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SL Sales Tracker Business Partners
Showing others your data in a read only fashion
Sunday, June 03, 2007
By: Zimbit Vidor
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Having a great business does not happen overnight. It takes time and effort. Sometimes it takes more then time and effort though. Sometimes it takes cold hard startup cash for startup expenses.
Finding this cash can be a job in itself. You may already have funding sources you use or have used for past projects. You may have a group of friends that get together and pool financial resources to those projects that are most promising. You also might get funding from local SL venture capitalists. That is where it gets tricky.
If you are running a booming business but want to grow thirty percent in the next month you are going to need to spend some money advertising and possibly getting some professional marketing help.
If you ever talked with venture capitalists, you will know they are interested in only one thing and that is not your dream, it is the return on their investment. They want to be sure that the money they give you today will grow into a nice little chunk of change in the future. So how do you convince them investing in your business is the smart thing to do?
Well if you are running your business with SL Sales Tracker, you can easily point to your online material so they can first hand see how much you are bringing in.
How you might ask, short of giving them my password, might I show them my sales?
The friend tool
Using the friend’s tool within SLST is easy! Do not let the name fool you. The friend’s tool is a serious business tool that can help you get the cash you need for your next major expansion.
To access this tool and allow others to see your data you need to do a couple of things. First and foremost you need to get those persons you wish to have viewing access to your data to sign up with SLST. For security reasons persons seeing your data must have an account with SLST with their own password. After they sign up follow these easy steps to grant them viewing access to your data.
1) Log into SLST.
2) Click the View menu near the top of the page after you logged in.
3) Select “My Account” from the drop down list.
4) Your account information will be displayed. Select [Manage] by Users that can see my data.
5) When the screen comes up, type in the name of the person (SL name) you wish to see your data.
6) Click the add button. If the person you are granting view access to has signed up with SLST, they will be added to the list.
NOTE: using this same screen you can remove persons that can currently see your data.
That is it! You have granted the named person VIEW access to your data. Here is how they view it.
1) Have them log into their SLST account via the web site.
2) Tell them to click the view menu and then to click Friends Sales.
3) They are presented with a list of all persons that have granted them view access.
4) They select your name to view your data.
That is it! Now they can use the site normally but instead of seeing their data (if any) they will see your data. They can only view this data and not change it.
They will see that your sales have been growing and that people are interested in your products. After they review your hard data, they will be able to see that investing capital into your business is a good move.
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