Gavin ShieldsCEO Driving Innovation in Self Storage Tech

Container self storage success - A How to Guide | Self Storage Explained Podcast

13 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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This YouTube podcast (by Gavin Shields) offers practical advice for starting a container self-storage business. The speaker emphasizes approaching the venture with a success mindset, starting correctly from day one (site layout, systems, security), and warns that many operators begin with only a few containers but may rapidly scale to hundreds—making early mistakes costly and hard to fix.

I always say to people with self storage, just start with the thought that it's going to be a great success. Yes. We speak to so many people and they start self storage with like, nine or 10 containers and before they know it, they've got hundreds. Yeah. So. And if you don't start right, it's. It's a bit of a nightmare to. To catch up on it and. Yeah, then correct all the things you did wrong in terms like laying out the site, the systems you use, the security. Just get it right from the start because before you know it, it's going to, it's going to take off.