Interactive Solutions, Inc.

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Recent News Interactive Solutions, Incorporated Makes Prestigious 2009 Incorporated 500/5,000 List for Fourth Time Since ISI joins the Kauffman Foundation’s Build a Stronger America: The Entrepreneur’s Movement at the Incorporated 500 Conference. Click here to see more. Jay Myers, along with other ISI staff, participated in the Scott Messmore Charity Golf Tournament benefiting Jr. Achievement. (October 2009) Interactive Solutions, Incorporated named one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. (August 2009) ISI featured in ProAv Magazine (August 2009) Local Book Now Sold By Major Retailers (October 2007) Entrepreneur of the Week: Up Close and Personal (March 2007) Business people visit Interactive Solutions' open house (June 2006) ISI to Host Free Open House to Demonstrate the Latest in Cutting Edge Video Technology (June 2006) Rebounding from Employee Theft (June 2006) New Videoconferencing Technologies Have Companies Looking to Spend on Upgrades (April 2006) Memphis-based ISI Celebrates Tenth Incorporation Anniversary (March 2006) More About ISI: Accolades Archives Interactive Solutions, Incorporated Makes Prestigious 2009 Incorporated 500/5,000 List for Fourth Time Since Memphis, Tenn.(August, 2009) - Incorporated Magazine announced that Interactive Solutions, Incorporated (ISI) has been acknowledged with a second Incorporated 5,000 ranking among the fastest-growing private companies in the country. ISI has previously been named to the Incorporated 500 list in years 2001 & 2003 as well as the Incorporated 5000 list in 2007. ISI is a leader in providing cutting edge audio/visual and video conferencing solutions to corporate, healthcare, government, & education markets. As a result, ISI’s consistent growth over the last several years has landed them a spot on this prestigious list out of thousands of qualifying businesses. Here is a link to ISI’s page on Incorporated’s website: http://inc.com/inc5000/2009/company-profile.html?id=200942660 “We’ve built a solid organization based on superior customer service as well as focusing on the company’s core values of honesty, integrity and ethics. In this manner, ISI has not only been able to dramatically grow the business, but also remain true to its guiding principles,” noted Jay B. Myers, Founder/CEO. “We are honored to be recognized by such a well-respected media outlet as Incorporated for the fourth time in 8 years” The Incorporated 5,000 recognizes the fastest growing entrepreneurial companies who could be tomorrow’s next Google, IBM or AT&T. “The Incorporated 5,000 gives an unrivaled portrait of young, underreported companies across all industries doing fascinating things with cutting-edge business models, as well as older companies that are still showing impressive growth,” noted Jim Melloan of Incorporated magazine. Complete information on this year’s Incorporated 5,000 can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000 . About Interactive Solutions, Incorporated Interactive Solutions, Incorporated sells and supports audio/visual and video conferencing systems to government agencies, schools, hospitals, and corporations across the United States. About Incorporatedcom Incorporatedcom, the Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs delivers advice, tools, breaking news, and rich multi-media to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. Information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people can be found at www.inc.com . Back to Top Entrepreneur of the Week: Up Close and Personal Yahoo! Finance As told to Darren Dahl It wasn't long ago that pursuing faraway customers meant hopping on a plane. Not anymore. Today, companies can eliminate thousands of miles of travel by using video-conferencing technology to talk face-to-face. And it's not just businesses that are benefiting: hospitals and schools now use the technology to help treat remote patients or give rural kids the benefit of a big-city education. While the technology may seem new to most folks, Jay Myers of Interactive Solutions in Memphis, Tenn., has been installing systems for more than 11 years, and has won a slew of awards doing so. "After working for about 10 years for companies like Kodak and Hewlett-Packard as a salesman, I decided that I wanted to challenge myself with something new. While I had done well selling high-tech products, I had really tired of working for big corporations. I just wasn't suited for the corporate world. I always knew I wanted to run something of my own or at least have the potential to make a lot of money. So I jumped at a chance to work for a telecom company in Memphis. "I started as a data-products manager in charge of marketing those automated voice systems, the kind that give you your account balance when you call up your bank at night. But one day my boss dropped this brochure and a VHS tape on my desk and told me to check it out -- something called Video Telecom. It looked interesting, and after I took the tape home and watched it, I fell in love. "Within a year of watching that tape, I landed the University of Tennessee and the family-practice and distance-learning centers at the University of Memphis as clients. Over the next five years, in fact, I landed contracts with just about every college and university in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, which helped my division grow to about $5 million a year in sales. Then I hit bottom: my boss took me out to lunch on my birthday in 1995 and fired me: they wanted out of the video-conferencing business. We'd been having some disputes, but I never expected that. I was devastated. "But, from the very beginning of my career, I knew I'd always wanted to run a company of my own. I also knew that there was huge potential for the technology. So I cobbled together a quick business plan and raised some money from a local investment group to get Interactive Solutions off the ground. The technology we sold in the beginning is nothing compared to the things we can offer now, like LCD screens, 50-inch plasmas, and streaming video over the Internet. "I've had some serious bumps in the road along the way, but the business, like the technology, has continued to grow and grow, especially in the southeastern U.S. Our clients now include Nike, FedEx, and even the New York Yankees. In fact, I just got back from attending a Yankee fantasy camp in Tampa, Fla., which, like starting my own business, fulfilled another lifelong dream." Back to Top

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