How Anna & Mallory run their business, Bold and Pop, while living in 2 separate cities

Finding the right co-founder is one thing, but what do you do when you also live in two different cities and time zones?
 
On this week’s episode, I talked to two friends who successfully made living in two different cities, while running a business together actually work. Here’s your chance to learn how Anna and Mallory of Bold and Pop developed a system for everything from dividing up the work, to keeping the lines of communication open with their clients.
 
What this episode covers:
 

• What this week’s episode is brought you by: Blog On: A Blogging Starter Kit for Entrepreneurs, an e-book by yours truly.
• Anna and Mallory’s intro to what Bold and Pop actually does.
• How Anna got started in her industry: the traditional “going to college and then getting a job in her field” path.
• How Mallory starter in her industry, and how she started her first company pre-Bold and Pop.
• How working together at the same PR agency lead to the original “let’s start a business” conversation.
• The story behind the name, Bold and Pop (actually it was as simple as just going for it, as all good ideas are).
• When they started working in different time zones, and what lead to their decision to do that. And how the toughness of only seeing their families a couple times a year was part of that.
• How having the experience of working remotely when they lived in the city helped when they moved to different parts of the country.
• One of them is a morning person and one of them isn’t and how that helped make managing all aspects of their business easier.
• Mallory and Anna’s “checking in” system, and how being in two different time zones helps them work with a global clientele, and make sure that at least one of them can handle direct communication.
• Mallory and Anna’s love of Asana, and why they’re glad it’s something they invested in with their business.
• The reason why both of them still are also paper planner users as well.
• Their opinions on the Trello vs. Asana debate, after I admitted that I consider myself to be more of a Trello user.
• What Anna and Mallory enjoy the most about working together: “they’re a match made in business heaven!” No…seriously! But really, it’s about what’s most important: similar values, interests, and ambitions.
• How they divide up the work and make the best of each other’s strengths.
• Advice on finding the perfect co-founder: “if your end goal is not the same, you’re going to run into problems along the way!” And why it’s so much about personality and long-term planning.
• A clever analogy between a marriage and running a business together: how the similarities between how you view your lifestyle are so important.
• What the average day looks like, and how various tasks are spread out throughout the week.
• Why making time to do work on your own business rather than your client work every once in a while, is so important. And how being strategic about their content is a big part of that!
• The challenges of being strategic in a business where your day-to-day doesn’t always look the same.
• How balancing work/ life balance has been a huge part of their lives lately.
• Bold and Pop’s #BoldBossTribe blog feature that has evolved a lot lately, and turned into a thriving Facebook group (FYI yours truly was featured on that!) Submissions for the fall are now open…
•  How you can submit your story directly (alternatively, you can access the link mentioned right here)

 
About Bold and Pop/ Anna & Mallory
 
Anna Osgoodby & Mallory Musante are the Co-founders behind Bold & Pop and are based in Seattle, WA and Raleigh, NC. Together, they specialize in working with other lifestyle entrepreneurs and small businesses to reach their goals by launching engaging social media and influencer marketing campaigns as well as building brands from the ground up through logo, branding and website design. They also host a blog series and Facebook group called the #BoldBossTribe that is focused on supporting fellow business owners, bloggers and side hustlers.
 
Where you can find Bold and Pop Online:
· Website: https://boldandpop.com/
· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boldandpop
· Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/BoldandPop/
· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boldandpop/
· Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/boldandpop/
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