Self-Storage Expert Anne Ballard Hosts MiniCo Webinar Focused on Helping Owners Find "Hidden Money" and Improve Income

Phoenix, AZ, June 15, 2010 --(PR.com)-- On June 23, 2010, M. Anne Ballard, known throughout the self-storage industry as “the hat lady,” will present a free webinar entitled “Finding Hidden Money in Your Store’s Operating Reports.” The presentation will discuss techniques self-storage facility owners may use to find “hidden money” inside a store’s operating reports in order to improve income. Topics will include the following:

· Specific actions to improve store income in 2010
· The benefits of balancing and making deposits daily
· Writing successful rate-increase letters
· Management techniques for achieving monthly income goals

Ms. Ballard is the president and founder of Universal Management Company, the sponsor of the webinar, and a longtime top operator in the self-storage industry. The company provides professional, unbiased third-party management services backed by extensive self-storage industry knowledge and experience. Ms. Ballard is a frequent speaker at self‑storage industry conventions and workshops and a regular contributor to the “Mini‑Storage Messenger,” “Self‑Storage Almanac,” and other self-storage publications. Her latest book is “The Hat Lady Speaks: Marketing Self-Storage.”

“Finding Hidden Money in Your Store’s Operating Reports” will be hosted by MiniCo Publishing as part of the ongoing Mini-Storage Messenger Self-Storage Webinar Series, which offers informative monthly webinars free of charge to self-storage professionals and other individuals. Publisher Poppy Behrens will moderate the presentation. For more information or to register, visit www.ministoragemessenger.com. Online registration is required for this free live event.

MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC, publishes the “Mini-Storage Messenger,” the leading monthly trade magazine covering the global self-storage industry. Other publications include “Self-Storage Now!,” “Mobile Self-Storage Magazine,” “RV & Boat Storage Today,” “Self‑Storage Canada,” the “Self-Storage Almanac,” the “Self-Storage Development Handbook,” and the “Self‑Storage Buyer’s Guide.”

Since 1974, Phoenix-based MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC, has been a self-storage leader providing superior specialty insurance programs, informative publications and valuable products and services created expressly for the self‑storage industry.

For More Information:
Universal Management Company – www.universalmanagementcompany.com

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