Self-storage facility owners are keeping their eyes on a growing trend: full-service storage companies that pick up items at consumers’ homes, place them in storage, and return them upon request. “The first thing to understand…
The moving industry is changing before our eyes. It seems like almost every day we are hearing about new start-ups that offer easier, cheaper and more innovative ways to move your stuff. Similar to what…
Tech jobs are available all over the world, and according to Indeed.com, there is a shortage of talent available to take them. The company analyzed data from its online job search listings and released its…
Look around the development team at SpareFoot, and you’ll see a bunch of smart techies who drive our self-storage search engine. Without our developers, you wouldn’t be reading this blog post right now. Or you…
[ By Tanner Mangum, TopTenReviews.com ] Although Facebook and Twitter are top choices of startups for social media marketing, they’re not the only networks that can help a business grow. Here are the five “Social Media Sleepers”…
The Austin tech scene is a constant buzz of activity, and it’s a daunting task to stay current with all the startup crawls, happy hours, acquisitions and emerging companies. If you’re like me, you’re part…
A recent infographic from an outfit called Brickfish detailed just how massive Twitter has become: 230 million active users worldwide, with 100 million of them logging onto the microblogging platform at least once a day.
It is a universally acknowledged truth that we all dread calling a customer service line. What usually starts as a simple problem or inquiry turns into a monstrous hour-long game of telephone hopscotch that involves…
Once upon a time, there was an empty space on the Internet waiting to be filled by a scrappy startup blog. Then arose two fearless leaders to take on this challenge–and thus the SpareFoot blog…
Let’s face it. Despite the inherent sex appeal of each and every SpareFooter (see above), self-storage can be a decidedly non-sexy industry. Just look at Darrell on Storage Wars. So how does SpareFoot get our…
