Marianna Hayes
Marianna Hayes is founder and marketing coach at HALO Business Advisors, home to America’s Main Street Marketing Experts, a firm that that she founded with a business partner in 1999. Since then, Marianna has keynoted and spoken at conferences, taught dozens of small business seminars, and successfully coached hundreds of small business owners, community leaders, Main Street directors, Chamber of Commerce executives and business development organizations across the United States.
Marianna’s passion and vision for America’s small business owners and their local communities is contagious. Marianna frequently posts her advice and practical resources to her popular Results Revolution blog. She is a frequent speaker at the National Main Street Conference and America’s Mart University as well as many other regional, state and local level small business groups across America.
Her advice has been featured in numerous local and national print and web publications including the Wall Street Journal and TheStreet.com.
Besides a passion for small business success, Marianna enjoys cooking with her family, 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. where she chaired the town’s first Main Street Promotions Committee, later received “Volunteer of the Year” from the same organization and was awarded “Best Image Promotion” two years in a row from the Mississippi Main Street Association for projects HALO completed on behalf of her hometown.
Marianna attended Belhaven College and completed her studies in Communications and Psychology at Mississippi College. Home is anywhere in the Deep South where she can spend time with her husband Andy and three children, Miller, 8, Rachel, 4 and Kate, 3 and the family Springer spaniel named Molly.








