• It’s great, good communications system protecting privacy
• great idea
• Need a place for person who is renting out the space to put their phone number, so someone can contact them!!!
  A phone number can be included in the description if you wish, but the message system allows people to contact you – and ensures your privacy until you are ready to exchange contact details
• What a great idea! Haven’t found what I need yet, but have more clues now.
• Excellent web site and the simplicity of working it.
• Great idea,maybe more car park owners+renters would respond.
• Would be nice if I could get a permalink to a listing to share outside the site.
  Permalinks have now been added to the popup listing details page
• This is an easy site to negotiate and set-out is clear and has the necessary info in a great format
  very easy to use
• pictures of the spaces could be useful as well as a little more info about the space for rent
  We encourage owners to provide detailed space descriptions (the better and clearer the information the easier it usually is to rent out the space).  We plan to allow owners to include photos  in their listings in a future upgrade
• Requires some more properties – Presumably project is in the early growth stages, so understandably not much to see at this stage. …Still good!
  Yup… the number of listings vary from time to time, but we are working hard at raising awareness of the  service
• Fantastic site, I would recommend this site to anyone who has spare space to let, couldn’t get any better!
• A handy site for me to do a quick search of parking stations in the inner city. Very useful.
• Easy to get location and phone number
• Why isn’t this so well known … Perhaps more advertising?
• very good idea!
• Site is great if you live in the cities. I’m in rural Qld and had to type in each place I could think of locally. Maybe a list of areas that have current “”space”" could be added.
  informative
  We do provide a list of  hot listings and also show the latest space listings (by state) and the most  popular suburbs, but listings tend to come and go, so at any one time there may not be any listings in a particular area – this is why we encourage people to create a Space Wanted Listing if they are looking for a particular type of space in a particular area.
• the concept is great . a good extra income in these hard times
• Very Much needed
• great idea only thing now is to see if it works if it does we might offer some space when we get our place

If you have any suggestions, comments, concerns, criticisms or compliments about SpaceOut please make sure that you contact us.

Google now offers a product call Search Stories – which allows anyone to create their own Search Stories video based around keywords and searches of their own choosing.

Here is one that we’ve prepared for SpaceOut, with the aim of highlighting that SpaceOut offers a variety of space rental services (including Storage, Parking, Office and Rural space) in areas  throughout Australia. I hope you like it :

• Great idea, linking smaller storage spaces with people that need it
• Fantastic
• Brilliant! I have been trying to find a way to make some extra cash being a pensioner and have some spare room!
• Thank you so much for starting this excellent site. I am new to it, but it appears grand.
• Great Idea, love it!
• An excellent concept – so simple but so smart.  I will probably rent out some space very soon, but will make myself more familiar with the website & information & discuss it with my partnet first.
• it will be great when it grows a little.  : )
  Great!  I’ve never seen anything like this.
• What an innovative idea!  My mum told me to check out instead of self-storage.  I found one possibility and no doubt it’ll expand rapidly!
• a great idea for that unusual space
• Great concept – I hope lots of people are made aware of this service.
• Wow listing Wilsons car parks was so useful thanks. What a great idea!
  easy
• It would be good if you put that the prices were monthly costs as i didn’t realise this till seeing that Sydney’s average storage price was $800 per month.

If you have any suggestions, comments, concerns, criticisms or compliments about SpaceOut please make sure that you contact us.

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• saw your ad in local paper; interested and looking; I have space to rent if I become interested
• total square meterage instead of width, height, etc would suit me better and multiple listing of suburbs ie more than one location in search
• Great idea for a website
• Great concept, just need to get more people on to it
• Very user friendly.
• GREAT idea!! Exactly what I’ve been looking for  the past few months! Thank you!
• Great idea!! Hope people in Perth will use the site
• multiple listing for one add – rural and parking storage to be a able to be ticked in the same ad
• First time I’ve seen a site like this
• This appears to be a fairly new site as there are not a lot of participants yet but the idea is great. Have you contemplated a category for temporary/intermittent parking places for cars and vans around the state
• It would be good to be able to specify what the space was good for. For example, I have a large second garage that would suit a boat, caravan, car, camper van. That would be good to able to note.
• wot a great idea for those of us who have the space and those of us who need the space
• Very easy to use and navigate
• Great site for advertising space.  I am very happy with the results for advertising office space have successfully leased 2 offices in last 6 months. Great results!!
• Spaceout is fairly new, not many people know about it.
• Great stuff
• Easy to operate and informative thanks
• Beautiful, simple, functional website.
• I have found everything I needed to know for a novice space owner.  Everything is easy to navigate and the information is very useful.  I haven’t needed to look anywhere else for answers to the many questions I had.
• it would help if the prices matched companies not just suburbs
• I live in Eltahm some locations in that region would be more accessible
• Excellent warm helpful service from Miami. Could not be more helpful or pleasant
• like the idea of getting the best deal in the region
• You continue to add improvements to your site. It’s very user-friendly. You try to think of everything both parties would want included. Congratulations. Carol – Perth

If you have any suggestions, comments, concerns, criticisms or compliments about SpaceOut please make sure that you contact us.

If you have a finance related resolution this year, chances are that you can utilise SpaceOut to that end. Whether it’s to save money or add to your monthly income, SpaceOut is a great place to start.

Looking for: Office space, Storage space, a handy parking space, a place to park your boat or caravan or truck, a paddock or shed, then SpaceOut is the place where you can find the best deals that are not found anywhere else! Space Owners are regular people who offer their space for very reasonable rates, and you’re likely to find something that suits in the suburb you want it.

Of course if you own any of the above, clean it up and list it now – get in early and see how you can leverage previously unutilised space into cash income that is literally money out of thin air! We receive great feedback every day from people putting all kinds of space to great use, and love hearing from our members. Go ahead, add SpaceOut to your New Year Resolutions and tell your friends so they can benefit too.

We here at SpaceOut wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2010, and a big thank you to all our members who helped to make us what we are today.

• Just discovered your website – what a great idea.
• Very bright, creative and out of the box !! Excellent !! Keep it up !!
• good minimalist clear effective info – space, location etc – easy to use.
• Very nice
• I heard about this on TV and then in the Sunday Mail.  It is a great idea.  Do many people know about this web site though?  How can we find someone eg who is going overseas (so they wont be continually accessing their goods – and invading our privacy?)  That’s something that should be in FAQs.  If it is I didn’t find it.
• i love the design also the helpful hints
• hey guys – brilliant idea.  Money for jam for renters and I hope this site takes off and makes you guys a truck load…  I have just placed an ad and it will be interesting to see how this pans out.  all the best  John
• Good site. Easy to browse
• Would prefer it if links opened new tabs, and didn’t change the current window. Hate having to go back or lose the page I was on. Prefer to delete extra tabs as needed. Otherwise it’s good so far.
• This site provided me with the information I was searching for.
• Map was quite comprehensive.

If you have any suggestions, comments, concerns, criticisms or compliments about SpaceOut please make sure that you contact us.

What I mean here is that there is most likely a self storage facility or another private space in your area, and potential SpaceRenters will of course do their due-diligence and find the most reasonable option to store.

Nobody wants to pay more than they need to to store their stuff just like you wouldn’t in that position, so take a little time to have a good look at the options that SpaceSeekers have in your area.  You may have a look at our national storage price survey showing prices for self storage units in most of the country.  This should give you an indication of the ‘professional rate’, and we typically recommend pricing at 50-70% of that rate.  Also, take a look at the SpaceOut search map for other private spaces in your area – this is what SpaceSeekers do – to see what price other SpaceOwners are offering their space for.

Taking some extra time to set yourself up for a successful space rental is a wise move, and will get your space rented sooner.  Think of all the work you won’t have to do once your space has been rented.  Not bad for the potential return we recon! So today’s message is Stay competitive and rent sooner.

If you’ve not yet heard of Pitch Club – it is an organisation that runs events Australia wide – where Entrepreneurs, Startup Businesses and Ventures (many looking for investment) have an opportunity to “pitch” their business idea.

At the event  9 ventures (and 1 ‘Lucky pitch’ drawn on the night) get an opportunity to step into a miniature boxing ring where they have 90 seconds to ‘pitch’ the concept of their business to a crowd of investors, business angels, VCs and other entrepreneur enthusiasts. Then 3 or 4 finalists (selected through group voting) have 5 more minutes with the audience before the winner is chosen by all.

This was Brisbane’s second Pitch Club event (the first was held in March this year) and the evening was a great success.  I had the opportunity to present the “SpaceOut concept” to a focused group of approximately 100 of South East Queensland’s entrepreneurs, investors and business advisers, and had a chance to chat and network with many of them as well.

Whilst 90 seconds is very little time to get the concept across, – I found it to be a very worthwhile exercise having to reduce the 5 minutes of things that I simply” had” to say down to a mere minute and a half.

I was not completely happy with my pitch on the night – fumbled and bumbled a little, and didn’t quite get to say everything that I wanted to, but I did manage to get the overall concept across, and had a lot of very interesting discussions with a wide range of people later in the evening.

My pitch can’t have been all bad, because I was  awarded a “prize”  to attend a business development seminar to be run by QUT Creative Enterprises, and provided with an opportunity for a couple of hours face to face consulting.  As a direct result of this pitch -and subsequent networking, I’ve also managed to schedule a few other meetings over the next few weeks and feel so much more informed about some of the great opportunities for developing innovation and small business in Qld.

All in all a great night, resulting in lots of fabulous opportunities and outcomes for the future development ands growth of SpaceOut.

SmartCompany Web Awards 2009

The SmartCompany Web Awards were designed to show just how good small business websites could really be.  There were more than 200 entries, from small and large businesses – Australia wide.

We were very pleased to learn that despite very heavy competition – against much larger businesses and websites that have been established for considerably longer – SpaceOut made it into the finals and was considered to be one of the top 3 Best Small Business Websites.

SpaceOut makes it to the finals

We are pretty proud with what we have achieved already (in such a short time)  with SpaceOut – and whilst we knew that we had a great idea, a cool website,  and offered a fabulous service, it is still very satisfying to get this type of recognition.This is a great pat on the back for us and inspires us to forge ahead with our plans, and make the site and  service that we offer even better.

We are also excited to be able to prove that it really is possible for relatively small startup business to compete with big businesses that have considerably larger budgets. When it comes to great websites, it’s not necessarily how much money you spend but how you spend it.

I mean, just think about it… you as the receiver just suddenly have cash flowing in that you didn’t otherwise have – without having to do anything for it.  And I don’t even think the amount is all that important, just the fact that each month or week, you have kind of free money that you wouldn’t otherwise have.

It might stop you going further into debt if that’s where you’re headed, or it might mean you can afford a new monthly luxury that you didn’t have the capacity for before hand.

As fantastical as this may sound, these days you can give this gift, or at least a very good chance of it.  Tell your friends and family about SpaceOut.com.au.  It is total no-brainer income.  How happy will one of your friends be if they start making a few hundred a month just because you told them how to use that spare space.  Go on, it’s too easy.