Promote Your Downtown to New Markets

Marianna Hayes is President of Clinton, Mississippi-based HALO Business Advisors, a community and small business marketing advisory firm that she founded with a business partner in 1999. Since then, Marianna has spoken to and successfully coached thousands of community leaders, small business owners, Main Street, Chamber of Commerce and business development organizations across the United States.

Marianna’s passion and vision for America’s downtowns and small business owners is contagious. Marianna frequently posts her advice and practical resources to her popular weblog at www.resultsrevolution.com. She is a member of the USA Today’s Entrepreneurs Panel, a frequent speaker at the National Main Street Conference, America’s Mart University, and to other community organizations and conferences across America.

Besides a passion for small business success, Marianna enjoys cooking with her children, traveling to exciting downtown destinations, collecting postcards and posters from her consulting and speaking destinations and relaxing at her family’s farm in rural Mississippi.

Marianna is a native of Lexington, Miss. She attended Belhaven College and completed her studies in Communications and Psychology at Mississippi College. She currently resides in Clinton, Miss. Marianna has two children: a son, Miller, who is 7 years old and a daughter Rachel, who is 3.