Customer acquisition for container & self storage · UK

We fill storage yards.

Targeted outreach to relevant local businesses. Google Ads on your catchment. Your Maps listing rebuilt. Everything a yard needs to fill up — done for you.

An 80-unit yard at 75% occupancy, charging £120 a unit, has

£28,800 a year

of vacant-unit rental value sitting empty — while the land, security and finance costs carry on regardless. 75% is the UK industry average occupancy. What is your number?

Average occupancy: SSA UK / Cushman & Wakefield Annual Industry Report 2025 · Illustrative example

£495/month AFTER THE FREE SETUP MONTH · AD SPEND PAID DIRECTLY BY YOU · FOUNDER-RUN

Every way a customer can find you — covered.

Storage customers come from three places: businesses that will need space soon, people searching Google right now, and people checking you out on Maps. Most yards cover one of the three, badly. We run all three. That's the whole point.

Channel 01

Local business outreach

Relevant businesses around your yard — builders, installers, online sellers, new companies the week they register — identified, segmented and contacted through controlled, trade-specific campaigns in your name, with frequency limits and opt-outs honoured. Business users can be especially valuable: many treat storage as operational infrastructure, stay longer and take multiple units. Nobody else does this for storage.

Channel 02

Google Ads, managed

We build, run and tune a campaign that puts your site in front of relevant local searchers — "storage near me" and every search like it, targeted tight to your catchment. You fund the ad spend directly with Google on your own account — we never touch it or mark it up.

Channel 03

Google Maps listing, sorted

Your Google Business Profile set up or fully rebuilt — categories, photos, hours, posts, review generation — so everyone the emails and ads send your way sees a yard worth choosing. The full rebuild is included in your free month; after that we keep reporting on it and recommending monthly actions.

All three: £495 a month. First month free.
3-month programme. Catchment mapped, outreach running, ads live, Maps listing rebuilt — all set up in your free month.
Start with your free report
Free Occupancy Report

Your postcode. Your market. In writing. Free.

Before you spend a penny, we'll build you a report on your actual catchment — pulled from live data, specific to your yard:

  • Business demand — how many relevant businesses sit within 3 and 5 miles of your gate
  • Search demand — how many people near you search for storage every month
  • Your Google presence — how your listing looks against every competitor in your radius
  • The revenue gap — what filling your empty units is worth per year, in pounds

Get your free report

Three details (phone optional). No obligation, no chasing — the report is yours to keep either way.

TYPICALLY WITH YOU WITHIN 2 WORKING DAYS

We only use these details to build and send your report. Never shared, never sold, no mailing lists.

Report on its way.

We'll have your catchment report with you within 2 working days. Keep an eye on your inbox — and your phone, in case we need to check a detail.

The problem — and the fix
Your problem

Empty units. Constant churn. Price-shoppers.

Storage demand is 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 callers are short-stay domestic movers who leave within weeks and haggle on price.

Illustration: a 48-unit yard at the 75% averageOCCUPANCY 75%
12 UNITS EARNING £0≈ £17,280 LOST PER YEAR

ILLUSTRATION OF THE MECHANISM — NOT A PROJECTED OR GUARANTEED RESULT

Our fix

Own every route into your yard.

The businesses who'll need space soon hear from you every month — politely, personally — so you're the first call when the lock-up floods or the garage overflows with stock.

The people searching right now see your site put in front of them on Google, targeted tight to your catchment. Everyone who checks you out lands on a Maps listing built to win the enquiry.

The cost of empty units

Put your numbers in.

No yard runs at 100% — customers leave, and re-letting takes time. The useful question is how much of your vacancy is normal churn, and how much is unfilled capacity that demand could address. Put your real figures in.

Count lettable units, not containers — a split 20ft container is two units

Count rentable units, not containers — a split 20ft box is two or three units. Mixed sizes? Use your average rent below.

UK industry average is ~75% (SSA UK) — context, not a target

No yard runs at 100% — some vacancy is just customers cycling through. This splits your vacancy into the part explained by normal churn and the part that's genuinely up for grabs.

Your vacancy today
Empty units right now20
Vacant-unit rental value per year£28,800
What that vacancy is made of
Normal churn vacancy — the unavoidable gap between move-out and re-let at your figures£4,032
Vacancy beyond normal churn — capacity that stronger demand, faster response and better conversion may address£24,768

These figures are your own inputs, priced — not a promise. How much of the addressable gap is realistically recoverable depends on local demand, competition and how enquiries are handled — which is exactly what your free Occupancy Report weighs up. A customer paying £120/month is worth £2,880 in gross rent over 24 months, before costs.

How it works

Set up in your first month — free. Then it runs.

The first month is free because that's when we build everything — and we'd rather prove it than pitch it.

MONTH 1 — FREE

Everything gets built

We map every relevant business in your catchment — typically 3 miles, though your report confirms whether 3, 5 or a drive-time radius fits your site — build your Google Ads campaign on the same area, and set up or rebuild your Google Business Profile — photos, categories, hours, review flow. You pay nothing for month one. Walk away during it and you pay nothing at all — and keep the listing work.

EVERY MONTH

Businesses hear from you

Each relevant business in your catchment 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. New companies registering in your area are contacted inside their first 30 days, before your competitors know they exist.

EVERY DAY

Searchers find you first

Your ads run tight on the 3-mile radius, catching "storage near me" and every relevant local search. You fund the ad spend directly with Google on your own account — we recommend at least £300/month — and we tune the campaign continuously so the clicks are local and the calls are real.

EVERY MONTH

You see exactly what happened

One report in plain English: who we contacted, what came back, what the ads produced, what your listing did. Enquiries land on your phone and your website — and at the end of the 3-month programme we compare your occupancy, then vs now, together.

Who hears about you

Target the customers worth the most.

The ads catch everyone searching today. The outreach goes after business users — the customers who can produce longer, more valuable occupancy.

Business users can be especially valuable: many treat storage as ongoing operational infrastructure, stay longer than domestic movers and often take multiple units. More of them means steadier occupancy and less re-letting.

Customer tenure patterns: 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 what ran and what came back — outreach, ads and listing in one report. The proof is the movement in enquiries, re-let time, occupied space and monthly rental revenue — and where you share your yard data, we track those too.

Questions yard owners ask

The honest answers, before you ask.

Won't emailing local businesses every month annoy them?

Not the way we do it. One short, polite, personal email a month — written for their trade, in your facility's name, with a working unsubscribe that's honoured immediately. The businesses that don't need storage ignore it; the ones about to need it remember you — and anyone who opts out is suppressed permanently.

What do I actually have to do?

We create and track the demand — but conversion happens at your end. Your side of the deal: answer enquiries quickly, quote accurately, follow up, and tell us your move-ins, move-outs and occupancy each month so the reporting reflects reality. If nobody picks up the phone, no marketing system on earth fills a yard.

Who pays for the Google ad spend?

You do — directly to Google, on your own account. We recommend at least £300/month for a typical catchment. We never handle your ad budget and never mark it up, so every pound you put in buys clicks, not commission.

Why is the first month free?

Because month one is setup — mapping your catchment, building the ads, rebuilding your listing — and we'd rather prove the system than pitch it. Your card goes on file when you start, nothing is charged until day 30, and if you cancel during the free month you pay nothing at all — and keep the Google listing work with our compliments.

What happens after the 3-month programme?

We sit down together and compare your occupancy — then vs now. If it's working, it rolls on monthly and you can stop whenever you like. If it isn't, you walk away, no tie-ins, no exit fees.

Do you guarantee occupancy will go up?

No — and be wary of anyone who does. We control demand generation and we report it honestly; we do not control your pricing, your availability or how enquiries are handled. What we commit to: relevant businesses contacted on a controlled cycle, ads run and tuned on your account, your listing rebuilt, and plain-English reporting every month — with your occupancy reviewed together at the end of every programme.

My yard's already pretty full. Is this still worth it?

Often yes — for two reasons. Full today doesn't mean full after your next three move-outs, and a steady flow of enquiries lets you run a genuine waitlist and put your rates up. Yards with a queue at the gate don't discount. Get the free report and see what your catchment looks like before deciding.

Pricing

One system. One price. First month free.

No tiers to decode, no add-ons, no surprises. Everything on this page is included.

The system

The Occupancy System

£495 /month

3-MONTH PROGRAMME · MONTH ONE FREE
NO PAYMENT UNTIL DAY 30 · CANCEL IN YOUR FREE MONTH AND PAY NOTHING
THEN ROLLING MONTHLY — LEAVE ANYTIME

Everything included
  • Local business outreach — every relevant business within 3 miles, contacted monthly in your name
  • Google Ads built & managed — your catchment, your account, no mark-up ever
  • Google Business Profile — set up or rebuilt free in month one, no ongoing fee
  • New business monitor — companies registering near you, contacted within 30 days
  • One monthly report — outreach, ads and listing, in plain English
  • Occupancy review — your numbers, then vs now, at the end of every programme
Start with your free report

Multi-Site

£795 /month

SAME DEAL, SAME FREE MONTH
UP TO THREE FACILITIES

Everything in the system, plus
  • Up to three yards under one programme
  • Overlapping catchments managed as one territory
  • Quarterly occupancy strategy call
  • Priority support
Start with your free report
Why is month one free? Because that's when we build everything — the catchment map, the ads, the listing. We'd rather prove the system works than pitch you on it. Card on file at the start, first payment on day 30, cancel in the free month and you owe nothing.

Do the maths: two tenants at £120/month staying 24 months would generate £5,760 in gross rental revenue before costs — against £990 for the full 3-month programme. That is the scale of return this is playing for.

Prefer to talk it through?

Find out what a fuller yard is worth to you.

Get the free report above, or just get in touch — we'll work through your occupancy, catchment and search demand together, and give you the number in pounds. If it doesn't stack up for your site, we'll tell you that too.

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Founder-run. You deal directly with Richard — a data-led lead generation specialist who built the system, maps your catchment and writes your report personally. No account managers, no gatekeepers, no call centre.