Marianna Hayes Chapman

Founder & Marketing Coach, HALO Business Advisors

Marianna Hayes is founder and marketing coach at HALO Business Advisors, home to America’s Main Street Marketing Experts, a strategic marketing firm that she founded with a business partner in 1999. Since 2004, Marianna has been mesmerizing audiences with her Southern charm and wit along with her practical, forward-thinking, take-action approach to marketing. Marianna has keynoted and spoken at over 100 events, private and public, across the United States. Marianna is well-respected by colleagues and clients alike for her measurement-centric approach to small business and community marketing and her deep understanding of traditional, web and social media tools. By combining technologies and tactics too often reserved for corporate America with innovative strategies, thorough training and right-sized budgets, Marianna successfully teaches clients how to first monitor then target, connect, engage, convert, and retain customers (and volunteers) using a cocktail of off-line, web-based and social media marketing. Whether a board room discussion or a room full of 3,000 people, the energy and information Marianna presents is unforgettable, practical and applicable. Marianna’s passion and vision for America’s independent and innovative small businesses and their local communities is contagious and the buzz follows long after her presentations are complete. Marianna frequently posts her advice and practical resources to her popular Results Revolution blog. Her advice has been featured in numerous local and national print and web publications including the Wall Street Journal and TheStreet.com. Marianna is a native of Lexington, Miss. where she chaired the town’s first Main Street Promotions Committee then later received “Volunteer of the Year” from the same organization. Her firm was also 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 and her husband Andy reside near downtown Clinton, Miss. with their three young children and a dog named Molly. When they aren’t traveling to downtowns across America, they stroll the Old Towne Clinton Market and enjoy the dining options offered in the nearby Fondren Neighborhood.