The Movers and Storers Show at the end of last year featured its established Seminar Theatre with speakers offering advice on a range of industry-related topics all designed to help business owners and managers stay sharp and perform better.
This year the theatre itself was more centrally located to encourage greater participation. Most of the sessions were well attended with the audience taking an active interest in the presentations.
The UK housing market
Marlon Waters and Matthew Iskandar from Twenty Ci Group, a residential property data analytics and marketing company, provided an insight into the movements in the UK housing market and speculated on likely developments during 2024 ...
Security in self storage
Sarah Manning, Managing Director of Secure Stores Nationwide and Ant Hebblethwaite, Sales Manager of Doncaster Security Operations Centre (DSOC), offered advice on ways of maintaining security in self storage sites ...
Getting the best from Google Ads
Laura Moxham from Your Business Angels (YBA) gave some tips on how to generate your own leads using Google advertising. She said that some people say that Google ads don't work because the price per click is too high, but by using the service better that price can come down ...
How and why to get into self storage
Sarah Manning of Secure Stores Nationwide and Phil Austin, Sales Manager for Janus, provided a brief self storage market overview and gave useful advice to anyone considering setting up their own self storage business ...
Protecting your greatest asset
The Seminar Theatre hosted a panel debate to explore the issue of employment and staff retention in the moving industry. Ian Studd, Director General of the BAR hosted, with panellists Andrew Pearson from Andrew Pearson Training and Caroline Seear from Red Recruit ...
The present and future of self storage
In the first of two presentations Rennie Schafer, CEO of the Self Storage Association (SSA), looked at the current market for self storage and how it has changed over the recent past ...
Focusing on sustainability
Vicki Watson from BAR Services, a materials supply company for the UK moving industry, offered thoughts on sustainability to help movers transition as the world focusses on the environment ...
Photo: Rennie Schafer, CEO of the Self Storage Association.