We are living in a decade of Smartphones, tablets, and of course the Cloud. All of these make working from any location – that is, outside of an actual office – easy. Although there are some businesses that flourish by having all of their employees in one location and working under one roof, many succeed by having their team working remotely or individually from several different locations.
For any business with remote workers, keeping track of their team and having an efficient means of communication is vital for company growth and success. A secure intranet system in the Cloud, with some form of Cloud-based applications, are essential connectivity tools for a small business to compete in today’s market. One small business that made the move to the Cloud in order to keep their team connected was Top Secret Nutrition.
The Right Tools for a Team on a Top Secret Mission
Based out of Florida, Top Secret Nutrition (“TSN”) is one of the fastest growing sports nutrition companies in the U.S. TSN provides many of the most innovative nutritional supplements in its industry to support active and healthy lifestyles. TSN’s rapid growth has team members working from remote locations, and on the move – promoting products, collaborating with strategic partners, and meeting with distributors and retailers. With this type of dynamic business model, TSN needed an IT solution that was easily accessible from any location and one that would allow team members to share information rapidly and consistently. After much research, it was decided this need required a move to the Cloud platform.
At that time TSN co-founder and president, David Zinn, began his search for a solution that would allow his business to grow while working remotely. At TSN, providing customers with the best supplements, education, product information, and experience is of the core of the business, and critical for success. This means that TSN employees need to be informed, connected, and well prepared. Through extensive online research, Zinn found StreetSmart, InfoStreet’s suite of Cloud apps.
For TSN, the StreetSmart suite of Cloud apps served as a secure intranet system that included powerful task assignment and CRM apps that were just what the company needed to make information and task sharing easy. Through StreetSmart’s CRM, Zinn and his team were able to quickly update new client information, share it, and keep it all stored in one safe location. As Zinn tells us, “With our team members working on several different clients in several different locations, we needed to make sure that everyone was still connected and informed, StreetSmart’s CRM took care of all that.” In addition, all of StreetSmart’s Cloud apps integrate with each other which made delegating tasks, scheduling meetings, and sharing information effortless.
The Results of a Cloud-Based-Intranet
The StreetSmart suite of Cloud apps provides the tools that allow them to focus on key customer relationships to become one of the leading nutritional supplement brands in the U.S. Their supplements can be found online and in specialty stores at various national and regional retailers, such as Bodybuilding.com, Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, and many other local specialty nutritional supplement stores throughout the U.S. Zinn adds, “Staying efficient, up to date, and mobile has also allowed TSN to grow rapidly internationally, and yet we still achieve our goals and produce measurable results on a daily basis. “Having InfoStreet as our Cloud provider, has transformed our business by providing the perfect platform for us to exceed customer expectations.”
When your team needs to stay mobile and efficient what solution will you look to?
