How to Move Your Smart Home Devices
You’ve created your ideal smart home with a collection of connected gadgets that save you energy, offer great conveniences, and keep your home safe and secure — but now you’re moving. What are you going…
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Finding the Best Self-Storage Management Software For Your Facility
So you’ve bought or developed a self-storage facility. Now what? Managing a self-storage business isn’t necessarily rocket science. After all it isn’t unheard of for some old school self-storage facilities to keep tabs on their…
Who Are The Women of SpareFoot?
Inspired by a desire to create opportunities for women to expand their skill sets, SpareFoot employees Leslie Hall and Megan Oertel co-founded the Women of SpareFoot (WoS) organization in August 2016, with the mission to…
How to Prepare Your Electric Car For Storage
Electric vehicles have some advantages over conventional gas or diesel cars. They are less expensive to run, cheaper to maintain and better for the environment. But there are differences, too, including how you store an…
What Exactly Is Full-Service Storage?
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…
How We’ll Move in 2016: The Future of Moving
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…
How SpareFoot Uses Tech to Deliver Great Customer Service
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…
How to Make Your Industry Sexy on Social Media
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…
Why Is It So Tough to Hire Tech Talent in Austin?
If you’re a software developer, you probably can write your own ticket at any number of employers in Austin, TX. Why? Because the demand greatly exceeds the supply.
Austin Networking Events: Where Should You Be?
It’s a Tuesday night and you’re eating a TV dinner alone. It’s been a long time since you’ve gone out into that world, and you’re a little worried your skills have gotten rusty over the…