10 months ago
10 months ago
10 months ago
Want to be a member of Team Box’er? We are hiring.
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If you’ve been keeping up with us, you know just how busy it’s been around our neck of the woods lately. Boxes are arriving, our facility is humming, media is calling and we are rolling out more convinient ways to store your stuff. All this activity; we need to spread the word about our award-winning company.
We are looking for talented, passionate people with great ideas, engaging and fun person alities to get the attention of New Yorkers…and thats not a task for the faint of heart.
Our street team (Team Box’er) is out and about every week in the Spring and early Summer to inform New Yorkers about StorageByMail.com’s money saving, headache soothing way to store your stuff from anywhere at anytime. StorageByMail takes the “self” out of self-storage. Instead of schlepping their earthly possessions to a concrete, shady cubicle, New Yorkers let us (and the Postal Service) do the heavy lifting and ship their boxes to a central warehouse shared by Bloomingdales and Tommy Hilfiger. Cool right?
Members of Team Box’ers are paid $15 per hour and also get discounts on storing your own stuff (valued at $100 per month). We work both indoors and outdoors to promote StorageByMail.com. Events include flyer distribution, and membership drives at busy locations in the city, festivals and other special events.
You will be a perfect match if you are:
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Outgoing and forward-thinking.
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A talker (to other people, not yourself).
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An influencer (can you talk someone into just about anything).
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A promoter of yourself and things you believe in.
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Someone who knows how to have fun!.
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Available to work two-three 5-6 hour shifts per week
If you you or someone you know is looking for a position in a young, start-up that knows how to have fun first, let us know!
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Send your resume, or summary of experience in an MS Word attachment or in the body of an email to mriley@storagebymail.com. Enter “Team Box’er” in subject line.
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Give a brief summary of why you would be awesome on our team!
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Be sure to include your current contact information.
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For more info about us, check out storagebymail.com
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10 months ago
Spring Clean Your Closets…Now!
The days are longer, the weather is warmer and you are dreaming of the days of frolicking outside with no layers on. At the same time you are dreaming of being out and about, your apartment walls feel like that are closing in on you especially with all the stuff you amassed over the winter during hibernation. Spring cleaning time!
Its a good time to share with our members a Spring-Cleaning your closet list so that you may go forth and spring clean. Let there be de-cluttering…and let it be good.
Think IN the box Tip # 249: Spring Cleaning Your Closet
1) We know it was cute when you bought it but get rid of any clothing that no longer fits, is worn out, outdated, and or looks like its seen its better days. For those wardrobe gems that will come back around…ship it off to storage. We know of a great place {wink}
2) Replace any wire hangers from the cleaners with wooden, plastic, and or satin padded ones.
3) Check for anything winter coats/clothes that needs to visit the dry cleaner and prepare them for departure.
4) If you haven’t worn it in 2 years and it is still in good shape, donate it! We Support HousingWorks.org
5) Do not hang knits by their shoulders on hanger (they will stretch out ) Either fold them over on the hanger, or on a shelf or in a drawer.
6) Hang a three-tiered wire kitchen basket from the ceiling of a closet for extra storage in empty corners. It’s a great spot for socks.
7) Keep a lint brush, small iron, and sewing kit nearby incase of a fashion emergency, and always remind yourself to protect your sweaters. Purchase cedar chip, bars, etc, and keep in mind that dry cleaning will also protect your garments.
8) Attach delicate silver nails to a closet wall and drape necklaces from them―pretty and practical.
9) Now that you can actually see what’s in your closet, make a list of what you need.
10) Reward time- Go shopping!
Tackle one closet at a time and really see the results as you go along. To find out how you can benefit from self storage to help you get de-cluttered in time for Spring, visit https://storagebymail.com/SignUp.aspx page to get started.
1 year ago
Iconoculture Spots StorageByMail
StorageByMail takes a load off consumers
by Cree McCree
WHAT’S HAPPENING
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StorageByMail takes the “self” out of self-storage. Instead of schlepping their earthly possessions to a concrete cubicle, consumers outsource the heavy lifting to the USPS and ship their boxes to a central warehouse shared by Bloomingdales and Tommy Hilfiger.
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After registering online, customers print out prepaid shipping labels (or send them to the nearest fax via mobile phone) and schedule a USPS pickup. When they want their boxes back, they just request return delivery; the company ships them out the next business day.
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While consumers rarely fill conventional storage units, there’s no wasted space with StorageByMail. For $5 per cubic foot, you can store as much or as little as you please, including a single box.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO BUSINESS
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Whether they’re between-semester students, downsizing urban dwellers or families on the move, today’s highly mobile consumers don’t want to be tied down by possessions. Shipping excess baggage to a secure warehouse lets them travel light while saving time and money.
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Conventional storage lockers rent by the month. StorageByMail lets consumers set their own schedules and retrieve their boxes whenever they like without paying for unused days.
RESOURCES
StorageByMail Featured on Mashable
Startup Bets on New Idea in Personal Storage
Quick Pitch: StorageByMail enables customers to ship boxes to storage using prepaid shipping labels and online inventory management.
Genius Idea: Inspired by a tiny Manhattan apartment and overpriced storage space, Daniel Hughes set about building a personal storage hobby project to meet his own needs in 2005. His idea was to turn storage into a send-by-mail system à la Netflix.
The service, StorageByMail, remained very much in prototype form until September 2009, when Hughes decided to focus his energies on his big idea and turn it into a “real” company. Since that time the young company has integrated with the United States Postal Service’s APIs, secured an important warehouse deal with a 600,000 square foot facility in New Jersey and formalized the inventory management system.
Today, should urban dwellers wish to outsource their storage needs to StorageByMail, they can do so almost entirely online and for a cost that is a fraction of what one might pay for self storage elsewhere; plans start at $29.99 per month for five boxes of any size or weight.
Customers manage their stored boxes through a personal inventory page that has the look and feel of an Outlook e-mail inbox. Here they can create a package, give it a name, attach descriptive media like photos to log inventory and print out pre-paid USPS shipping labels. Each label is equipped with a tracking number, barcode and the user-generated package name.
Warehouse employees scan packages, record package weight and height and log packages’ exact shelf location when adding them to StorageByMail’s inventory. The packages remain in storage until customers log in to StorageByMail and request their return. A requested package is shipped on the next business day, at no cost to the customer. Customers also receive e-mail alerts at every stage in the shipping, inventory and return processes.
Minus the packing part, the StorageByMail storage process is almost painless. Packages are insured in case of damage or loss en route or while in storage should customers opt to purchase a protection plan for an additional monthly fee — $7.50 for $2,500 in coverage and $10 for $5,000 in coverage.
Of course, customer acquisition will likely be a pain point for the company until convenience outweighs concern for customers. Self-storage is certainly more manual, but consumer familiarity around the more traditional process will be a motivating factor for choosing it over StorageByMail’s more automated send-by-mail system.
Still, this frequent mover can’t help but see the convenience in a storage option that comes to me, instead of vice versa. We might be a few years out before this idea fully catches on, and traditional storage companies may very well dip their feet in and compete — like ClutterFreeBox from Personal Storage Solutions — but StorageByMail has the makings of a success story.
The startup is primarily self-funded at the moment. Hughes has been financing operations, though recently the startup competed against 111 startups in a three-month accelerator program called MassChallenge and took home $50,000 as one of the winning startups. StorageByMail should also soon close a round of funding, says Hughes.
1 year ago
Read About StorageByMail.com on BostInnovation
Storage by Mail: The Netflix for Storing Your Stuff
It was exactly 11 years ago when Daniel Hughes, CEO of Storage by Mail, conceptualized the idea. He had just finished is undergraduate work and moved to a small apartment on the upper east side of New York City. “My apartment was 400 square feet and they advertised it as a one bedroom…it was the tiniest apartment you could imagine. I actually think 400 square feet was being generous. It didn’t have a single closet, so I had to get creative like hanging my bicycle from the ceiling,” Hughes describes. Knowing that he needed to find some extra space Hughes did what most people do, which is jump online and find the nearest storage facility.
He went over to the nearest facility and had a series of miserable experiences: “The first thing that I experienced when I walked in there and I had seen this ad for a $29 personal closet, and I thought this would be perfect for me! I asked about that one, and they explained to me that they had just rented the last one, so perhaps I would like to have the next size up? I felt like no matter what size I asked for they would have done that to me. Also, even though the facility distance wise wasn’t that far from me, because I didn’t own a car it was going to be really problematic moving in and out of the facility,” said Hughes. More»>
1 year ago
StorageByMail is one of 16 winners of the inaugural MassChallenge competition! The competition launched on April 14 and attracted 446 applications from 26 countries and 24 U.S. states. This 3-month accelerator program providing intensive mentoring and access to free resources including office space, legal support and targeted introductions to customers and funding sources.
At the culmination of the program, 26 finalists pitched their company and business plans to a panel of notable judges who then critiqued each company’s pitch and scored on impact, scalability, competitive positioning, and execution.
The final results were announced at a ceremony attended by more than 600 people. Keynote speeches were given by Steve Case, the founder of AOL, Tom Menino, the Mayor of Boston, and Greg Bialecki, the Secretary of Housing and Economic Development for the State of Massachusetts.
The competition was funded by the State of Massachusetts and numerous corporate sponsors.
Way to go StorageByMail team! (as we pat ourselves on the back)
Read more at: http://xconomy.com/?p=108448
1 year ago
Catch StorageByMail.com at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. 9/29 @ 5:30 PM.
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected to demo StorageByMail.com at the first-annual Startup Showcase, an event featuring some of the hottest new companies in the startup ecosystem. We’ll need your vote to join Tim O’Reilly and Fred Wilson for an on-stage conversation. So please, vote early and vote often!
Web 2.0 Startup Showcase, Wednesday 9/29 @ 5:30 PM
1 year ago
Breaking News: StorageByMail Advances to MassChallenge Finals
We’re thrilled and honored to qualify for the finals. The upcoming three-month incubator phase should be a wild ride. We’ll report here on our progress.
Congrats to all of the other finalists!
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