Retail and ecommerce
How Extra Space Storage became a top player in the self-storage industry.
These combined solutions help keep us focused on perfecting customer experiences that matter most and ensures that we’re keeping our customers at the center of business decisions.
Brooke Stencil
VP Digital Marketing, Extra Space Storage, Brooke Stencil
Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, owns and operates more than 2,000 self-storage properties in 41 states. Its properties rent 1.4 million storage units collectively representing more than 152.6 million square feet of rentable space. It offers customers a wide selection of affordable, conveniently located, safe and secure storage solutions across the United States. Unit types include personal storage, boat storage, RV storage, and business storage.
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Contact SalesWith over 2,000 locations across the United States, Extra Space Storage is familiar to a lot of people. In the past 5 years, the company has added over $4.6B in acquisitions to its portfolio. They pride themselves on providing helpful staff and secure, clean, and convenient storage spaces with options for storing things outside, such as boats and RVs, or inside, including climate-controlled units. But they wanted to redefine the storage industry—an ambitious goal.
With relatively few customer touchpoints compared to most retail businesses, Extra Space Storage knows how important it is to add value in every interaction—especially in today’s growing number of digital interactions. From finding the nearest location, to selecting the right storage unit size, to completing rental agreements, Extra Space Storage believes in the relentless pursuit of excellence. But they needed a better way to go about improving every detail of their digital experiences while balancing customer needs with company goals. What was their solution?
When it comes to digital experiences, Extra Space Storage looks at each one from two perspectives—pre and post production. In pre-production, the UX and Design teams rely heavily on fast feedback from two sources:
In post-production, digital experience teams continue testing what they built by gathering fast feedback using these same methods to monitor and further optimize performance. This creates a constant flow of feedback and holistic insights that inform decision making across the company, from small UX decisions that make a specific page more helpful to large strategic ones that impact go-to-market strategy.
This ‘better together’ approach, where two solutions empower Extra Space Storage to identify pain points and opportunities at each step in a customer’s digital journey, also ensures that their insights are highly actionable and intuitive because they explain the why behind the what. This means that more decisions are made with greater confidence and fewer errors.
These solutions allow Extra Space Storage to iterate over and over with speed and scale, until each digital experience is optimized. For example, when the company redesigned their site architecture, the inferred feedback from click paths and engagement data validated their hypotheses around certain opportunities to improve aspects of the design, from the clarity and helpfulness of the copy, to the location of the buttons, to the effectiveness of the SEO strategy. Empowered with human insight, they tested and iterated new designs to optimize each digital experience to achieve a maximum level of effectiveness, ease, and delight.
Faster innovation? Friction points identified 100% faster.
Risk reduction? Higher confidence in decision making. # UX issues eliminated (x% fewer errors)
SEO impact?
Cost savings?
Revenue growth?
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