About Success Connections

Melanie Strick is the founder of Success Connections and an entrepreneur’s success coach. Success Connections helps entrepreneurs and business owners discover simple strategies to create more money, prestige and freedom in their business.

Helping Entrepreneurs Get it Right

Each year, Melanie Benson Strick tells thousands of entrepreneurs who want to build consistent six- and seven-figure top-lines to “get out of overwhelm.” And, as the driving force behind Southern California-based Success Connections, Strick offers a wide range of consulting products and services – from self-study CD sets to virtual mastermind programs to posh retreats – designed to help business owners all over the world build full-bodied virtual organizations that generate multiple revenue streams year after year. “We try to take Lone Ranger entrepreneurs and help them become well-rounded CEOs rather than overpaid project managers,” says Strick. “To do that, we often have to break through some of the clutter they’ve created over time.”

Scaling Clients with Smartsheet

Strick and her virtual team of nine believe that the collaborative productivity gains generated by Smartsheet’s software make it an indispensable tool for small businesses looking to become bigger in a hurry. “Smartsheet technology can help modest organizations scale by 10X to 20X,” explains Strick, “because it allows entrepreneurs the chance to delegate a slew of tasks to a number of people and then track their progress and performance by simply going online to an easy-to-use real-time template. You can let go a bit because at any given moment you get a clear picture of what has been accomplished, who’s doing the accomplishing and what needs to be accomplished.”

Running a Virtual Business with Smartsheet

Success Connections uses Smartsheet itself to track tasks and run a more efficient consulting firm; but it also teaches its clients how to deploy the task management software to deliver productive and high-velocity growth for themselves. “We show entrepreneurs how to successfully expand by building virtual teams,” says Strick. “We also feel it’s important to show them how to run those teams and get the most out of the extra human capital. That’s where Smartsheet’s solution comes in. The technology helps the growth strategy work.”

In practical terms, Success Connections actually trains a number of its entrepreneurial clients online using Smartsheet check-lists and templates. “Once they practice and get pretty comfortable with the technology,” explains Strick, “they realize they’re not giving up control. Instead, they’re gaining a powerful productivity and growth tool that provides them with the ability to manage a far larger organization.”

Success Connections has converted legions of small-business owners to Smartsheet as part of a robust affiliate program that is helping growth-oriented entrepreneurs truly understand the promise and potential of this innovative software solution.

“Our clients totally get it,” says Strick. “With Smartsheet, the entrepreneur – and everyone else in the rapidly growing organization – is receiving the right information at the right time. It’s a very productive business that’s multiplying in size without quality or efficiency loss. That’s why I trust Smartsheet and consistently recommend it.”