Call (888) 786-7243Have you heard that the national Self Storage Association is going to hold its spring convention and trade show right here in Colorado? Not in Denver, which would be very nice too, but in Colorado Springs. What’s so cool about that is that the SSA was founded in Colorado, 35 years ago — in 1975! NOT in Colorado Springs, by the way, but here in Denver.
It’s nice when people remember their roots.
Times were different back then. Self-storage was something new, and there wasn’t enough of it to keep up with the demand. You could say the words “self storage” to people, and they would probably think you were talking about cleaning out your closets or hauling stuff up to the attic. Self-storage owners didn’t use computers to organize their businesses — we did bookkeeping the old-fashioned way back then, by using books! If you needed to find storage here in Denver, you couldn’t use Google. Imagine that. You couldn’t use Google. You had to haul out the phone book and let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages. Whose fingers walk anymore? We let our fingers do the typing, these days! And we spent more time designing our business cards than we did designing our websites — back then, we thought websites were the dusty corners of the office that needed to be swept out. Online reservations? Nope — in those days, we picked up the phone and called local businesses, and our calls were usually answered by humans. We didn’t “network” — we just went out and talked to people. Yes, those were different times.
Doesn’t that make you wonder how the world will be different 35 years from now?
Welcome home, SSA.