ISS World Expo Education

This session discusses critical acquisition and development factors including how to examine a target market, site-selection considerations, demographics, due-diligence tools and financial projections.

This session will help you select the optimum model for a particular site to maximize the potential of a self-storage property. Get insight to building styles, design trends and innovative techniques.

This session addresses criteria for ensuring a self-storage project’s site design and layout are an appropriate fit for the market and provides advice for maximizing square footage, unit mix and more.

This session helps guide you through the initial procedure to gain jurisdictional approval and provides strategies for securing the entitlements and permits you need to build your dream self-storage facility.

This session examines factors related to self-storage climate control, including business benefits to income and property value. It also addresses costs and the proper installation and use of equipment.

This session examines factors that go into self-storage site selection including characteristics of a workable property and factors that may prevent a location from being a good fit for storage development.

Learn about best practices and cost-effective technologies that can add sophistication to your self-storage security program. Get tips on using forensic data, license-plate recognition, flow counts and more.

While large self-storage companies possess certain operating advantages, independent owners can carve out healthy market share by implementing smart strategies related to marketing and money management.

Are you leveraging competitor information to benefit your self-storage business? Learn how touring and promoting referrals with competitors and other tools can be used to market your points of differentiation.

Learn how to get the most from selling moving and packing supplies with a better understanding of retail merchandising, using a plan-o-gram, and implementing strategic pricing and improved sales techniques.