Although spring is the perfect time to give your business a bit of a clean and declutter, you don’t have to wait. It’s perfectly acceptable, and a great idea, to do it at regular intervals throughout the year. It’s always amazing how much paraphernalia accumulates over the year, and it is worth taking a small amount of time at the end of each day to get your decluttering done and dusted.
At Instore Storage, we like to provide our customers and followers with real-world examples of how storage applies to various situations. That’s because we want to be informative and give some context about how it benefits people. Online blogs are sometimes slightly vague and miss the most important aspect of highlighting how to apply storage.
When we think about how we store things, the default position is to keep everything at home or in the office, where we have dedicated rooms or spaces. The problem with this begins when space runs out, and we start cramming things on top of wardrobes and under beds. For a workplace, change this to a back office or buying more filing cabinets.
Before you know it, you don’t have anywhere else for things to go. Not only that, you’ve lost a number of rooms in the process, and it starts to become a major problem, specifically for businesses where compliance and spacing regulations are strict. That’s why it’s important to consider how you’re currently storing things and whether it’s the best choice to do it yourself.
Instore Storage is your local business storage close to Gillingham, our closest town, with a train to our warehouses. Why go any distance with your important business documentation? If you have found yourself at that ‘end-of-year time’, now is the perfect moment to consider what to do for your business storage needs. Whether you want to clear office space or you’re a business wanting to store your annual paperwork, legal documents, or business-critical information, we can help.
Well, we did it again, another year another brilliant festival, our Glastonbury storage clients were, we hope, over the moon or should I say high as a kite with our services this year.
But, I’m jumping ahead of myself, we’re storage specialists with an in-depth knowledge of possessions and how people interact with their possessions, their cares, likes and dislikes. But Glastonbury is something different and we are very well-positioned to help all sorts of businesses and people with their storage needs over the Glastonbury Festival.
And, before you start to think we’re some sort of cloakroom service for coats and peoples bags and what not. That’s not us either. We much further in the background than that, and that’s something we really rather like. We’re facilitators with a facility.
What we offer is storage for the 360 days that the Festival is not on. All the time that Glastonbury Festival is just a lovely green field, that is when we’re active. We are on-call 24/7 all year-round, but if you are a band, a marquee company or a Pop-Up Hotel or caterer and you have any special kit for Glasto and perhaps a few other festivals then we’re the people you should be in touch with.
Our service is complimentary, we can pick up or delivery, we can arrange for your kit to be in the right place at the right time, if you need it a few weeks in advance we can have it there. But not only that we can provide a venue for you to clean the kit, scrub everything down, dry it out, mend, repair or take delivery of new or replacement kit. We’re partners to anyone wanting to store their possessions ready for Glastonbury.
To be honest, it gets hectic, it one of the busiest times of year for us, phone calls, organising, making sure we have the right vans in the right place is logistical, but that’s what makes our Glastonbury storage so much fun for us. It is a challenge, we turn up the volume and enjoy it all. Plus we get to see the behind the scenes at the venue.
If you need storage personal or business – try us, get a quote or give us a call.
Yes we live in the country and yes Internet Access has been an issue in the countryside – but it is much improved today. What I want to look at now is IT Storage and Data Storage for businesses and why you might need it – or not as the case may be.
Regulation – is the main word that sums it all up. In the good ol’ days you used to have to store every Invoice, every expense and every piece of information for your business for years, in fact most companies just stored everything for ever. But the world has moved on and with the Internet things are changing.
Today we have the so-called ‘Cloud’ – the concept is fabulous, you save an email on your PC and it’s automatically up their in the sky waiting until someone needs it it again. Same for Invoicing, suppliers, addresses, we’re all connected on our phones, at home and much begrudgingly to me wife when we’re on holiday as well. In fact I can even write these articles and the data is saves for posterity forever.
However – all too often we hear of people with broken computers, they can’t find their document, or something didn’t save somewhere it should have and this leads to a huge regulatory problem, not only are you probably not saving your documents properly, but you’re opening yourself up to serious problems should the VAT man ever come and check up on you.
There is also something called a Disaster Recovery Plan – that every business should have so that if there is a true disaster such as a fire or other emergency you could be covered and up and running within a minimal amount of time.
In steps – inStore Storage Solutions – as part of the Disaster Recovery Plan you would allow or delivery to inStore a regular back up of all data and document storage that is important to your business. Our data storage experts would be the 3rd party outside off-premise storage facilitators for your company needs.
We have the hardware and computers for this operation and we also allow you to put in your own hardware as required into our storage facility, where-upon we can take responsibility for the storage of your data as needed. Should you ever need to use it – it could be made available to you 24/7 around the clock.
We do live in the country, but with super fast broadband available here there is no reason why our location should ever matter to a large business organisation needing a place for data Storage.
Thinking of an Office move – These are certainly uncertain times for all of us in the UK, pro-Brexit, pro-Europe – we aren’t fussy or going to mind, a general election has been called to make matters more fun, what are we talking about here. Business in the country-side. Even in our local town of Mere, The Hill Brush Factory, a stalwart of the last 70 years has moved to completely new Warehousing and Offices within the same town. Should you be thinking of an office move as well?
Here’s the rub – from our point of view of course – Space equals money… offices in Gillingham, Frome or Warminster re priced up at a fixed square foot rate, so too are business rates and probably a few other aspects. Office Space has never been at more of premium than now. The mission then must be to use it wisely. Why are you thinking to move office? expansion, consolidation, even the act of moving office is an investment right now. And how can we be sure it will be in the interests of your business.
Well worry not – we’re not going to past judgement on any motivation you might have for your office move, but what we would say is use you space for your staff. and then use us for Storage. Old accounts, paperwork, regulation stuff that you simply don’t need any more. We are here to help.
Our business service makes economic sense, you use us at £10 per container per week and the space we can save you will mean another employee, or a room less in Business Rates, either way it’s more productivity or huge savings.
Our service means that you can be flexible, let us know when you’re coming to collect something or have it posted, delivered or collected we don’t mind… notify us or just send an email informing us of your needs, we’re happy to respond and fulfil your needs. Everything is protected 27/7, under lock and key and we’re connected to the local police station.
Most Offices have a box room these days – a place to easily store stuff… but it is both expensive and unnecessary with inStore – your local and flexible storage units. If you’re planning an office move – please feel free to give us a call and make it profitable.
Storage for business is a big part of our warehouse, with a lot of companies storing their items with us all year around. We provide all manner of different business requirements at our warehouses, whether its something completely different. We are here to help.
inStore will attend your offices, either during the week or even over the weekend whichever suits : We will pack up everything down to the last drawing pin, hefting and carrying as part of a methodical, managed operation; deposit it in consignments into storage and/or its correct destination exactly as designated ; and provide you with a detailed Inventory Report for your retention.
You, the Client, can have any level of input you wish for: from micro-management to leaving the entire exercise to us to fulfil precisely to programme.
Small businesses like Pop up Hotel for festivals and events which need to store their tents and teepee equipment for set-up. This client runs everything from private events and parties to fully blown festivals, creating a ‘glamping’ experience like no other. Pop up also takes an office in the our building where we co-manage their logistical operations.
Pink House Mustique is another. A high-end clothing company that we accept deliveries of that come in from the US to be sorted and packed awaiting fulfilment or further shipping. Pink House Mustique has been working with us to create a strong trust across product creation to the detailed satisfaction of the customer when it arrives on their door step, we are a central part of their operation.
We would love to hear from you if you are interested in getting in contact with us regarding a Quote. Or even just to have a chat about what we do. Please do – email us or give us a ring anytime:- you can find our day time number on the Contact Page. We will be pleased to discuss any project, no matter how embryonic or complex.
