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Self Storage Researching Behaviors Keep Changing: How & What You Can Do to Keep Google Business Profile Working FOR You

Posted May 19, 2022 by G5

Find yourself browsing for your next vacation getaway? And then that leads you to looking up trendy restaurants in that area…which leads you to looking up that one recipe from that one foodie blog you follow? Before you know it, you’ve viewed or clicked or scrolled multiple websites across multiple platforms, and probably read at […]

ICYMI: ISS | Crack the Code: The Right Combination of Self Storage Marketing Channels to Maximize Return

Posted April 21, 2022 by G5

If you’re a self storage marketer and you’re reading this, congratulations, you’re in the right place. You’ve probably at one point or another had an Eminem-lyric feeling while trying to justify your marketing efforts. You know what we’re talking about…palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy…we’ve all been there too.  When marketing is a […]

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Self Storage State of the Industry | H1 2022

Posted March 8, 2022 by G5

We believe that your marketing is only as sound as the data that backs it up. We get that this can be tricky…especially when data might mean something nationally, but your properties are in certain metros, meaning you need data that represents the metros where you’re actually marketing. Good news: We have you covered where […]

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Rank Higher: How Content and SEO Work Together

Posted February 9, 2022 by G5

We get it, there’s always a new platform, or fancy new shiny marketing thing that you “should” be doing, optimizing, leveraging…but, here’s the deal. Marketers have limited time and energy, so rather than skimming the surface, you need to figure out how various tactics align with your business goals. So, if you’re content-marketing-curious, this one’s […]

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Crush Your Marketing Goals

Posted January 18, 2022 by G5

We know that marketing is a place where goal-setter vision meets goal-getter action. And, we like to do everything we can to support you on your way to marketing greatness. So, just to double-check that we are all on the same page. You’ve already downloaded and worked through our Goal and Intention Setting Journal? And, […]

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Find Your Self Storage Marketing FOCUS

Posted November 29, 2021 by G5

Listen, we get it. Perhaps it’s that you have limited time and resources. Or, maybe it’s that you’re constantly being asked to justify your marketing budget and ROI to executives. Or, here’s another favorite, is your team described as small, but mighty? Which, as we all know, is a nice way to avoid saying a […]

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Marketing Strategies to Leverage in Hot Markets

Posted November 10, 2021 by G5

We know, that you know, self storage has weathered * gestures broadly * all of this remarkably well. Occupancies are high, rents are increasing, and business is good.  (Which, let’s take a moment to remember early 2020 when it felt like the world as we knew it was ending. The market opportunity that self storage […]

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Top Website Trends of 2022

Posted October 22, 2021 by G5

Have you ever visited a company’s website, only to think “Man…this looks like it was designed around the same time I made my middle school myspace page with blinking stars and rainbow background.” Just us? coolcoolcool.  You don’t want this to be your “dazzling” first impression.  We know that you DO want to start thinking […]

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State of the Industry: Four Self Storage Need-to-Knows Made Simple

Posted September 3, 2021 by G5

Here’s the deal, over the last year there have been a lot of loud, noisy, headlines. We believe data tells stories, and helps marketers and investors make informed decisions. That’s why we dug up data from G5, the 2021 Self Storage Almanac, and the 2020 Self Storage Demand study to share relevant, timely, industry data. […]

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Keeping Up With Website Accessibility

Posted July 18, 2021 by G5

Want to know something that’s harder to keep up with than the Kardashians when they’re no longer on E!? Keeping up with website accessibility.  We asked G5 subject matter experts — Ben Steward, VP Revenue and Thomas Lavallee, Sr. Director of Compliance — to break down the legal and technical landscape of website accessibility to […]

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