Customer acquisition for container & self storage · UK

We fill storage yards.

Our job is to keep you fully occupied — so your yard makes the money it was built to make.

The average UK container yard is losing

£28,800 a year

Empty units at the industry-average 75% occupancy — on a typical 80-unit yard — while the land, security and finance costs carry on regardless.

Occupancy: SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield Annual Industry Report 2025
The problem — and the fix
Your problem

Empty units. Constant churn. Price-shoppers.

Storage demand is out there — but it's needs-based. Nobody wants a container until the day they suddenly do. So yards sit part-empty waiting for the phone to ring, and too many of the customers who do call are short-stay domestic movers who leave within weeks and haggle on price.

A 48-unit yard at the 75% averageOCCUPANCY 75%
12 UNITS EARNING £0≈ £17,280 LOST PER YEAR
Our fix

Be the yard every local business already knows.

We identify every business in your catchment likely to need storage — builders, installers, online sellers, event companies — and contact them politely, personally, once a month.

Not a hard sell. A steady, low-key presence — so the day their lock-up floods or the garage overflows with stock, you're the first call, not a Google search that lands on your competitor.

Business customers stay years, not weeks. More of them means higher occupancy, lower churn — and eventually a queue: people waiting for a unit at your yard, instead of units waiting for people.

The cost of empty units

Put your numbers in.

No yard runs at 100% — customers leave, and re-letting takes time. That's exactly why churn and re-let speed matter as much as demand. Put your real figures in and see what the gap is costing you.

Industry average is 75% (SSA UK 2025)

Your realistic ceiling is below 100% — churn always leaves some units cycling. The question is how far below, and how much of the rest you've filled.

Where you are now
Empty units today20
Lost revenue per year at current occupancy£28,800
Your realistic ceiling, given your churn & re-let time96%
With more long-stay business customers
Ceiling if churn drops & enquiries arrive constantly98%
Revenue recovered per year if you close the gap£21,600

Based on your figures: fewer move-outs (business customers stay 24+ months vs weeks for domestic — SSA UK 2025) and faster re-lets when enquiries arrive every week instead of when the sign gets noticed. One long-stay customer at your rent is worth £2,880 over a typical 24-month stay.

The result we sell

We get you the better customers — the ones who stay.

Anyone can send traffic. The result we're after is different: the cream of your local market — tradespeople, installers, online sellers, established firms — signed up, settled in, and still paying two years later.

That changes the shape of your business: higher occupancy, because demand keeps arriving. Lower churn, because business customers don't move out after six weeks. Steadier revenue, because the units stay filled by people who treat storage as part of how they operate, not a one-off emergency.

And when the yard is full? The system keeps running — building the queue of businesses waiting for the next unit that comes free.

  • 24+ months Typical stay of a business storage customer — against weeks for domestic movers SSA UK Annual Industry Report 2025
  • ~100% Margin on filling a container you already own — the costs run whether it's full or empty
  • 75% Average UK site occupancy — the gap between average and full is the prize SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield 2025
How we get you there

An always-on system, built around your yard.

Set up once, then it runs every month. Here's the mechanism — no mystery, no jargon.

WEEK 1–2

We map your catchment

Most storage customers come from within a 15–20 minute drive. We build a verified database of every relevant business inside yours — who they are, what trade they're in, who runs them. For a typical site that's 2,000–3,500 businesses, from sole-trader electricians to growing e-commerce firms, plus your competitors and how you sit against them.

EVERY MONTH

Every one of them hears from you

Each business receives a short, personal email in your facility's name, written for their trade — a builder gets a different message from an eBay seller. Once a month, politely, often with a simple offer. Over a 3-month campaign that's roughly 9,000–10,000 personalised contacts — every relevant business in your area, three times, without you lifting a finger.

EVERY MONTH

New businesses, referral partners

Every new company that registers in your catchment is contacted inside its first 30 days — before they've solved their space problem and before your competitors know they exist. Alongside that, we open relationships with the estate agents, removal firms and solicitors whose clients need storage every single week.

ALWAYS

Enquiries land with you — calls and clicks

Everything points at your phone and your website. Interested businesses call you or enquire directly; awareness compounds month after month, so enquiries keep arriving even when you're full — which is how a genuine waitlist gets built. We'll also cast an eye over how enquiries reach you, because every enquiry is only worth what you convert.

Who hears about you

The customers who stay for years.

Domestic movers are price-sensitive and gone in weeks. Business customers treat storage as infrastructure — and they're the ones we put your name in front of.

Most business storage users stay more than 24 months — while typical domestic customers stay a matter of weeks. Every domestic unit converted to a business customer is occupancy that stays occupied.

SSA UK Annual Industry Report

Direct customers

Trades & installersTools, materials and van overflow — builders, electricians, plumbers, kitchen and bathroom fitters, landscapers
Online sellersStock for Amazon, eBay and independent retail — growing out of the garage
Event & leisure companiesKit and equipment between jobs, seasonal stock
Property & facilitiesDevelopers, landlords and FM companies staging materials between projects
New businessesCompanies registered in your area this month — space needs, no premises yet

Referral partners

Estate & letting agentsEvery completion and tenancy change creates a storage need
Removal companiesStorage between moves — a customer they can't serve themselves
Probate & conveyancing solicitorsHouse contents that need somewhere to go, often for months
House clearance & property managersRegular, repeat referrers once the relationship exists
What we report

Our numbers are open. The result shows up in yours.

Every month you see exactly who we contacted and what came back. The enquiries land on your phone and your website — and the proof is your occupancy figure, which only you can see and no agency should pretend to measure for you.

Pricing

It starts with a free Occupancy Review.

Every programme runs as a 3-month campaign. At the end of it we sit down together and compare your occupancy, then vs now. If it's working — and storage demand never stops — it rolls on monthly. If it isn't, you walk away.

Free Occupancy Review — know your number

We review your occupancy, unit values, churn, catchment and competition, then tell you exactly what a fuller yard is worth to you each year and where the customers will come from. Yours to keep, whatever you decide. No cost, no obligation.

Book your free review

Starter

£395 /month
3-month campaign · then rolling monthly
What you get
  • Full catchment mapped — every relevant business identified and verified
  • Complete monthly coverage — every business contacted, personalised by trade
  • Outreach in your facility's name
  • Monthly report: contacted, replies, enquiries
Start with a free review
Most chosen

Growth

£595 /month
3-month campaign · then rolling monthly
Everything in Starter, plus
  • New business monitor — every company registered in your catchment, contacted within 30 days
  • Referral partner development — estate agents, removals, solicitors
  • Enquiry & conversion review — response times, phone handling, follow-up
  • Always-on enquiry flow — so when you're full, you can run a genuine waitlist
Start with a free review

Scale

£895 /month
3-month campaign · then rolling monthly
Everything in Growth, plus
  • Up to three facilities under one programme
  • Overlapping catchments managed as one territory
  • Quarterly occupancy strategy call
  • Priority campaign support
Start with a free review
Free Occupancy Review

Find out what a fuller yard is worth to you.

Call or email — we'll work through your occupancy, churn and catchment together, and give you the number in pounds. If it doesn't stack up for your site, we'll tell you that too.

One tap — it rings or opens an email straight to us. Direct line, no gatekeepers.