MelodieFaery

MelodieFaery Hey there! I'm MelodieFaery.

I help small business owners do more in their businesses, and helping them get some work life balance by taking the tasks off their to-do lists.

2024.There are no words to encompass everything that has happened this year.The year started with both a client gain and...
01/01/2025

2024.

There are no words to encompass everything that has happened this year.

The year started with both a client gain and a client loss. Its crazy to think that the loss isn't even a year old yet. It feels so far away, and yet so new and fresh. I'm so thankful for the people I met with that client.

I'm grateful for every client that I have worked with, on their dreams that will help their families.

2024 also saw plant changes with my husband. He's auto-worker UAW, and can transfer plants when openings happen. He went from second shift, to first shift to third shift at 3 different plants in the course of like 8 months. Talk about time whiplash. November was completely off-kilter, and it took until the middle of December for the world to right itself upright again.

2025 will hopefully see more growth, more life to live. For both me, and for you.

Here's to 2025 friends.

You or your kids are sick, but your business momentum doesn’t have to suffer. If you’re not scheduling your content ahea...
10/12/2024

You or your kids are sick, but your business momentum doesn’t have to suffer.

If you’re not scheduling your content ahead of time, here are some on the spot, even if you’re not feeling well to keep the momentum high.

*Post old content - do you have a reel or post from a few months ago that did well with views and/or engagement? Download it (without the watermark) and change the sound (if applicable), and repost it. No one’s going to notice.

*Make a B-Roll video - did you have an old video of yourself doing something random? Or even film yourself without showing your face. Add text on the screen related to what you want talk about, add a trending sound, and post.

*Use a Template - Using Cap-Cut with a green screen video with the trending sound, or use Canva to make a video.

Save this post for later when you need it!

Sometimes you have to pivot and do work at the library because you’ve been without power for almost 24 hours. I’m doing ...
28/08/2024

Sometimes you have to pivot and do work at the library because you’ve been without power for almost 24 hours.

I’m doing light work, that mostly research related at the moment because I am too tired to do much else. Storm made us lose power and then more storms came through at 12-3 making it impossible to sleep.

We’re at the library charging devices and making sure we have things to do in case our power is still out late into tonight.

It’s not to be able pivot when needed.

Behind the scenes: where I work. I actually just cleaned up my desk. It was closing me in, so something had to be done. ...
26/08/2024

Behind the scenes: where I work.

I actually just cleaned up my desk. It was closing me in, so something had to be done.

…which lead to me redoing my bookcases. 🤷🏼

(That’s probably the most adhd sentence I’ve ever written.)

My ✨work space✨ Is it a little messy? Yes. Did I just clean it up a little bit? Yes. There were books stacked on either ...
26/08/2024

My ✨work space✨

Is it a little messy? Yes. Did I just clean it up a little bit? Yes.

There were books stacked on either side and I was feeling closed in.

Just because you can work anywhere doesn’t mean you need to work anywhere. Having a dedicated space for where you do your work can be helpful in your productivity, and your mindset.

The best thing we did was move our computers out of our bedroom, and into a separate space completely. We sleep better, and are able to do more in our new space when we’re actively working on something.

You never know how much time a task is actually taking you until you do one of two things: A time audit of your dayHire ...
20/08/2024

You never know how much time a task is actually taking you until you do one of two things:

A time audit of your day
Hire someone to do that task for you

This client got at least 3 hours daily back into their day simply by having me take over one task. Answering IG DMs may seem like a simple task, something that you think that you could do yourself - but this client got hundreds of DMs a day, and on a Monday, after not working all weekend? Hoo. There were a lot.

A virtual assistant can help you get time back in your business. Who really wants to spend time tied to their computer all day?

Tips to Get More Done During the Day!Time Blocking - We're starting with my favorite. I used to live my life on Time Blo...
16/08/2024

Tips to Get More Done During the Day!

Time Blocking - We're starting with my favorite. I used to live my life on Time Blocking. I would set an alarm for hour blocks, and each hour had a specific task to do in that time. Then once the time was up, I would stop what I was doing and move on. If I finished the task early, I would stay in the space, and wait for the time to run out. If I tried to go sit on the couch....well. It would be over. 🤣 I would schedule household tasks, work tasks, and any outside tasks. It was great for me. I stopped because of Covid, and I haven't gotten it back.

Delegate Tasks to a Virtual Assistant - Just because you're in business for yourself, doesn't mean you have to everything by yourself. If you're making enough money in your business that your to-do list is longer then the day, then you are making enough money to hire a virtual assistant.

Say No to Things More - Treat your business like a business. Yes it fun to have the time to maybe go out with friends, but then you'll spend the rest of the day behind. Pick and choose what you say yes too, and say no to more things. (Its still important to go out with friends, you don't stop being a person because you're a mom and a business owner, so still say yes every once in a while. Its important to be mindful.)

Remember Your Self Care - This one ties into the last one. Stop working when you end the day. Set business hours, keep the business hours, and end your day when you say you're going to end your day. Why is this a productivity tip? Because you can't pour from an empty cup. You won't get as much in a day if you're tired for 99% of it, and can't muster up your usual energy to do your business tasks.

Putting some of these tips to use in your business can help you start getting your time back in your business.

15/08/2024

Do I just forget about myself? 🤣

Working for yourself is the hardest, because there's ALWAYS something to do. Even though I spend all day working on my business; after the kids go to bed, all I want to do is continue working. Even though my time could be much better spent doing other things I enjoy - reading, writing, playing games, spending time with my husband, just to name a few.

Sometimes you just need someone to tell you to take care of yourself.

5 Things you can have a Virtual Assistant do for you and your business to help you grow and gain work/life balance:1. Cu...
14/08/2024

5 Things you can have a Virtual Assistant do for you and your business to help you grow and gain work/life balance:

1. Customer Service Emails - Do you spend hours in your day answering emails from customers? Wish you could have someone else do it for you? Well, you can. A virtual assistant can help take this task from you, giving you more time to focus on other tasks in your business.

2. Content Creation - You didn't become a business owner to spend all your time glued to your computer posting and scheduling content to your social medias, your blog/website, and your email list. There is so much writing involved, and words are hard. A virtual assistant can help you by taking over that, and helping you figure out what to post and when.

3. Social Media DMs - Shifting through social media DMs, looking for actual questions or concerns, can be a battle in itself. There's so many different spam messages that come in DMs, it can be a full time job just shifting through them all. Hiring a VA to shift through them for you, and answering the actual questions for you can give you that time in your day back.

4. Copywriting - The writing used in your content is important. It persuades customers to take an action on your content - buy a product, click a link, donate, or anything else that makes them leave the site they're on - needs to be written in a way that gets them to do that.

5. Data Entry - This could mean a lot of things. Anything that requires taking information from one place and transferring it to another place - customer information in a tracking sheet, uploading new customer emails to your email list, customer invoicing - are a few examples of what a virtual assistant can help you with in your business.

Working with a virtual assistant, even for just a short period of time, can help change your business. You'll have more time to do what you want - including having more time with your family.

Hi, I'm Melodie, owner of MelodieFaery - a Virtual Assistant. I help small business owners do more in their businesses, ...
13/08/2024

Hi, I'm Melodie, owner of MelodieFaery - a Virtual Assistant.

I help small business owners do more in their businesses, and helping them get some work life balance by taking the tasks off their to-do lists.

There's not enough time in the day to get a everything done on the to-do list. Maybe its time to think about delegating a few tasks to a virtual assistant like me.

Apply to work with me, and we can put together a plan to help you achieve your business goals, and help you get some work/life balance back in your life.

04/08/2024

I joined Naomi's Power Lunch program over the spring, and this is what she helped me accomplish:

-I wrote my first proposal offer, and got my first ever rejection.
-I made and tweaked my first sales page for a product.
-I finished a few blog posts that were in progress.
-I remembered that its okay to take a step back for a second to get your mental health back on track.

Each of those points were talked about during the weekly zooms, and it was so valuable to have face to face kind and constructive feedback on the sales page. She helped me work out the bumps in the blog posts (meaning I wasn't sure if I like "this" part, and she said how about you change it like "this", and it worked).

She gave me permission to take a small step back when the end of school was overwhelming me, on top of everything else I needed to do in life. Reminding me that I am in charge of my own schedule and if I really needed to take a small break I could.

Being on zoom with small other business owners is so valuable, being able to network, and learn what others are doing, and offering any encouragement that I could. Just because you're in business for yourself, doesn't mean you have to do this by yourself.

Today’s my birthday. I am 40 years old. I was taking time to reflect the past decade of my life. At 30, I had just had m...
24/07/2024

Today’s my birthday. I am 40 years old.

I was taking time to reflect the past decade of my life. At 30, I had just had my second child. I was working in career I was burnt out at, but still loved.

A year later I would go to lose that job, and decided to change my path. I went through many changes - getting a part time job, leaving that job to start my first bout in Direct Sales, that leading to my online clothing boutique with LLR, to me becoming a virtual assistant and really finding joy in what I’m doing.

If you would’ve told me at 30 im doing what I’m doing now, I would’ve laughed.

But life has a funny way of leading you through. If you take one thing from my short story, it’s don’t let the bumps in the road derail you from finding a new path for yourself.

Keep going.

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