How Your Small Business Can Benefit from Hiring Self Storage

In today's rapidly changing world, small businesses need every advantage they can get. One asset that can help your small business to thrive and grow is extra storage space. Having enough—or even some surplus space—available, gives you room to run or expand your business, and store products and equipment.



Renting or purchasing extra warehouse, office, or storage space can be expensive, especially for new businesses. A simple and inexpensive alternative is to rent a self-storage unit. Renting a self-storage unit can benefit your business in a variety of ways.

More room—less clutter—to expand your business easily

One of the biggest obstacles to the growth and expansion of a small enterprise is lack of space due to clutter. Whether you run a small shop, an office, or café, clutter can prevent you from expanding your business when the time is right, and can make a poor impression on customers. A self-storage unit gives you a convenient space to store items like paperwork, furniture and office equipment. Less clutter leaves more room for expansion.

Clutter is also one of the biggest obstacles to productivity since it gets in the way and slows down business operations.

Available storage space should you need to remodel or relocate

As your small business grows, you'll likely need to hire more staff and purchase or rent more equipment. You'll also need more space to operate in. These important needs often require you to either remodel or relocate.

If you choose to remodel, a storage unit will give you somewhere to store the contents of your business until you complete the remodeling work. And if you need to relocate for any reason, self-storage space can help you speed up your move.

Many self-storage providers offer transport services, so you can save time by having someone else place your items into storage for you.

Storage space for seasonal items

As the seasons change, you might no longer need certain items of equipment or furniture. This might apply to you if you run a small hotel or restaurant and need to put away your summer equipment and furniture until next year.

Whether you run a small hotel, landscaping business or shop, having a self-storage unit gives you the ability to remove and store seasonal items quickly and conveniently.

Safe and secure storage for important items

Most modern storage facilities have excellent security onsite to monitor and protect your storage space. This is ideal if you'd like a convenient but secure location to store important documents, expensive items of equipment, or surplus products.

If you aren't confident with the security of your current location or you simply need more space for expansion, you can place valuable or important items into self-storage. But be sure to enquire for yourself what security measures a storage facility has onsite to protect your stored items.

Warehouse space if you run an online business

If you run an online retail business, you'll need storage space for the products you offer your customers. And as your business grows, so too will your storage space needs. By putting your trust in a self-storage facility, you'll always have storage space. And you'll have the ability to upgrade to a larger storage unit quickly should your business experience growth.

Do you have a need for more space to help your small business grow? Then call Zippy Removals & Storage today. Our family run business can help you choose a storage unit size that suits all your current and future space needs. And with the monitored alarms at our secure storage facility, you can be sure your items will be safe and secure all year round.