Storage.co.uk is nearly two years old

The beginning of March 2012 will mark nearly two years to the day since Storage.co.uk first launched. In that time, the website has gone from strength to strength, bringing a fresh voice to Britain’s dynamic self storage industry.

It began with a simple idea: to give UK self storage customers a way of finding all their local self storage firms, which would let them choose the one that would be most convenient, and/or offer them the best deal. This initial aim has been more than realised, while its success has enabled the vision of Storage.co.uk to grow in scale.

These have been some of the highlights of the last two years:

Building online presence – Having started from scratch, Storage.co.uk now receives thousands of individual visitors each week, all looking for the best possible deal for self storage. Thanks to plenty of hard work on the web-design front, Storage.co.uk is now regularly one of the top two unique search results in Google for both the search terms “Storage” and “Self Storage”.

Generating business for the self storage industry – Storage.co.uk’s membership has grown to include practically every self storage facility in the UK, with more companies asking to be added every week. Over three thousand new customers have requested quotes from self storage firms since we started offering that service. As industry estimates suggest the typical customer spends about £1900 with a self storage firm after signing-up, customers referred by Storage.co.uk have potentially generated a grand total of more than £6.4 million for the industry.

Familiarizing customers with self storage – Storage.co.uk has also helped foster an increased awareness amongst the UK public about what self storage is and how it works. This has been achieved through a mixture of sources, including articles that on the website, our busy self storage blog, entertaining videos, Facebook and Twitter. Lots of people have contacted the office with general questions about self storage, which we have been only too happy to answer.

Excellence in self storage awards – Storage.co.uk has sponsored two sets of awards for excellence to the best self storage firms across a range of categories, including for excellence in web design, customer service and innovation. These have been very gratefully received, with many self storage companies displaying the award winners’ badge on their website, and emailing to thank us for our support.

National Declutter Week – Storage.co.uk was pleased to launch National Declutter Week in October 2010, which encouraged people to improve their lives through decluttering. The results were so promising we’ve decided to hold another one this year from 7-18 March (to tie in with the theme of Spring Cleaning), which we hope will be met with even greater support and success. We promote four options for householders and office workers with too much clutter: bin it, give it away to charity (especially hospice charity shops), sell it, or – for those who want to keep it, but get it out of the way – put it in self storage.

Storage.co.uk would like to thank all the people who’ve supported the website over the last two years, and who can look forward to another exciting twelve months in which lots of interesting developments are planned.