328. Future-Proof Your Facility: What I Learned from Top Storage Facilities Abroad w/Alec Peeples

Imagine walking up to a self storage facility and renting a unit from your phone. Next month, you need to upgrade, and you can do it immediately, again from your phone. When you move out, you schedule a date from your phone and walk away. This is what automated self storage looks like, and if your facility doesn’t sound like this example, you could be in for a big wake-up call.   Alec Peeples from Storeganise saw this in real-time. After living abroad in Asia for 10 years, he saw what true “manless” self storage automation looks like. No full-time managers, just simple move-ins and move-outs for customers. Now, Storeganise works with over 1,500 facilities in more than 50 countries, and Alec gets to see what the future looks like before it gets to the U.S.    In this episode, Alec is breaking down the two things you need to implement to increase your revenue and lower your expenses, how Asian self storage facilities are years ahead of their American counterparts, and the exact tech stack you can start using today to automate your self storage facility, do less, and make more.    What you’ll learn in today’s show: How to automate your self storage facility, even if you’re in a small town or have a small facility  How to increase your profits even when rent raises are getting harder and harder to pull off  What Asian self storage facilities are doing to make it unbelievably easy for customers to move in  No more reserving units? Why many of Alec’s facilities are doing away with reservations altogether  The exact tech stack Alec recommends for self storage operators  — Connect with Alec on LinkedIn! - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-peeples/  Storeganise - https://storeganise.com/  Check out this episode on self storage in Brazil! Self Storage Income 263 - The Man Who Taught an Entire Country to Start Using Self Storage - https://www.selfstorageincome.com/podcasts/self-storage-income-2/episodes/2148876376