At Big Storage I was initially taken on to grow and increase the business within the branch, this was done via a large series of methods such as networking, cold calling, advertising in the local media, utilising referral marketing, strategic alliances and many more. It gave me great scope to use my innovative and entrepreneurial nature, meaning that I was able to identify new market segments and attack them as I saw fit to gain their business.

Alongside this I was also involved heavily with the running of the two branches, quickly moving up to being the most senior member of my two branches and overseeing the running of them, from chasing debtors and stock ordering, to managing displays and audits. I was also involved with training several new branch managers to get them up to speed as fast as possible to join new branches with this quickly expanding company.

Working on this scheme gave me a great introduction into a larger business and its workings. The role provided experience in direct selling, ancillary sales, as well as marketing, cold calling, and account maintenance, all with a view to growing business.
As well as the sales side I also got a large amount of experience in customer satisfaction, chasing debtors and payments, invoicing, and a lot of operations management.