Small Biz Survival: About the authors of Small Biz Survival

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Becky McCray

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I started Small Biz Survival because I am a small town entrepreneur. I believe small town entrepreneurs have a lot to teach other businesses. And when local entrepreneurs prosper, they help their small town prosper, too.

I write about small business and rural issues, based on my own successes and failures. My husband and I own a small town retail liquor store and cattle ranch. I also work with city governments with project management and grant writing.

My latest project is Tourism Currents, teaching social media skills to tourism professionals. It's a joint project with Sheila Scarborough.

Lately, I'm in demand as a small business, social media and small town speaker.

I also write a personal blog, Out Standing in My Field, and you can always find all my social connections and links at BeckyMcCray.com.

If you want to email me directly, stop by the contact form.

Glenna Mae Hendricks "Maesz"

This is my mom, Glenna Mae Hendricks. She is an entrepreneur and income tax consultant, so we get lots of good tax tips from her. She is an oenophile ("look that up in your Funk and Wagnall's," she says), and a wine enjoyment teacher/guide who also writes wine notes at the Allen's Retail Liquors site. Her political thoughts (and occasional outbursts of domesticity) appear at Old Feminist and Wild-eyed Liberal. Maesz is also on Twitter.

Jon Swanson

This is my friend Jon Swanson. Jon has been a regular reader and occasional (OK, sporadic) contributor around here since 2006, even though we didn't meet (in person) until 2008.

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 300 Words a Day. You'll also find him on Twitter.

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