Jay Myers

Include your customers in funding growth plans. Jay Myers joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges of funding small business growth and how to effectively include customers in the process.

Success for small business also comes with challenges. Jay Myers joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the challenges his fast-growing small business has had this year, and how to avoid succeeding yourself out of business.

What do fast growth companies do to grow during a slow economy? Jay Myers joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how his company has survived and grown by hiring the right people and focusing on their niche.

Starting a business is easy. Growing a successful business: not so much. The statistics are grim: 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 did: 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.

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