I have been with Storage King for 5 years now and have been lucky enough
to start up 3 new facilities and help convert another into a Storage King
Facility.
Being that we are so isolated from our partners in the eastern states it
was little daunting to setup Storage King Midland – the first in the wild west
with little or no knowledge of Storage or what a cubic metre was. It was
a little overwhelming to walk down the corridors of a facility that was still
being built and I honestly began to wonder what I had got myself into.
With 2 weeks training in Melbourne I was packed up and sent on my horse and
cart back to Perth to start TEAM WA J
We now have 6 sites here covering all for corners of our city that is
expanding at a great rate of knots. The latest site I have been setting
up is Storage King Forrestdale, which is located in the back blocks of nowhere
(Google it). The area here is very diverse and with over 30% of homes
being rented and not owned meant we had to use a different tack with our
marketing and broaden our horizons to cover some more rural properties that use
Armadale as the shopping hub.
Over the time one of the important things I have learnt is you NEVER
know who you are dealing with here. I have met Coffee Plantation owners from
South America, an old bloke who looked rougher than a stray dog who owned 2
mines, and a real bush character who drives 4 hours every two weeks, then
flies on a plane for another 2 hours to get to work .
Lesson here is to treat everyone the same and you will be successful
within your Kingdom and never judge a book by its cover no matter what!