USstoragesearch.com Named “Best Website” by Inside Self Storage Readers

USstoragesearch.com, the leading self storage marketing website for the last seven years, was named "Best Website" in the 2011 Best of Business choice-opinion poll conducted by Inside Self Storage. Voting by Inside Self Storage readers took place on the Inside Self Storage website between May 31^st & June 30^th of this year.

Michael Kucera, President & Founder of USstoragesearch.com said "USstoragesearch.com couldn't be more excited to have our members and others within the storage community cast a vote for our website. We work extremely hard to continually improve our website while retaining the core components that have made USstoragesearch.com such an integral piece of so many storage operators' overall marketing plan. We are proud and extremely grateful for the industry's recognition of USstoragesearch.com."

USstoragesearch.com was one of the first online self storage directories and has grown to have more members than any other website in the storage industry. Originally started as a lead-generating website for self storage operators, USstoragesearch.com continues to provide its members with quality phone calls, e-mail leads and quote requests. In addition USstoragesearch.com recently launched its Self Storage Network and now powers many other leading storage domains like www.storage.com and www.StorageUnit.com. The USstoragesearch.com Self Storage Network allows storage facilities to secure tenants through online storage reservations. These reservations are secured by a credit-card deposit and lead to new tenant move-in rates of more than 90%.

For more than 20 years, Inside Self Storage has provided informational resources to self-storage owners, managers, developers and investors. Its educational offerings include a monthly magazine, bi-annual tradeshows, an extensive website, an education institute and Self-Storage Talk, the industry's largest online community. The Best of Business choice-opinion poll is conducted annually by Inside Self Storage and this year's winners will also be honored in a ceremony at the Inside Self-Storage World Expo in Las Vegas, March 14-16, 2012.

 

About USstoragesearch.com

USstoragesearch.com is a trusted storage partner; serving the storage industry with aggressive and cost-effective online Self Storage Marketing. Established in 2004, USstoragesearch.com is the self storage industry leader with the largest and longest standing storage directory with the largest member base, featuring over 18,000 member facilities. Storage customers using the USstoragesearch.com online reservation network, which includes high-quality partner sites like storageunit.com, www.findselfstorage.com, & storage.com, search real-time available storage units by facility location, unit size, property features and specials. Customers have an easy way to find, compare and securely reserve storage by credit card in minutes. These real-time reservations have been proven to convert to paying rentals for member facilities more than 90% of the time.

About Inside Self-Storage

Inside Self-Storage (ISS) is the leading critical information source for self-storage owners, managers, investors and developers. The ISS brand includes publications, e-media, a discussion forum, tradeshows and educational resources. Established 1991, ISS provides solutions to the challenges operators face in a competitive and economically challenging environment, and covers topics essential to every self-storage professional: day-to-day management, facility marketing, legal issues, construction and development, finance, real estate, staffing and more. The ISS family includes Inside Self-Storage magazine, now in print nearly 20 years; Inside Self-Storage World Expo, the industry's largest conference and tradeshow; SelfStorageTalk.com, a rich, interactive online community; and the Self-Storage Training Institute, which offers certification through its Qualified Storage Manager Program.

USstoragesearch.com Featured Self Storage Listings Enhance Standard Storage Listings

USstoragesearch.com provides all members with an opportunity to feature their self storage facility on a quarterly basis through a Featured Listing auction process. USstoragesearch.com members with Featured Listings, on average, see a 91% increase in click-through-rate, 56% increase in customer contacts and a 38% overall increase in self storage unit reservations.

The largest and longest standing self storage directory, USstoragesearch.com, began offering Featured Self Storage Listings to members last year and these Featured Listings continue to further enhance the performance of standard self storage facility listings on the USstoragesearch.com website. The current Featured Listing auction for USstoragesearch.com members, ending Thursday, September 15^th at 3 p.m., gives self storage operators with another way to increase their online visibility.

USstoragesearch.com launched the new "Featured Listings" product in June of 2010 in response to member's requests to gain increased visibility on the largest self storage directory, featuring more than 18,000 storage locations across the US. The Featured Listings give self storage operators the opportunity to be found at the top of storage searches performed on the site for the city and/or zip code their facility is located in.

Nick Bilava, USstoragesearch.com's Director of Sales & Marketing, explaining how Featured Self Storage Listings work stated that "a unique feature of the Featured Listing product is that it is available to all members on a totally level playing field. Featured Listings are available once each quarter on an auction basis. We felt this manner of offering Featured Listings was most fair to all self storage operators. It is great that the smallest operator in the biggest market has the same opportunity to be the first self storage facility found as the largest operator.

Bilava also shared how "the results for smaller self storage operators have been just as amazing as the results seen by larger operators. We have seen savvy smaller self storage operators actively bidding in the auctions and as a result obtain the Featured Listing in larger markets where obtaining good visibility through any marketing medium can be difficult. In several cases, due to their acquisition of the Featured Listing, their facility's listing was viewed as much as six times more often and they saw more than four times the customer contacts as they did without a Featured Listing, truly demonstrating the value of the Featured Self Storage Listings on USstoragesearch.com ".

Mike Jones, Vice President of Operations for USstoragesearch, stated "since the launch of the USstoragesearch.com Featured Listings in 2010 we have continued to optimize the product so our members see the best possible results from the Featured Listings they obtain. The results have been amazing for our clients taking advantage of the Featured Listing product".

Jones continued, "In addition, all of our members have benefited from 12 straight months of double digit month-over-month increases in both site traffic and on-site conversions. USstoragesearch.com continues to grow in virtually every metric over the last 12 months including membership, site traffic, call center clients, call volume, the USstoragesearch.com Self Storage Network, leads, quotes and most importantly storage unit reservations for our clients".

USstoragesearch.com is currently running their 4^th quarter Featured Listing Auction, which ends on Thursday, September 15^th at 3 p.m. CST. USstoragesearch.com members can log-in to their USstoragesearch.com member account and bid for the featured listings for as little as $10 per month and the auction fees are reimbursed from each self storage reservation secured through the Featured Listing.

About USstoragesearch.com

USstoragesearch.com is a trusted storage partner; serving the storage industry with aggressive and cost-effective online Self Storage Marketing. Established in 2004, USstoragesearch.com is the self storage industry leader with the largest and longest standing storage directory with the largest member base, featuring over 18,000 member facilities. Storage customers using the USstoragesearch.com online reservation network, which includes high-quality partner sites like www.storageunit.com, www.findselfstorage.com, & storage.com, search real-time available storage units by facility location, unit size, property features and specials. Customers have an easy way to find, compare and securely reserve storage by credit card in minutes. These real-time reservations have been proven to convert to paying rentals for member facilities more than 90% of the time.