Hi all, as you may or may not know I work in self storage.
While at work today I had my nose in my study book when one of our customers walked in, he asked what I was working on. After I explained my plans he said it was good that I am pushing myself and asked how long it might take (to become a AICB) I told him about 6-7 months if I work hard and cheekily said if he needs a bookkeeper in 6 months, give me a call.
Anyway.
One of the things I did noticed is that quite a few small businesses use our storage units. They range from a small finance office who store there archiving all the way up to a man who imports food and drink from Eastern Europe for the local polish shops.
My questions are
1)When marketing, does anyone target self storage facility?
2)Does any one use storage to store your/customers paperwork?
-- Edited by Lee The Rookie on Saturday 29th of October 2011 12:27:36 PM
I think that you may now find a load of bookkeepers camped on your doorstep harassing your customers on the way into the building.
You may have accidentally discovered a goldmine of potential clients there so yet another reason to keep with the day job until the bookkeeping business is fully established... And maybe a little beyond.
On the two questions my answers would be (1) hadn't thought of it till now (so thanks for the heads up) and (2) Clients paperwork gets return to the client except for the permanent file. So far I'm not needing additional storage but for non sensitive(#1) information that needs to be stored for six years (plus one) or longer I can see that being a viable option where additional space is required.
Good luck in your studies. If you get stuck on anything don't forget that you can always ask on here as the books seem to quite often skim over some points assuming them to be obvious when sometimes they're not. (having an issue myself with when in group accounts profit unrealised in inventory goes to net assets rather than retained earnings in the consolidation calculations as in the books they seem interchangable rather than constant but the results mean that goodwill and non controlling interest figures going to the financial statements are totally different (can you hear me screaming on the inside!!!)).
Thanks for the heads up on self storage facilities, I'm too busy at the moment but think I'll be paying my local sorage sites a visit in December / January... I would imagine that like us January will be your busiest time with people clearing out post xmas?
talk later,
Shaun.
#1 I know that it's secure storage but I'm just paranoid when it comes to client data. Think that it's all those years working in banking that have ingrained a data security mindset on me.
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