Is it summer already? With final exams and summertime plans, the month of May promises to be frantic. Fortunately, SpareFoot is making college finals and move-out season fun by giving away The Ultimate Mini-Fridge on Facebook! One lucky student will win a retro-inspired fridge designed by Nostalgia Electrics, decorated with custom SpareFoot decals and loaded with Monster energy drinks!
As SpareFoot has grown, we’ve been able to send more and more reservations to the facilities listed on our advertising network. More reservations means more tenants for facilities, but it also means that end-of-month statements that we send clients are longer and much less fun to reconcile. You’re probably no stranger to our move-in verification emails (with subject line: Did _____ Move In?) that we send the day after a tenant is scheduled to move into your facility. Here’s why we send them and why they’re making our clients’ lives easier!
From 1991 to 1999, Tim Allen–familiar to moviegoers as the voice of Buzz Lightyear from “Toy Story”–starred in a TV sitcom called “Home Improvement.” Allen’s amusing and self-assured character, Tim Taylor, hosted a fictional TV show called “Tool Time.”
We were horrified to see the destruction caused by the fire and explosion Wednesday in West, TX. This disaster was particularly heartbreaking because it came in the same week as the Boston Marathon bombing. SpareFoot’s office is about 120 miles southwest of West, which is why this most recent tragedy hits especially close to home.
AUSTIN, Tx.— In a move that toes the line of innovation, tech startup SpareFoot announced it will add prosthetic feet to its self-storage marketplace offering. The cutting-edge prostheses feature exclusive transtibial technology developed to serve the millions of Americans who suffer moving-related injuries annually.
The idea has legs, according to biomechanics expert Donovan Sherkofsky of the Real Estate Medical Research Center:
“With its self-storage industry expertise, SpareFoot is a shoe-in to corner the underserved market of those who accidentally drop heavy boxes on themselves during a move.”
Moving for household or business reasons is at the heels of elevator repair when it comes to high Amputation Risk Level— “we’re talking like an 11.5,” Sherkofsky said.
SpareFoot began cobbling these plans together last April, when Founder and CEO Chuck Gordon considered why the sole purpose of SpareFoot was to make finding storage units easy for customers. That wasn’t enough.
“Prosthetics felt like a natural extension of our brand,” Gordon said. “We’re putting our best you-know-what forward into this kick-ass new venture.”
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The SpareFoot team is heading to Vegas for the ISS Expo, and we’re beyond excited. Will you be there? Let’s meet up! We love working with you, and always like to see you in person. I promise your trade show will be more valuable and fun if you do at least one of these:
Austin’s mantra is “Keep Austin Weird,” so it’s only fitting that SpareFoot would follow suit–after all, our pin-up storage calendar is a definite first for the industry. Thus it should come as no surprise to anyone that we love weirdness in all aspects of our life, most of all in storage. After a customer moves into their storage unit, we like to send a follow-up survey with questions pertaining to their overall experience. This time around, we asked our customers, “Did anything funny, interesting or odd happen when you moved into your unit?” Here are some of the best responses we got:
[ by Teresa Tribolet, StorageUnitAuctionList.com ]
According to the Self Storage Association (SSA), the self-storage business generated more than $22 billion in annual US revenues in 2011, with more than 49,000 self-storage facilities in the United States. There are approximately 58,500 self-storage facilities worldwide, with over 1,000 down under in Australia and more than 3,000 in Canada, our polite, but mispronouncing neighbors to the north.
Over the past few months, SpareFoot has tried to become more than just a self-storage finder. When news of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy reached us, we wanted to do everything we could to help the victims. When we rolled out our offer of a free month of self-storage for hurricane victims, we asked our customers to share their Sandy stories. The response we have received from victims so far have been equally touching and inspiring, and shows just how widespread the devastation caused by the hurricane has been.
[ by Elizabeth Jespersen ]
Last month, SpareFoot released the first edition of the Storage Trends Quarterly report. The cool thing about self-storage industry performance – yes, there’s really something cool about this – is how it lines up with larger economic trends. After all, moving and education are among the biggest reasons people invest in self-storage— two important indicators of the economy’s overall well-being. So, what do all of our numbers and diagrams about storage really mean from a big-picture perspective?
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