The Thrive Podcast

I've been a product manager for CallRail for the last four years, give or take. I've been with the company a little longer than about four and a half years. Really, as a product manager, my main goal is to build, build products that are extremely useful to our customers and help them become more successful. So from the start, CallRail as a company has been all about how can we allow medical practices small to medium businesses, how can we allow them the ability to gain insight into how well their marketing is performing and to allow them to gain that insight, view the data, and to be able to make action or have actionable insight into those things and to take action, take action on those either by adjusting maybe a marketing campaign or using a different search keyword if they wanted to.

Greg Hatcher started The Hatcher Agency in Little Rock, Arkansas with an assistant and 500 square feet of office space in 1990. After only one year, Greg had seven employees and was producing more than any agent in Arkansas.

The Hatcher Agency was named Arkansas’s Small Business of the Year in 1993 and has led the state in health insurance every year since its founding in 1990. Arkansas Business named it the Most Philanthropic Company in 2006 and it has been chosen as the Best Insurance Agency every year.

Eric Buckner is CEO and Founder of 10 Fitness which is a chain of high value, low cost health and fitness centers headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the time of publishing, 10 Fitness is 11 years old and over 250 employees. Eric is still growing and looking forward to more growth!

Bryan Hosto’s early start as an entrepreneur, Advice on knowing your market,

Tips on sharing your story and having open communication, The importance of quality service, How Bryan’s firm started getting larger clients, Tips on using your network and connections, And SO much more!

Ben Clark is CEO of B-Unlimited where you can get greek apparel and custom collegiate t-shirts, apparel, & accessories at reasonable price. Ben is in Fayetteville, Arkansas and expects to hit $10 million in sales!

Alan was a tremendous guest. I've met a handful of successful business owners that haven't been able to inspire people. Alan is NOT one of them. After sitting with him for less than an hour, I was ready to hang it up and go work for him! He talks about what it means to really care about your employees and how your growth is dependent on them. I want to strongly compel you to listen to this podcast if you're in the service based business!

Steve Jenkins from Enterprises talks about his growing business and the global economy. Steve has taken calculated risks over the years and have learned from each and every failure. Over the years, he has adapted his business as the market has changed. This includes strategic partnerships, listening to his customers, and "letting go" and trusting others in the business.

Graham Smith shares some very deep principles on how he has grown his company from a small, solo builder - to a large real estate tycoon! We were hoping for a silver bullet but what he gave us was a foundation to build any business into a large, thriving company.