Portable Storage Blog - SmartBox USA

Secure Document Storage

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:41:58 +0000

Let SMARTBOX assist you with your document storage needs. From legal documents, company records, tax documents, payroll receipts and personnel information, SMARTBOX has the soultion for you. Use SMARTBOX mobile storage containers for quick on site projects, or for longer term storage, rely on our secure, climate controlled facilities for storage that you can depend on. Don’t leave your company open to non compliance issues, duplication costs or future law suits. With SMARTBOX Document Storage, yuo have on demand access to your important documents. Our document storage services also allow you to maximize your office square footage. Don’t worry about expanding your workspace when you can simply make more room by storing your documents off site. Here are some tips to help you prepare to store your documents:

Step 1. Load Label Names

Enter or import the names to be used to help identify file folders. You can optionally assign your own category, such as Customers, Vendors, or Employees, to each label name.

Step 2. Setup Your Document Types

Enter the types of documents to be stored in file folders, along with how long they must be stored. You can also assign your own category, such as Payables or Receivables, to each document type.

Step 3. Create File Folders

Combine lable names and document types to create a file folders. Print labels to put on you file folders in a wide variety of Avery style formats automatically as you create the file folders.

Step 4. Make Storage Boxes

Now you are ready to assign folders to storage boxes. Select the folders that got placed in the same box. The Store Until date will be automatically calculated based on the type of documents you place in the box, and the date the box was placed into storage. Assign a location to each storage box to help find the box when you need a folder in it.

SMARTBOX Locations

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:12:46 +0000

Are you in need of storage or moving help? Trying to figure out who the best choices are in your neighborhood? SMARTBOX Portable Self Storage is proud to be the premier, full service mobile storage provider in over 18 major U.S. cities and has the ability to facilitate long distance moves in 65 of the largest markets in the country. For a full list of service areas, either choose the Franchise Directory link on the bottom of each page on the SMARTBOX website, or enter your zip code next to the grey magnifying glass on the site’s main page for pertinent local information.

Home Staging Tips

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:25:55 +0000

With a surplus of houses for sale, clogging up the real estate market, it is essential that every step is made to make your house appear better to potential buyers. Home staging is the strategic process of “decluttering” your home, creating a more spacious and accommodating setting to attract positive attention from buyers and their agents. SMARTBOX understands the importance of home staging, helping provide the ultimate solution for those looking to clear out bulky or cluttered areas in order to help sell their homes. With the SMARTBOX Portable Storage system, users can either keep their belongings on site for hassle free, easy access, or they can choose to have the belongings stored at one of SMARTBOX’s secure storage facilities. Here are several tips for staging your home:

Eliminate all clutter. Homes look bigger and more stylish without any clutter. Many stagers have the clients move out entirely, and the stagers bring in their own items. Take all of the pictures off of the refrigerator, remove any stacks of paper on your desk, etc. Also, having a professional house cleaning service come in and do a thorough once-over is almost always well worth the cost.
Fresh paint can make a real difference. It is the frosting on the cake. Use colors that will appeal to the greatest number of people. You may prefer something bolder or outrageous for yourself, but when selling a house, neutral-colored interior paints work best. Also, replace any worn carpets or other flooring. If you have hardwood floors that are in rough shape, having them refinished can often return many times the cost of the refinishing, and sell the home much faster.
In many parts of the country homes are shown with no window coverings at all. This creates an open and airy feeling.
Make sure there are no unpleasant pet or cooking odors. Some sellers now bake cookies for the open house, creating a warm feeling in they buyer’s mind.
Use size-appropriate furniture. If you have a small bedroom, don’t put a king-sized bed in there. Conversely, if you have a huge master suite, putting a single bed in there would look unbalanced
Leave the lights on even during the day to make the home as bright as possible.

New SMARTBOX Website

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:03:22 +0000

SMARTBOX is proud to announce the new, state-of-the-art, SMARTBOX USA website. Launched in December, the new website boasts cutting edge video technology with an advanced logistics and quote generating engine. The new site has greatly increased the breadth of information available for consumers researching and purchasing portable self storage. Across the new site, customers will find information pertaining to portable storage, mobile storage, document storage, local moving, long distance moving, and seasonal storage. Customers will also have the ability to generate a quote for both storage and curb to curb moving. Along with the quote generation feature, each individual SMARTBOX location will offer multiple pages, offering information specific to service areas and promotions pertinent to their local customers.

Look for SMARTBOX on Yelp!

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:19:06 +0000

Unfamiliar with Yelp? Yelp, Inc. is a Web 2.0 company that operates a social networking, user review, and local search web site of the same name, combining features from traditional Internet yellow pages sites such as Yellowpages.com, local city guide sites such as Citysearch, and community-oriented social media sites like Facebook and Myspace. Over 10.6 million people access the Yelp web site each month, putting it in the top 100 of U.S. Internet web sites.Look for reviews for SMARTBOX Portable Self Storage and other local companies at yelp.com. Even better, express your opinions and feelings regarding your experience with SMARTBOX and their staff. Simply surf your way over to yelp.com and enter the word SMARTBOX and your city and zip code, or browse for us under “home services” or “local services.” SMARTBOX Portable Self Storage is categorized as both Movers and Self Storage under these headings.

SMARTBOX throughout the US

Greg Kaufman — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:45:25 +0000

It’s been coming up more and more lately - people asking where we provide sevice. This map shows where we currently have SMARTBOX franchise locations (those are the red squares) and also shows where we can provide long distance service as well (the yellow-ish circles). We can provide long distance to all the marks you see on the map via SMARTCARE - the long distance moving division of SMARTBOX.

So whether your needs are strictly moving, strictly storage or a mix of both - SMARTBOX has a solution and likely has a location near you. Even better, if we don’t have a location by you today, we may tomorrow! We’re growing all the time!! Maybe you know someone that wants to own their own SMARTBOX Franchise??!

So think about SMARTBOX for your local and long distance moving needs and give us a call - 1-87-SMARTBOX!