Beyond the Box

May 11th, 2010 by Matt DiChiara| Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Hello everyone, we’ve got a special guest article by Phil Murphy, founder and owner of Storage By The Box; they’ve come up with a great new way for renters to store some of the things they can’t quite fit into their apartments.

By Phil Murphy, founder, owner Storage By The Box

While dining with friends in New York City, an idea developed for an innovative storage concept. During dinner, my friend shared a rather unpleasant story of hiring a cab to travel across town to deposit storage items and make space for a new roommate.

His experience was both expensive and inconvenient. And the funny thing is, my friend told me this was a fairly common way for city dwellers to move out of an apartment or move things into temporary storage.

It was this unpleasant experience with traditional storage facilities that helped give birth to a new approach to temporary storage, an online-based solution I call Storage By The Box (storagebythebox.com).

(You had better run up the stairs at our apartment! – editor)

Storage by the Box customers never have to leave their home or office, and only pay for the amount of storage that they need. With the click of a mouse, customers can request free boxes and shipping materials, stuff the boxes and ship them back to Storage by the Box. And because not everything you own actually fits in a box, oversized items such as skis, surfboards or golf clubs are also accepted.

The items are stored on shelves in a climate-controlled building that also offers 24/7 video camera monitoring and a top-of-the-line fire alarm and fire suppression system.

Another problem with many self-storage solutions is that after renting a space, you fill it up with a number of boxes as quickly as possible, with little sense of organization. But what happens if you need to retrieve a box from your space? Then you have to drive to the storage facility, then spend hours going through all the contents of your storage container before finding the item you need, then spend more time repacking everything.

With Storage By The Box, if a customer needs an item, they simply send an email to request that it be FedExed back to them, at no additional cost. This process is easy because customers are asked to either label or even photograph the contents of each box they have sent to us, and they can then quickly access their entire inventory through an online account. When a customer wants to retrieve an item, they look at the pictures online and select the specific item or box they want returned.

No other company in the industry offers an easier or more cost-effective way to store personal items, seasonal household belongings, business records or any other variety of items.

The easiest way to learn more about Storage by the Box and how it works is to visit http://www.storagebythebox.com/how-it-works.aspx. The 2-minute video depicts the Storage by the Box process from start to finish. Additional information can be accessed at www.storagebythebox.com or by calling 888-929-8432.