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Keep Swinging: An Entrepreneur's Story of Overcoming Adversity & Achieving Small Business Success
Starting a business is easy. Growing a successful not so much. The statistics are less than 20% of the businesses started each year survive their 5th anniversary. Jay Myers, founder of Interactive Solutions, Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee is one such survivor. Jay has built a company that, by tapping into the demand for high-tech video conferencing and communication equipment, continues to grow even beyond the 10 year anniversary. Finding the way, however, wasn't easy. Facing cash flow problems, a partnership divorce and even an embezzling employee, there were many days that Jay thought he was going to end up just another statistic. Actually, he Interactive Solutions, Inc. is part of an elite club that has made the INC 500- INC magazine's list of America's fastest growing private companies-twice Jay shares his lessons on how he did it in ""Keep Swinging"" a story of overcoming adversity and achieving small business success.
157 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2007
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About the author
Jay Myers
2 booksJay B. Myers is the Founder/CEO of Interactive Solutions, Inc. (ISI), a Memphis based firm that specializes in videoconferencing, distance learning, telemedicine and audio-visual sales and support. His first book, Keep Swinging- An Entrepreneurs Story of Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Small Business Success,will be published in October 2007, and is available through Morgan James Publishing of New York (www.morganjamespublishing.com).
Myers started ISI in 1996 and in the past 11 years has built it into a $14 million company with 40 employees and offices in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Birmingham, Ala. and Jackson, Miss.
Named to Inc. magazines INC 500 list in 2001 and 2003 as one of fastest growing private companies in the United States, ISI has received numerous corporate awards and recognition in the past several years. Most recently, ISI earned placement on Business Tennessees Fast 50 lists of the states fastest growing private companies in both 2005 and 2006, as well as the GBS Eagles (Emory University) list of the fastest growing private firms in the Southeast United States.
ISI was also named the 2004 Oak Ridge National Labs Small Business of the Year, and was the recipient of the 2003 Kemmons Wilson (founder
of Holiday Inn) Emerging Business Award. ISI was also awarded the Memphis Business Journal Small Business of the Year in 2001, and was a finalist
in 2000.
Prior to starting ISI, Myers earned numerous sales awards while with international corporations Eastman Kodak and Hewlett Packard.
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Myers started ISI in 1996 and in the past 11 years has built it into a $14 million company with 40 employees and offices in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Birmingham, Ala. and Jackson, Miss.
Named to Inc. magazines INC 500 list in 2001 and 2003 as one of fastest growing private companies in the United States, ISI has received numerous corporate awards and recognition in the past several years. Most recently, ISI earned placement on Business Tennessees Fast 50 lists of the states fastest growing private companies in both 2005 and 2006, as well as the GBS Eagles (Emory University) list of the fastest growing private firms in the Southeast United States.
ISI was also named the 2004 Oak Ridge National Labs Small Business of the Year, and was the recipient of the 2003 Kemmons Wilson (founder
of Holiday Inn) Emerging Business Award. ISI was also awarded the Memphis Business Journal Small Business of the Year in 2001, and was a finalist
in 2000.
Prior to starting ISI, Myers earned numerous sales awards while with international corporations Eastman Kodak and Hewlett Packard.
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