Eposide 3 – Downsized But Not Out
The Mellon’s team returns to the office after months of working remotely. Spoiler alert: a new romance seems to be brewing.
Mellon's Place
An Email Soap Opera
Fans of our hit email soap opera are in for a big surprise: the Workforce Junction Studios is delighted to present an all new Season 2 with streaming animation and AI voices for the characters you know and love.
New viewers can check out Season 1 episodes to catch up on all the romance, drama, humor, and relationship-first business breakthroughs.
We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we did producing it.
Also, if you haven’t watched before, or would like to refresh your memory, check out the lovable cast of characters here.
About Mellon’s Place
The show was introduced last year to bring a little fun and humor to the Workforce Junction family of employee benefits advisors, agency principals, strategic partners, and… well, family. At the time we all needed a little lift.
Now, as we find our way through the pandemic, we bring you a new and improved Mellon’s Place.
Mellon & Associates Benefits, LLC located in the fictional city of Beansville, Nebraska. In their own way, each character has overcome personal, social and business challenges to reach new levels of success – alone and together. Filled with drama, comedy, romance and suspense, every episode touches the hearts of employee benefit professionals everywhere.
Watch this Quick Take video (3 mins.) about why we started producing Mellon’s Place.
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Season 2
Season 1
Episode 2 – Virtual Is Reality
Follow along with how the team is adjusting to the "new normal" of doing virtual business.
Episode 1 – It’s A Family Affair
Find out who the new cast member is and if Ray Shersharpe's relationship-first strategy works during the "new normal"
Episode #8: The Dashboard Edge
The entire agency is working together like a finely tuned machine. Every client they choose to work with is engaged in a year-round adventure to make every element of the…
Episode #1: Omens of the Inevitable
Really Big Client wants a ben admin system in the worst way… and that’s how they’re going to get it. Can the team at Mellon and Associates pull it off?
Episode #2: The Tech-Only Train Wreck
Reader discretion advised. The resulting train wreck is chilling. Is there a silver lining? Find out next episode.
Episode #3: Clues Among the Wreckage
The team at Mellon and Associates tries to figure out why they can’t seem to get online enrollment technology to work for them. How did we get here? What made…
Episode #4: Searching for the Phoenix
Picking up the pieces and moving on. “There’s gotta be a better way to bring tech to our clients!” Walter implores the benefit gods.
Episode #5: Dashboard Dreams
Cybil hears about an entirely different approach to ben admin. Her investigation and introduction to Ray lead to an unexpected surprise for the entire team.
Episode #6: Leap of Faith
Despite torrents of trepidation, Ray convinces the Mellon’s Place team to try a One-Client Test Drive. The tension is palpable, the sparks fly, and after blinking their eyes a couple…
Episode #7: On-Purpose Prospecting
Juan’s dreams come true. He now has everything he needs – and a team to back him up – for attracting, onboarding and retaining bigger, better clients.
Cast of Characters
- Walter Mellon: Agency principal, known as “the tinkerer” who is always looking to do things differently (not always better), and determined to take the agency to the next level.
- Dee Zaster: Client service team leader and relationship guru yearning for recognition and a chance to change the world.
- Juan Manband: Producer with a (mostly) well-hidden inferiority complex who dreams of becoming more than a sales person.
- Cybil Wrights: Account manager with an eidetic memory who never forgets a name. She lives and breathes the lives of every client she serves.
- Earl E. Bird: Second-generation business owner striving to protect his parents’ legacy while following his own path for the business he has inherited.
- Ray Sersharpe: Relationship-first zealot who’s dedicated his life to making technology work for people like our cast of characters.
Season 1 Episodes
Episode 1: Omens of the Inevitable
Really Big Client wants a ben admin system in the worst way… and that’s how they’re going to get it.
Episode 2: The Tech-Only Train Wreck
Reader discretion advised. The resulting train wreck is chilling. Is there a silver lining? Find out next episode.
Episode 3: Clues Among the Wreckage
How did we get here? What made us do it? What did we miss? What did we do wrong?
Episode 4: Searching for the Phoenix
Picking up the pieces and moving on. “There’s gotta be a better way to bring tech to our clients!” Walter implores the benefit gods.
Episode 5: Dashboard Dreams
Cybil hears about an entirely different approach to ben admin. Her investigation and introduction to Ray leads to an unexpected surprise for the entire team.
Episode 6: Leap of Faith
Despite torrents of trepidation, Ray convinces the Mellon’s Place team to try a One-Client Test Drive. The tension is palpable, the sparks fly, and after blinking their eyes a couple of times, they emerge on the other side of a complex OE as heroes.
Episode 7: On-Purpose Prospecting
Juan’s dreams come true. He now has everything he needs – and a team to back him up – for attracting, onboarding and retaining bigger, better clients.
Episode 8: The Dashboard Edge
The entire agency is working together like a finely tuned machine. Every client they choose to work with is engaged in a year-round adventure to make every element of the benefit program work to its maximum potential.