Gavin ShieldsCEO Driving Innovation in Self Storage Tech

Running a Self Storage Facility Business From the Beach

11 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A first-person anecdote by Gavin Shields recounting managing a self-storage website remotely from a beach in Tenerife. He describes receiving two customer calls, taking payment details by phone, and immediately granting access — noting each new customer represents substantial revenue (roughly £1k–£2k), and reflecting that the business runs largely automatically.

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Whenever I started my site, I remember I was in Tenerife for two weeks in January. It was my first, it was my fourth or fifth month since I opened the site. And I went down to the beach and I got two phone calls while I was on the beach. Took the payment details off them on the phone. Yeah, one person after the other in a half an hour. And the booth just moved in straight away. I just gave them the access. Now, they wouldn't need to ring me. And it would all probably happen through store. It would all happen automatically. But I remember just thinking, like, I'm landing beach here and I've just, you know, each customer's worth a couple of grand probably, you know, on average, or a thousand or two thousand pounds. You know, I've just made a couple of thousand pounds, probably here. What a great business. Yeah.