If you have an online business, then you probably work from your home. This is one of the great things about having an online business because it makes it a convenient and affordable type of work. As your online business grows, you might find it more difficult to keep running it out of your home. Here are some of the reasons why it may become increasingly harder to keep running the business from your home and reasons why a self-storage unit can help. 

You now have an excessive amount of shipping supplies

Once your business grows and you start having a lot more shipments going out to your customers regularly, you'll want to have your shipping boxes and other supplies on hand. However, you may not have enough space in the house to keep everything you need stored, although it is cheaper to purchase in bulk. When you have a self-storage unit, you can keep your surplus of shipping supplies in the unit and bring home what you need for the week. This way, you'll only have to go to the storage unit for those supplies once a week, but it will help you to limit the number of items taking up space in your home. 

You have a lot more merchandise on hand

Just as how you will need to have more shipping supplies, you'll also need to have more merchandise to ship out. The merchandise may also be too much to continue keeping in the house. You can set up a self-storage unit with shelving that helps you to keep everything well-organized. You can print out your orders and go to the storage unit to pull all the merchandise you need to send out as well. In fact, you may find it easier to have an area where you can just pack and prepare everything to ship in the unit. 

You have a lot of equipment and tools

Depending on what you are selling online, you might have a lot of equipment and tools that you often need in order to create items that people purchase from you. Having a storage unit for your business will also help you to have a proper place to store all of your equipment and tools until you need them. This can also prevent you from storing them improperly when you run out of room in the house which can cause them to end up being damaged, such as if you would otherwise keep them in the yard.

For more information, contact a self-storage unit provider.