Tis’ the season! Budget planning season! For self-storage operators, digital marketing is no longer optional or “nice to have.” It’s how future customers find you, compare prices, check availability, and ultimately decide where to rent. But budgeting and analyzing how much to spend and where to spend it, is where most operators get stuck. The good news? Creating a smart, data-driven digital marketing budget doesn’t have to be complicated. With a clear framework, the right ben

A few weeks back, we were giving a demo to a regional self storage operator when they leaned toward the screen, eyebrows raised, and asked the question we’ve now heard a dozen times: “Wait… so I don’t need to contact you to make these changes?” Followed by… “How do I know what’s working, do I wait for a report from you?” Self storage operators are used to an old model for how to handle marketing. An agency or outside “marketing person” who updates your ads, fixes your website

Search is evolving fast. AI-driven answers, changing consumer behavior, and Google’s shifting ad formats are reshaping how renters find self storage. We recently explored this topic and discussed it with self storage operators during several round tables at a few SSA events. Best way to answer some of these tough questions is to start digging into some data and start interpreting it! So check out the infographic below as well as some additional thoughts and ideas from the tea

We built a free tool designed specifically for self-storage operators: the Ad Campaign Benchmarking Calculator. The data in this tool isn’t based on broad, generic averages. It’s powered by real historical data from actual self-storage ad campaigns across multiple markets that we compiled into our own Storage Market Index. 

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