Our self-storage call center here at USstoragesearch.com has been running and operating for quite some time.  About 1 year ago we started to consider opening up our call center to be a 24/7 “shop.”  I admit it, I was a skeptic.  I didn’t think that anyone called, nor did any storage unit shopping, after 10pm and thought it would be a huge waste of money and time to staff a group of “overnighters.”

Man, was I wrong.

Not only are people shopping for storage units at 3am, they reserve them too!

The reality of it is, our 24/7 call center is beneficial on so many levels.  We have a highly trained bunch of agents that work extremely hard to help handle every customers’ needs – sales call or not.  One of our most important features is that we have a staff onsite to help with issues, emergencies, and diffuse situations at all hours of the day.  The high sales conversion rates are great and help the bottom line, but the customer service aspect of having someone always there is an aspect many don’t consider.

I call my overnight team my “Night Sharks.”  In reality I should call them the “Night Crusaders” or “Night Saviors.”  Just the other day one of my overnight agents, Lisa, explained to me how at midnight she helped a customer escape the locked gates.  This customer had 24 hour access rights and for whatever reason, the gate code stopped working and it would not let him and his employee out at midnight.  The customer called the emergency contact, Lisa called the emergency contact, but to no avail and no answer.  After a long period and no “callback” from the emergency contact the only thing remaining was to call the non-emergency police line to assist them.  My agents normally would not call the police, but the situation merited it and the customer’s cell phone died, leaving them stranded.  About 35 minutes later, the customer called back to sincerely thank Lisa because without her, they were stuck all night in a storage unit.

Do you have any stories like this?  How was your situation handled?

I shudder to think what would have happened to this customer if we weren’t around to help.  I also believe that the experience of this situation, without us to help, would have permanently stained this storage company’s reputation with this customer, and anyone this customer may refer, hurting their bottom line.

I admit that our call center only makes money on reservations made, but I’m proud of the fact that our 24/7 storage call center is here to keep our client’s customers happy and safe.  Great Job “Night Sharks” and great job Lisa!

With over 12 years of call center experience, Brian Bremer has managed several call center programs for multiple Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and in the Philippines.  Brian joined USstoragesearch.com in 2008 and has since grown their 24/7 “pay for performance” call center into one of the strongest, cost-effective, and highest sales converting call centers in the self-storage industry.  Follow Brian Bremer on Twitter @Brian_Bremer

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USstoragesearch.com was started locally in Omaha, NE and continues to grow our operation in Omaha.  2012 promises to be a big year for USstoragesearch.com.    Our call center expanded its hours and we have added more than 60 new websites to our self storage network.  The self storage network is growing faster than we expected due to the early results exceeding expectations.  The first sites in the program Storage.com and Storage Unit.com have seen stronger use and better conversion rates that we could have imagined.

So far this year we have already started expanding our workforce, adding 14 new team members in the first quarter alone.  We are growing in all areas, adding to our programming, social media, SEO and sales team.  Much of our growth is due to the expansion of our call center.  The self storage call center is now operating 24/7 and the results after the first month of 24/7 operations have surprised us.

Look for USstoragesearch.com to participate in more Silicon Prairie News events this year as well.  We can’t wait to see what the rest of the year brings.  We have several new upgrades to the site and a couple of really exciting products we will bring to the storage industry this year.  These products will make online marketing easier for more storage facilities than ever before.

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Teachers are geniuses in many ways. They have to wear many hats and don’t get credit for most of them. Teachers far too often have to go above and beyond being an educator and be a nurse, a therapist, a bouncer, a convenience store, and so much more. As a former teacher, yes, I am biased, but you know I’m right. Even though I was only on the teacher side of the school system for two years, I realized that successful teachers were organization and storage masters. These practices that I saw in highly effective teachers can easily be transferred into anybody’s lifestyle.

Paperwork, storage and organization is obviously a key to being a successful teacher. You cannot lose anything when you are a teacher. You are expected to be able to put your hands on any piece of paper at any given time. To do so, a lot of teachers had different methods. One method that I was a particular fan of was having binders dedicated to specific subjects with page protectors and dividers. If a teacher needed a copy of the fractions pre-test, she could go to the Fractions binder, go under the assessment tab and pull out the pre-test from its page protector. You can do this in your home by having a binder for each major component of your life. You could have a binder for vacation information, another for bills, one for each member of your family, one for your emergency plan, or whatever is important to you and your family. This way finding something can be a simple matter of finding the right binder. It is as easy process as long as you stay on top of it.

Good teachers also have stations or areas of a room strictly dedicated to specific tasks. Clearly you aren’t going to have a bulletin board with arrows and a calendar for a “homework station” but you can apply this same principle. At your front door you can have a coat rack, shoe bin, and key hook and no shoes, coats, or keys should go beyond that point. In your office, can have a coffee area on your counter and filters, mugs, sugar containers, and other coffee items do not go beyond that point. At home, keep your linen closet’s shelves divided for specific items and do not put items on random shelves no matter how tired you are when you put things away or really don’t feel like reaching all the way to the top shelf. Keeping the strict stations rule teachers have will help you keep everything organized and in its proper locations. Teachers are sticklers for stations and you can be, too.

Lastly, in any good teacher’s classroom, you will never find a single nook, cranny, shelf, or bit of wall space that isn’t being used for storage purposes. Under the table that is cleverly concealed with a decorative table cloth are bins full of extra supplies. On the side of the filing cabinets you’ll find lists of important phone numbers, emergency routes, calendars, reminders, and other important documents for easy access. Under the chalk board are folders for kids to drop off missing assignments, pick up homework, counseling sheets, and other stuff for kids to grab when they need them. You can do this too by filling every space possible with storage solutions. Buy bins, reuse boxes, hang decorative curtains to cover shelves—whatever it takes. You can maximize your home or office like a teacher and fit more stuff into one room than you ever thought possible.

“What would a teacher do?” probably won’t be what you think when you come across your next organization or storage struggle, but maybe you should. Be overly organized with your binders. Set up areas in your home or office for specific tasks so you don’t have to pester people looking for misplaced items. Use every space you have available to you in an efficient manner. Today’s teachers could probably teach all of us a thing or two about storage and organizer without even having to try.

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Well, if it isn’t summer before we know it? This week in Nebraska, temperatures hit 80 degrees! Although this weather is perfect for throwing on a pair of shorts on and enjoying leisure time outside, it puts a damper on winter sports! If you haven’t thought about throwing your snowboard and snowmobile into storage, it might be time to start considering it!

Big toys take up a lot of storage space.  Your first consideration when storing these items may be a self-storage unit. Things to consider when storing large winter sport items in a self-storage unit:

1)      Size and Capacity. Make sure you get a space that can fit your snowmobile, snowboard, and any extra equipment that may have to be stored with it. Also be sure to check the width of the unit’s door. Trailers or other items may be too wide and not fit.

2)      Safety. When storing these expensive items, you want a storage unit with security features such as an entry keypad and security cameras. Also, in certain regions, a climate-controlled storage unit may be the safest selection to protect against extreme heat and humidity.

3)      Convenience. It’s important to occasionally check up on items in storage. Therefore, you want to pick a location that is easy to get to, and with a staff that is easy to work with!

Some other general steps to take before storing your snowboard and snowmobile include:

Snowboard-

-          Freshly wax your snowboard and sharpen the edges.

-          Wrap your snowboard up in either a plastic zip-up board bad or in plastic shrink-wrap material.

-          Store your board standing up, and not directly on hard floor.

More snowboard storage information can be found at http://bit.ly/yPWNvx.

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-          Before storing, properly clean and polish your machine.

-          Paint ski bottoms.

-          Coat all metal surfaces with WD40 to prevent rust. Rust is bad!

-          Loosen track-tensioning bolts to their limit to prevent stretching and crackling in storage.

-          Take the battery out and place it somewhere out of sunlight.

-          Remove the drive belt and leave it unrolled while in storage.

More snowmobile storage information can be found at http://bit.ly/xsB2Qw.

Hopefully these steps and links are sufficient in aiding you and your winter storage needs. Big smiles everyone! It’s almost summer time! Time to trade in your snow gear for lake gear. I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to be boating and soaking up the sun!

Have a great day!

Danielle Burgess is an account manager with Hurrdat.com, a Lincoln, NE Social Media company founded by Blake Lawrence & Adi Kunalic that develops and implements online marketing strategies for businesses and brands.  The company also works with professional atheletes.

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We just finished listening to a webinar put on by Vocus about how to work with your media contacts in the ever changing PR world.  Michael Smart of Michael Smart PR gave some great insights that you can use to help get the news out about your business.  The following are some highlights from the webinar with some added advice from our experiences.

First, the media world has drastically changed in the last few years.  There has been much consolidation,  Journalists must work on more projects, much faster to keep up with a shortened news cycle.  Think about how much your target journalists read each day and how many outlets they may be producing content for.  Social media and the internet has drastically changed how journalist work.  Keep this in mind when contacting journalists.  Gone are the days where they work on select stories for one media outlet.

When contacting your target journalists that you want to share your news, make sure you contact journalists who have experience with this type of news and would have an interest in the story.  Don’t pitch a tech story to the restaurant review editor (unless your tech story has to do with the restaurant industry & even then probably not the right outlet)  Customize your pitch so the journalist knows that you are sincerely reaching out to them because you know the story could be a fit for them.  Get Journalists what they are looking for.

It is also important to not make the pitch about you or your company Lead with how the story affects them and others not you.  Make it relatable to the journalist and make sure that the pitch is substantive to them.  Pitch your story to the journalist and make it relatable.

Your initial pitch should be a 10 second pitch so keep the pitch short and after interest is shown send more detail.  These journalists may see hundreds if not thousands of e-mails each day.  2 pages will probably not be read.  Spare proper names in your pitch unless they add to the pitch and don’t worry about punctuation/acronyms – keep it short.

Write a winning subject line.  The journalist knows you are pitching a story so don’t say that so tease what comes next so they want to read the content.  Take advice from the magazines you see at the grocery store check-out line – these 5-7 word headlines grab your attention and these tried and true principles can help you grab the attention of the journalists.

Do the leg work for journalists and bloggers.  We referenced new time constraints earlier.  The timeframe for article or blog construction is much shorter and journalists may be willing to use references you supply.  Offer art or visuals & if you don’t have one give the journalist examples of what they could use for visuals.  When offering visuals post them to flickr or a web service don’t send as an attachment.

Find an angle.  Use this for boring or routine events.  Do you have quarterly benchmarks that your CEO loves and wants to sell but readers may not be interested in hearing about…Again.  How do you make these stories something people want to read about or a journalist would want to write about. Use angles about how you reached the event not necessarily what is happening that day.  The story is often more interesting than the result.  Tie your story into Pop Culture – this is what consumers want so if you can help a journalist find a tie that readers will want to follow it can help.  What do people need?  Real people experiencing the story & make sure these people are available and communicate/articulate the message you are trying to share.

Finally, what to do when you get no response.  Michael Smart says when you follow up, never say you are “following up”.  Journalists are busy and trying to keep up and don’t like being “followed up on”.  His recommended steps are to first e-mail, 2^nd e-mail (maybe slightly different subject or pitch), then phone call til the answer but don’t reference either e-mail

Finally, Michael said to Always work to get on target’s radar screen.  Read, watch and react to your target’s work.  #FF them, RT them, share and tag in FB.  E-mail congrats.  Comment.  Be sincere.  Acknowledge who you work for every time you do this so when you have a story they recognize your name.  It is also important to read the journalists you target so Michael says to pick 7 influencers, set aside 1 hour a week prefer 12 minutes a day.

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I’ve previously written about my adorable, lovable, and very sweet dogs—Sadie and Duke. My furry friends take up a lot of my time. Going for walks, snuggling, playing…you know, the tough parts of my day revolve around them. Since we love our puppies so much (yes, at any age they will still be puppies to us) we’ve tried to make their lives as comfortable as possible. In fact, their beds are softer than ours. Sad, but most definitely true. Even though these pet beds are quite nice, we still make attempts to keep them from being the focal points of any room. Dog beds are great because they are a place that your pet can go and be comfortable so they won’t be trying to get on furniture, but these beds are also usually so big and can quickly become overly loved eye sores. Or dogs have this weird where they can’t relax unless they have a bed or blanket or something in a room for them to lay on. They will pace for as long as they are in that area until you give them something. That’s why our houses have usually looked like dog bed city. In this new house, we’ve taken strides to compromise with our dogs about their compulsions and our need to have a house that doesn’t naturally double as a kennel. Today I’ll share with you how we weave in our dogs’ sleeping spots into our lives and house.

This giant dog bed is nicely tucked away in this corner and you can hardly tell it is even there.

Upstairs is where got the most creative for doggie solutions. In any room with a bed (for humans), the dogs want to hide under it and sleep. No big deal. We don’t keep stuff under beds really anyway, but as we learned from previous places, dogs can quickly ruin a carpet under a bed. The natural oils that dogs secrete and their general furriness and dirtiness can cause permanent damage to a carpet if left unattended. To try and protect the carpet in their hotspots of relaxation, we put down towels and blankets. They hated it. The first night they moved out all of the towels we put down and slept directly on the floor. Plan B was old throw rugs and carpet remnants under the beds for protection. Throw rugs got kicked out as well, but carpet remnants have remained. I suggest going with carpet remnants if you have any because our diva dogs liked them and you can’t tell they’re under there like you could with a blanket or something else. Now the dogs can hide and our carpet won’t be ruined.

Sadie took over the work nook

Also upstairs, we’ve gotten good at the “quick hide.” We generally leave out a blanket or a quilt for the dogs to stretch out on in the office, guest bedroom, or landing area upstairs, but these ugly old blankets are not cute. When we have guests over, we quickly fold these treasured blankets up toss them in this old steamer trunk we have. The trunk looks neat and perfectly holds all of their dog beds and blankets that previously littered the floors. I don’t encourage shoving dog blankets in a closet or anything like that because dog beds get yucky fast. I prefer to keep all of the “dog yuck” away from our clean linens and other belongings. Nobody is the wiser that just a few minutes before the dogs were all sprawled out on a tattered blanket in the middle of the room. All they see is an organized room with lots of floor space and a handy storage trunk.

Sadie NEXT to her bed

Since we spend most of our time downstairs, we kept our nicer dog beds down there and tried desperately to find places to tuck those big things away. After our furniture was all set up during the move-in process, we immediately went in search of nooks, crannies, and hiding places for dog beds and blankets in every room. Turns out we didn’t need to do any searching that one of our dogs was going to do all of the work for us. Sadie, our resident chicken and Queen of Hiding, did most of the hiding-spot finding. In the downstairs, she found three places that she claimed for the dogs that we agreed with because these areas were out of the way. First, in our kitchen we had a space that was supposed to be a mini downstairs office area. There is a spot under a lowered counter where a chair is supposed to go so you can sit at a computer. Sadie had other plans and hid there for the first three days we moved into this house. We conceded that this was her spot now and put a blanket down there for her and one of their large dog food storage containers. This area became the landing spot for the dogs in the kitchen. It is perfect because they can see what is going on and they are totally out of the way. Second, they found a nice, concealed corner where our sofa and entertainment centers meet. This area perfectly hides one of their giant dog beds. They can slip back there and relax and you can’t even tell that dog bed is back there. That area is a perfect mix of me wanting to hide their stuff and their need for a secure place in a room to be just theirs.

Trunk that holds all of the dog beds and blankets from upstairs when we have guests.

With their toys and beds nicely hidden away, we’ve had several people come over and tell us that you would hardly know we had dogs if we didn’t talk about them. I took that as an extreme compliment. Our dog crate is tucked away behind a built-in bookshelf, they share one neutral colored dog house outside, and their other “landing spots” are all concealed. These dogs get to live in fairly nice digs and they are totally out of the way. Storing their beds out of the way helps them hide and helps us keep our house people friendly. I encourage you to invest in carpet remnants, storage boxes of some sort for dog blankets, and beds that can fit into tight spaces.

Duke when he was a baby & Jimmy the oft-mentioned Husband

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I love art history. I love crafts and painting. I never turn down a chance to paint whether it is creatively or just for household purposes. Well, this past weekend my husband and I spent the majority of our time at a friend’s house helping her paint. We like to paint. We’ve helped our families paint rooms many times before and painted an accent wall in our house with relative success. We naively thought that a bunch of us would stroll in and knock out an entire two rooms in a matter of hours! HA, we were wrong. By the end of the first day, we had succeeded in painting the kitchen and succeeded in making a giant mess. For day two, we realized there we needed a little method to our madness or else we were going to end up with nothing but a giant mess. Overnight, we came up with a plan for better storage, organization, and painting practices to use in round two of the project.   First of all, we learned to have every piece of painting equipment kept in one area when it was not in use. My friend used one of our painting trays and turned it into sort of a painting bullpen. For different projects, we’d call in different tools to work. So, when we were using a brush for trim, we kept the rollers, sponges, stirring sticks, and any other utensils in this paint tray until it was needed. By storing everything in one place in the room we saved a ton of time in searching for stuff. Also, we kept the paint cans there as well. Having this little station made it quick and easy to get a paint refill and to switch tools.   Next, we figured out that we needed to do something about our feet. It didn’t take long to see that paint splatters, drips, and spills were going to happen frequently which lead to foot prints throughout the area. Thankfully we were well prepared with bunches of tarps, but we still needed to be careful. We started storing our flip-flops on either exit from the room and just walked barefoot in the painting area. Being barefoot is NOT ideal to me, but it was much safer for the floors throughout the house if I conceded to being barefoot in the danger zones and only wore shoes elsewhere. Just by going barefoot and putting on shoes when needing to travel to another room we were able to save a lot of time and a lot of accidents.   During cleanup time was when we hit our stride with organization. Our lovely “painting party” hostess was prepared with labeled bins to store our supplies in when we were done. REMEMBER though, before you jump into storing your painting supplies to clean them completely. (We had one member of our party on brush/roller cleaning duty and that person used water to rinse out the majority of the paint and then used paint thinner to get out the rest of the paint. It is imperative to completely clean out all of the paint from your tools or else they will be useless for future painting projects.) Brushes, sponge sticks, and roller pads all went into separate air tight bags and those bags were then put into a larger bin that held the painter’s tape, extra tarps, and trays. When she is ready to paint next, she will just have to buy new paint because everything is ready to go!   Clearly, even though I love painting, I will never be a professional painter in any fashion. What a constant mess paint is! How in the world did Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, or Michelangelo keep from going crazy with all of that cleaning, organization, drips, spills, and those smells? Eh, on second thought maybe they weren’t 100% sane, but who is? Anyway, we got better at painting and keeping ourselves organized and ended up with a fairly successfully painted set of rooms. Our hostess said she loved it and that is all that matters. Also, I learned a lot about what it takes to keep a big project like painting organized.

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Is it that art imitates life? Or that life often imitates art? I can never remember, but I did however notice that one storyline from a re-run of How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) sounded incredibly familiar. In the episode of HIMYM that I’m talking about, Ted was having issues with a girlfriend over what stuff of his could stay and what had to go (actually they’ve had that topic a few times, but anyway). I’ve seen this same argument pop up in the lives of many of my friends and even in my own. The “trash vs. treasure” argument seems to filter through people’s lives quite often. What to do? Clearly compromise is in order and I’m here to help you. I’ll share some of the solutions I’ve used and heard from friends when it comes to displaying or storing the stuff that your other half brings into a house.

My husband is a Marine and with that comes a lot of honor, responsibility, and stuff. A lot of it like extra uniforms and equipment I can’t complain much about because they are a necessary part of his job. That stuff has taken over our guest bedroom and part of the garage, but that’s okay. The awards, pictures, memorabilia, and all of the other USMC stuff that I love, don’t get me wrong, is what can quickly take over a house. In our old apartment, we had a room that I called his “shrine” room because it was covered in his USMC stuff. We’re both proud of his accomplishments, but our front room was covered in his stuff. To compromise on that he took a bunch of it to work. Certificates, pictures, and his sword found a new home in his office. The rest of the stuff like posters, flags, bull dogs, cowbells, and little trinkets got more evenly spread throughout the house. In each room of our house you’ll find at least two things that are USMC and that’s cool with me. I don’t mind having some things around to show our scarlet and gold pride, but I just didn’t want the house to look like a museum or well, a shrine to my husband. Putting stuff in the office, the garage, and other rooms in the house helped to tone everything down so guests weren’t overwhelmed by the Semper Fi spirit that we have.

Just last weekend another couple was complaining about what to do with each other’s home decorations. They have both lived in apartments by themselves for years and have accumulated a lot of stuff. He currently lives in a place that could double as a sports bar and her place looks like a museum for the World’s Fair. After long hours of discussion, they have agreed to prioritize what they want to keep and what they want displayed where. She insists they keep her paintings she picked up in South America displayed and he can’t live without displaying his baseball collection. Basically they are picking their battles little by little and agreeing that some stuff is better kept in storage than on display– like his replica of his favorite football stadium and her collection of bells from every country that she’s visited.

Like Ted, we’ve all learned to pick our battles on when it comes to storing or displaying the stuff we love. It’s okay to keep your stuff that can’t be put up on a shelf or hung on a wall in order to keep the peace. Just put that stuff into a storage unit or a closet and visit it every now and again. Remember to spread the wealth when it comes to displaying your treasures and not to share too much. Also, give concessions on things so you can later play that “hey, remember when we said it was okay to hang that awful painting you made in college? Well now I want to get…” card. Harmony is possible and hopefully your relationships turn out better than any of Ted’s on HIMYM.

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Two years ago my husband and I bought a coffee table after extensive searching. It had to be the perfect shade of stain, the right size, and have storage space in it. We found one that we loved that was an espresso color, had a piece of glass on top, a shelf inside, and even a storage drawer. We still love it, except now it has vanished. Not literally exactly. It is just hidden under a pile of junk. In a matter of a few hours, the table magically gets consumed by stuff. It is almost like there is an elf that runs in, dumps junk, runs away, and then laughs at us as we shove stuff around to find a place to rest a drink. That is why, starting today, I want to start a new plan of action for keeping our living room (and especially coffee table) clutter free.

Part one of my plan is to follow the rule of “never leave a room empty handed.” My mom tried to get me to follow this as a kid, but that didn’t last long. I am messy by nature, but I try desperately not to be. With this new rule, every single time you leave a room, you should pick something up and put it away.  There is ALWAYS something to put away, so don’t kid yourself. In theory, this will help us to put stuff away in a timely fashion. Coffee mugs, candy wrappers, magazines, and just straight junk don’t need to find a permanent home on the coffee table. Starting today, those little pestering item will be put away the very next time somebody moves. You don’t have to take ALL the stuff with you at once, just one thing. That way you don’t feel like you are constantly cleaning even though you actually are.

Part two of my plan is to stop eating in the living room and go back to the kitchen table. We were doing so good with eating at the kitchen table and then I don’t know what happened. But because of this minor change, our coffee table now doubles as a condiments bar most nights of the week. I’m pretty sure that ketchup, salt, pepper, and extra napkins are chilling on the coffee table right now because of last night’s dinner. We manage to put the yucky dishes away, but nobody ever goes back for the other stuff.

The final phase of my plan is to not sort the mail on the coffee table. The mail should stay on the kitchen counter and then be put either in the recycling or in a permanent home. We both will go through the mail and make nice piles of organized mail and then leave the piles where they are. How dumb is that to have a giant pile of “trash” mail taking up good space on your coffee table leaving the place junky looking?

This weekend will be the true test of my plan. Doing something on a weeknight where we only spend a couple of hours downstairs isn’t hard to manage. It is the hour after hour of living in a space that is the true test of our clutter-busting rules. We have our organizational features, we just need to be sure we stay on top of them and use them. Once you let a place go, it seems so overwhelming. Don’t get me wrong though, our house doesn’t look like something from one of those hoarders shows where we have food, trash, and boxes sitting about—we just have irritating clutter. Follow me on Twitter (@LGJones523) for pictures and updates on our adventures in operation “clean coffee table.”

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Remember quality vs quantity and that your social media outlets are giving your company a personality. (Make sure that personality is a good one)

By Laura Gee, www.USstoragesearch.com Storage and Organization Contributor

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