have helped reshape thier business model to further reduce costs, improve effeciencies and provide huge flexability to change with the rapidly changing business world.

We will be providing these business models on our website shortly.In the meantime if you like access to these models please feel free to contact us directly.

Next time we will take a look at Step 2 :  Maintain or improve customer service while reducing your costs

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How To Survive The Coming Economic Tsunami

The Stock Market is Going Up !

Banks are flush with Gov’t cash and are providing easy credit for business.

The worst is over !

Don’t believe this for a minute.

America is still losing over 500,000 jobs per month. Credit is getting tighter. Chrysler is bankrupt. G.M is next.

Yes these companies will be better off in the long as they emerge from bankruptcy protection, but what happens to the 40,000 employees that will be let go both in manufacturing and the dealership network. How will they replace their high wage and benefit package ?  Just as important what about the remaining workers who are having their wages and benefits  cut back ? Finally what about all the suppliers of these companies ? Will it be business as usual for them.? How will their employees be affected ? Are they going to spend at the same rate they have over the last few years ? Of course not. Would you?

What does this mean ?

The worst is yet to come.

Is your business ready ?

Those businesses that will survive and prosper in the new economic reality will have to:

1.   Substantially reduce costs

2.  Maintain or improve customer service despite reducing costs

3.  Reduce debt.

4.  Free up capital

5.  Reduce or eliminate long term obligations

6.  Reduce or eliminate variable costs that you do not control

7.  Remain flexible in order to expand or contract rapidly.

8.  Provide value added services for your clients

 

Stay tuned as we will show you how we can help you achieve all of the above noted goals and prosper during difficult economic times !

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Is The Worst Over ?

According to the US administration, the worst of the recession has passed.

Is this true ?

Not according to major economic indicators.

Unemployment, manufacturing, shipping volumes,exports,imports, and consumer confidence are at alarming levels.

What does this mean ?

It means that those companies who conduct themselves as though it is business as usual will be left outside looking in. Even worse many of them won’t survive  the current economic climate.

Who will survive and prosper ?

Those companies that will be able to reduce costs without reducing their ability to service their  customer. Those companies that can provide added value to assist their clients in being successful. Those companies that can remain flexible to expand and/or contract instantly.

Express Mobile Storage Solutions is here to assist you in all of the above areas.

Over the next few weeks we will outline in our blog the variety of areas where we can help you succeed immediately.

Stay tuned !