Hitting the Curveballs - by Jay Myers (Paperback)

About the Book

In Hitting the Curveballs, small business owner Jay Myers coaches entrepreneurs to use crises to grow their business by inspiring them to embrace new strategies, including creative employee recruiting methods, niche marketing, using your book as a hook, and much more. Myers tells the story of how he led his own company to more than double its sales to $25 million from 2007 to 2011, when they lost 80% of their sales team and faced the worst economy in living memory. Buy this book if you want the encouraging voice of an experienced hitter behind you next time you step up to the plate.

Book Synopsis

In Hitting the Curveballs, small business owner Jay Myers coaches entrepreneurs to use crises to grow their business by inspiring them to embrace new strategies, including creative employee recruiting methods, niche marketing, using your book as a hook, and much more. Myers tells the story of how he led his own company to more than double its sales to $25 million from 2007 to 2011, when they lost 80% of their sales team and faced the worst economy in living memory. Buy this book if you want the encouraging voice of an experienced hitter behind you next time you step up to the plate.

Review Quotes

"The basic fundamentals that carry one to success against all odds in business are also the fundamentals that carry one to success in family, faith, and all other aspects of life. Jay Myers's journey illustrates this fact, and his candid, honest account of his personal path in Hitting the Curveballs is an illuminating look into how courage, character, and perseverance steadied him through the most trying times. What makes Hitting the Curveballs special isn't that it's so dissimilar from countless others; rather it is the heartfelt candor with which Jay allows us into his personal path, thoughts, and feelings that compels and inspires others to maintain their own path that makes this a great read." ---Bill Courtney, Star of the 2012 Academy Award-winning documentary Undefeated

"Bouncing back from adversity is a real test of character and courage. Clearly Jay Myers has overcome many business and personal challenges and yet maintains such a positive outlook. That is so inspiring for others who face similar challenges. I appreciate his honesty and willingness to share this with others. I highly recommend Hitting the Curveballs for every small business owner. Go Yankees!" ---Chuck Wilson, Executive Director, NSCA

"During the four-year period (2007-11) that included the great recession, ISI grew from $11 million to $25 million. Jay shares with us the secrets he and his team used to realize this phenomenal growth. In Hitting the Curveballs, Jay shares with us proven and tested practical ideas for growing your business in today's challenging economic environment." ---Madan Birla, Author of FedEx Delivers

"There is a word in Finnish that is used with pride: SISU. With SISU Finns have managed to build their reputation, be it in music (Jean Sibelius), architecture (Elial Saarinen), sports (Teemu Selanne), or world politics (President Ahtisaari). Jay Myers tells his own SISU story in Hitting the Curveballs: personal, honest, and full of energy." ---Matti Copeland, Chief Curiosity Officer, Founder of www.mcreads.com

"Seeing an entrepreneur enjoying success is like observing an Olympic athlete on the podium with a gold medal. In that moment of admiration, what you don't see is the years of work, great risk endured, adversity overcome, and doubts slayed. In his new book Hitting the Curveballs, Jay Myers pulls back the curtain to reveal components of the "all in" commitment required for entrepreneurial greatness. This is a gift-take it. Thanks, Jay." ---Jim Blasingame, Small business expert, author, and syndicated columnist, Host of The Small Business Advocate show

"Jay Myers embraces and inspires today's leaders to not just accept trouble as it comes, but to grow through trouble." ---Dr. Phil Bryant, Assistant Professor of Management . Columbus State University

About the Author

Jay Myers is the Founder/CEO of Interactive Solutions, Inc. (ISI), a Memphis-based firm that specializes in videoconferencing, telemedicine, distance learning, and audiovisual systems sales and support. Interactive Solutions has been named to Inc. magazine's list of fastest-growing companies in the United States seven times in the past eleven years. Myers' first book, " Keep Swinging: An Entrepreneur's Story of Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Small Business Success" (Morgan James, 2007), won the 2010 Ethan Award for success as an entrepreneurial author.