13 Aug 2019
Now that you’ve gotten the locks cut and lien letters sent, it’s time to take the photos for your online auction. As opposed to live auctions, in an online storage auction the pictures you take of your units are of the utmost importance to your auction’s success.
Since online auctions are conducted over the internet, potential bidders will not have the opportunity to go to your self storage facility and see the storage unit themselves. While this may save you the hassle and stress of a live auction, it’s up to you to provide the best photos for your potential bidders.
StorageAuctions.com and RadiusPlus.com teamed up to give you tips for your online storage auction images, and general photography tips (respectively) to ensure you produce the most engagement with every-one of your online storage auction postings.
When gathering photos for your online storage auction, there are a few tips and tricks to optimize the amount of bidders viewing and bidding on your self storage facility’s units. We suggest for each unit you are putting up for auction:
So you’ve gotten killer photos, and you’re ready to upload your online storage auction to StorageAuctions.com. There are still some final details you could tweak to make sure your storage facility’s auction pulls in the optimal results.
The rotation of your photos also can affect the potential of your storage facility’s auction. Be sure all your pictures are rotated correctly, otherwise you could be making your units a lot harder to view. This could even lead to bidders possibly missing out on some of the hidden treasures in your lockers up for auction.
With these helpful tips, you’ll be a photos master in no time!
