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Welcome back to "Behind the Buzzwords" with your hosts Tracy Eames, Arielle Morten, and Yanta Haynes! In today's episode, we discuss marketing strategy and digital advertising. Yanta highlights the importance of having a clear plan when using Facebook ads to avoid wasting money. Tracy reinforces the need to tailor marketing strategies to each business by truly understanding their audience. We'll a...

In this week's episode of "Behind the Buzzwords" with your hosts Tracy Eames, Arielle Morten, and Yanta Haynes! Today, we're looking into one of the marketing world's hottest topics: Artificial Intelligence (AI). We'll explore the myths and realities of AI, its impact on marketing, and how you can leverage it to streamline your processes without losing your brand's authentic voice. Join us as we d...

In this week's episode, Tracy, Arielle, and Yanta go deep into marketing strategies and the significance of research and development for success. They break down how to create a powerful plan of action by looking at industry leaders like Apple and Coca-Cola. Plus, they share some fantastic tips on email marketing and the necessity of having a strategy in place, especially for those tricky Facebook...

In this week's episode, Tracy Eames, Arielle Morten, and Yanta Haynes kick off the debut episode of "Behind the Buzzwords"! Get to know your hosts as they discuss what got them into marketing and their unique perspectives on the industry. Together, they'll dispel some common marketing myths and dive into what makes effective marketing tick. Show Highlights: (00:00:06) - Introduction: Meet your hos...

Selina Kelley, Chief Empowerment Officer of DisruptHER joins the show to discuss business and empowerment coaching, the importance of being authentic, and her new project, The Midwest Way. Selina and our CEO, Tracy Eames discuss the importance of focusing on your personal journey and how that can impact your professional development as well. Selina describes the coaching she does through DisruptHE...

In this week’s episode, we rewind as Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about Customer Discovery.. We have received lots of questions about how we think about customer discovery, and thought we would share a bit more about our approach, along with some tips and tricks to get you started! Show Highlights: Highlight (01:36) -Tracy does a quick refresher on what is a Net Promoter Score an...

DisruptHR Columbia was held on Thursday, May 2nd.  Our CEO, Tracy Eames, joined the event to talk about the importance of Cross Functional Leadership. Her talk “ Mind the Gap: Why Cross-Functional Leadership Is Imperative and Most Organizations Don’t Have It” was a reminder to leaders about the risk of leading from a silo.  Have you ever felt like there are invisible gaps between your te...

Last Thursday was DisruptHR New Orleans., The theme of the night was the Future of Work, and there were 10 thought provoking presentations. Among them was our CEO, Tracy Eames. This week, she shares her experience presenting, enjoying the event, and simply loving the city for a few days.  Tracy’s presentation was “Redefining Leadership: Soft Skill or Strategic Imperative”.  A brief summa...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO shares a bit of behind the scenes of a day in the life of TEAMES & CO. Today we are sharing a behind the scenes look at  a trip we took last week with the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Each year our Chamber hosts a trip to a host city to support learning, exchange of ideas, and best practice sharing. This year I enjoyed a wonder...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO covers a topic that everybody is asking about: Should my team be virtual or in-person? We walk through key questions leaders should be asking themselves, and how great leaders should be able to transcend location. The answer has shades of gray, but our goal is to share a framework with you that can help you and your team choose the best m...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about how to help your teams achieve wins. All too often in our companies we operate in silos. These silos create friction between our teams and decrease our ability to reach strategic objectives. Today we are sharing a few tips and best practices about how to achieve strategic wins with your cross-functional teams.  Show...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about optimizing your strategic planning process. Do you ever feel like you are always strategic planning? You start in August, and you have customer discovery, stakeholder surveys, data reporting, program/product assessments as you start creating forecasts for what next year could look like. And that usually ends up being a 20...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about how cross-functional alignment can help you achieve more impactful strategic results. This is part of our series on how to help leaders accelerate their growth and build empowered teams.  Our goal is to share a few of our best practices and how we think about it, in an effort to help you grow your business.  In...

In this week’s episode, we welcome the Million Dollar Connectors to the show. That is right, four coaches all in one show. We have:  Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO Courtney Teasley, CEO of emeffen Melissa Well, CEO of Got AGency Ceria Woodrit, CEO of Soul Liberation Today we are talking about Frameworks and Strategy. Melissa and Ceria are our resident experts on setting up your business...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about Customer Discovery.. We have received lots of questions about how we think about customer discovery, and thought we would share a bit more about our approach, along with some tips and tricks to get you started! Show Highlights: Highlight (01:36) -Tracy does a quick refresher on what is a Net Promoter Score and why you sho...

In this week’s episode, Tracy interviews Courtney Teasley , CEO & Founder of emeffen. Courtney is a business coach for the overqualified woman, an attorney, and author of the “The Easy Way to Learn your Rights” book series.  Show Highlights: Highlight (03:17) - Courtney shares her incredible journey from attorney to professor to author to business coach. She touches on how she helped get...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is celebrating the 5th anniversary of TEAMES & CO. She takes a bit of a walk down memory lane and shares a few exciting thank you offers for the audience. Today is a bit of a celebration for us at TEAMES & CO, so we are refreshing everybody on how it all got started and how we help clients grow. Show Highlights: Highlight (02:12)...

In this week’s episode, Tracy interview’s Ceria Woodrit, Founder of Soul LIberation. We are continuing our conversations about coaching, with our lively discussion with Ceria about how she helps empower women entrepreneurs to thrive in their divine essence.   With a deep-rooted foundation in Reiki practices, Ceria not only harnesses the universal life force energy for healing but she als...

In this week’s episode, Tracy interviews Athena Cauley-Yu , Founder and aka the big boss lady of Meticulous Ink.  Athena shares her journey of entrepreneurship and the opening of Meticulous Ink, luxury letterpress print company in Bath, UK. While bespoke printing keeps her and her team busy, Athena is on a mission to help other creatives found and scale their businesses.  Show Highlights...

In this week’s episode, Tracy interviews Melissa Wells, the founder and CEO, of Got Agency where she specializes in supporting high-performing women navigating significant transitions from military service or from exhausting professional fields. She and Tracy discuss those big life transition moments, the importance of coaching, and much much more.  Show Highlights: Highlight (03:09) - Meliss...

In this week’s episode, Tracy interviews Carmen Schmidt , a small business mogul and owner of A Yarn Story, Walcot Yarns, and Events Unwound. Carmen and Tracy have a fun conversation about business coaching, building your team, connecting with you customers, and Carmen’s journey as an entrepreneur. So if you are a budding entrepreneur or a small business mogul in the making, be sure to tune in to...

We are back for Season 4! Join us for our official Intro to Season 4. This season we are picking up where we left off, and have a ton of great content. As always we will dive into the TEAMES & CO PIllars of Growth: Defining & Delighting your Customers, Setting and Achieving an Ambitious Strategy, and Building Effective and Empowered Teams.  We will have leaders, coaches, and entrepren...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Tim Cakir , a growth consultant and co-lead at Juno Talent.  Show Highlights: Tim introduces himself and his story working from door to door sales to marketing and tech, to becoming a “growth hacker”, to becoming a “growth consultant” focused on helping organizations grow sustainably (01:25) The team talks about the benefits and challenges of w...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Tom Finn , the co-founder and CEO of Leggup .  Show Highlights: Tom introduces himself and how he started Leggup, a brand new coaching platform that leverages cutting edge psychology and technology to help leaders improve both their productivity and their well-being (1:07) Tom shares his feedback for first time leaders in several ways: 1) by “i...

In this week’s episode, Mike interviews Brandon Miller , the CEO of 34 Strong , a consultancy that’s focused on building great places to work.  Show Highlights: Brandon shares his story, which started with a long line of challenging work places, and his discovery of the “Strengths” framework! (02:20) Mike and Brandon dialogue on the strengths framework (8:20)  Brandon talks about the pow...