About the Authors of Small Biz Survival

Becky McCray



Becky McCray is a small town entrepreneur. She writes about small business and rural issues, based on her own successes and failures. She is the co-owner of a small town retail liquor store and small cattle ranch. As a consultant, she helps small businesses to maintain their web presence and helps city governments with project management and grant writing.

Previously, she was worked as an antiques dealer, city administrator, nonprofit executive and newspaper reporter. Becky also writes a personal blog, Out Standing in My Field, and an African hunting safari blog. She is one of the Small Business Outside Voice contributors at US News, and she writes a monthly Small Business Letter from America for the Small Biz Pod UK.

Becky is a noted speaker on small business issues and new marketing tools.

Posts about Becky:

• Helping small towns and small businesses
  
• What I learned from failure
• The face behind the blog (photos)
  
• Five things you may not know about me
  
• Five MORE things
• Five things about me (things I can do)
  

Interviews:

• Helping other small businesses through a Blog (video) by Shashi Bellamkonda
• Push My Follow (audio) by some social media all stars
• Conversation (audio) with Zane Safrit
  
• Business networking advice by Josh Hinds
• Entrepreneur interview by Cristian Dorobantescu
• Small Towns, Big Impact: A Conversation with Liquor Store Operator, Rancher and Blogger Becky McCray by Winning Workplaces

You can connect with Becky through:

• Twitter
• Flickr
• FriendFeed
  
• Email
• PO Box 392, Alva, OK 73717-0392

Glenna Mae Hendricks "Maesz"

Glenna Mae Hendricks is an entrepreneur and income tax consultant, and the proud mother of Becky. She is an oenophile (look that up in your Funk and Wagnall's), and a wine enjoyment teacher/guide who also writes wine notes at the Allen's Retail Liquors site. Her political thoughts appear at Old Feminist and Wild-eyed Liberal.

• 5 Things you may not know about Maesz

Maesz is also on Twitter.


Jeanne Cole "OkieJ"


Jeanne Cole is an entrepreneur and business development specialist with the Small Business Development Center.

• Five things about OkieJ
  

OkieJ is also on Twitter.


Jon Swanson


Jon has been a regular reader and occasional contributor around here since 2006.

Jon works as a pastor, but he understands business better than many so-called business people. He may claim to be too chicken to be an entrepreneur, but he wrote the best small business post that I have ever read. He gets that it is about people, relationships, service, and yes, even love.

He offers insight from a customer's perspective, and he is a storyteller. He knows how to choose just the right words to get his point across, clearly and simply. Not surprising, given his background in teaching communication.

Jon's regular internet home is Levite Chronicles, where he talks about faith, family, productivity, and relationship. I love how he looks "at normal things in odd ways and difficult things in simple ways."

You'll also find him on Twitter.



Mark Hayward


Mark Hayward is a small business owner, entrepreneur and humanitarian.

He is an advocate of using blogging, social media and web innovation for supporting small business growth and non-profit success. He uses these tools for cost effective marketing, brand/organization awareness raising, and for building meaningful collaborative partnerships.


Most recently he created, launched and co-founded the non-profit organization, Train for Humanity, which relies solely on social media (Web, blogging, Twitter, etc) to help raise awareness and funds for those who have been affected by genocide or civil war.

Mark lives in the Caribbean on Culebra Island (off the east coast of Puerto Rico) where he owns the Palmetto Guesthouse and you can follow him on Twitter @mark_hayward.

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