Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- How to avoid being scammed by movers
- 10-K: STRATEGIC STRAGE TRUST INC.
- Selling Your College Business
- IBM leads techs in seeking open “cloud” computing
- Go Mini’s(R) Announces New Portable Moving & Storage Website

How to avoid being scammed by movers
msnbc.com
Here?s how to make your moving bill match the estimate given ? and get your furniture delivered in one piece and on time.   The Big Scams?The Hostage?You get a lowball estimate from a moving company but once they?ve loaded your furniture on their truck they change the charges sometimes doubling or tripling their original quote. If you balk at the number they simply refuse to give you your belongings until you agree to the inflated price. Story continues below ?advertisement |.

10-K: STRATEGIC STRAGE TRUST INC.
MarketWatch (press release)
n March 17 2008 the SEC declared our registration statement effective. n May 22 2008 we satisfied the minimum offering requirements of the Primary ffering and commenced formal operations. As of December 31 2008 we had issued approximately 2. 1 million shares of our common stock for gross proceeds of approximately $20. In addition to being the sponsor of our ffering our Sponsor owns a majority of Strategic Storage Holdings LLC which is the sole member of our Advisor and our Property Manager. n September 25 2008 we closed on the purchase of our first two self storage facilities located in Biloxi Mississippi and Gulf Breeze Florida.

Selling Your College Business
msnbc.com
Chiefamong them: When how to whom and for how much do you sell?Josh Kowitt and Scott Neuberger learned the answers to many ofthese questions during their sale of CollegeBoxes the moving andstorage company they built while attending Washington University. After graduating in 2003 and 2004 respectively the two continuedgrowing the company. But by 2007 they were ready for a lifestylechange. “We were coming up on our eighth year in the business andlooking for some diversity in our lives” says Neuberger 28. Story continues below ?advertisement |.

IBM leads techs in seeking open “cloud” computing
Reuters
The tech industry is under pressure to encourage businesses to adopt cloud computing technologies which could help them save money by outsourcing part of their IT operations to mega-data centers that can achieve huge economies of scale. Besides issues of compatibility companies worry about the security implications of storing information at remote computer centers and moving it across the Internet. Tech researcher Gartner Inc estimates that the market for cloud-based business software computing services and storage from companies including Salesforce. com Inc Microsoft and IBM will total about $10 billion this year. That’s just a fraction of the $223 billion that Gartner is projecting for the business software market alone. IBM sees the manifesto as a first step toward establishing specific standards so customers can confidently switch between cloud-computing providers said Irving Wladawski-Berger chairman emeritus of the IBM Academy of Technology.
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Go Mini’s(R) Announces New Portable Moving & Storage Website
FXBusiness
The Go Mini’s website is the result of more than six (6) months of strategic brand analysis and planning. “The Go Mini’s website reflects an effort to provide customers with state-of-the-art features to make their experience with portable moving and storage simple and hassle free” said Bill Norris CE of Go Mini’s. “Many consumers are still not familiar with the many advantages that portable moving and storage solutions offer over services provided by conventional moving companies and we wanted to provide the marketplace with a destination where they could learn how to make their move more affordable convenient and flexible. The new website was an obvious way to accomplish this goal” said Norris. When asked to comment on the new website Mr. Norris stated: “We wanted to try something a little different and provide individuals and business with tools and features previously unavailable in our industry. We just felt it was time for our industry to offer consumers the same types of applications that they’re used to seeing on other websites in other industries” Mr.