Journal – Page 2 – RJ McCollam

November 2, 2017The Freelance Podcast

The Freelance Podcast 039: Freelance Q&A – 2

Show Notes: Freelance Q&A takes listener questions and I spend the whole episode answering them. Follow & Subscribe Please subscribe via your podcast service of choice and send in your questions and comments to podcast@rjmccollam.com. Rate The Freelance Podcast! You can help us reach other freelancers just like you and I by leaving a 5 star rating […]

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June 9, 2017The Freelance Podcast

The Freelance Podcast 038: Freelance Q&A – 1

Show Notes: Freelance Q&A takes listener questions and I spend the whole episode answering them. Follow & Subscribe Please subscribe via your podcast service of choice and send in your questions and comments to podcast@rjmccollam.com. Rate The Freelance Podcast! You can help us reach other freelancers just like you and I by leaving a 5 star rating […]

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May 2, 2017The Freelance Podcast

The Freelance Podcast 037: My third year as a full-time freelancer

Show Notes: This is my 3rd annual review of what my year as a full-time freelancer was like. I go into my most successful year, tell you the exact amount of dollars I made, and go into why this was a super challenging year for me. Follow & Subscribe Please subscribe via your podcast service […]

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February 19, 2017The Freelance Podcast

The Freelance Podcast 036: Freelance Q&A on pricing, clients with larger budgets, and where I get my designs

Show Notes: I sent out a newsletter recently asking for questions that I could help other freelancers with. I got some really good questions and in this episode I go through and answer them all. We talk about pricing, getting pst the struggle of clients who don’t want to pay what you charge, and what […]

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February 17, 2017General

Update: How to Make a Living as a WordPress Developer

Oh boy, here we go. Ha. For reals though today is an exciting day for current students of my WordPress course and also for those of you that have been on the fence about enrolling. How to Make a Living as a WordPress Developer gets two new videos that provide over an hour of new […]

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August 30, 2016Personal

Rebranding my freelance company – Choosing a name

I have decided to rebrand my freelance company and am sharing my process with you. When it comes to starting something new for me I always begin with the name. In this video I walk you through my thought process of why I am rebranding in the first place as well as what my criteria […]

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July 8, 2016General

Complacency Killed the Freelance Star

I have been a freelance developer long enough to see there be a couple major shifts in what is considered to be the new standard in building websites. In just the past few years responsive sites built on top of CMS’s have become the standard, where before those were potential up sells you offered your […]

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July 1, 2016Web

Using a featured image as a background image in WordPress

When building custom WordPress themes for clients I like to give them as much control over their content as possible. However, when you take into account that clients may not be aware enough when inputting images and content their site may end up looking pretty rough if they uploaded a huge image or short piece […]

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May 12, 2016Web

Automatically password protect child pages of parent page in WordPress

A couple clients recently needed some basic password protection for a selected group of WordPress pages. I thought “Great, WordPress already has that built in”, which it does, but with one drawback. Password protection when used in WordPress only applies to the page that it was setup on. Now, like anything in life, there are […]

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May 6, 2016The Freelance Podcast

The Freelance Podcast 035: Back to basics

Show Notes: Sometimes you need to make sure you are taking all the noise coming your way and send it through your own personal filter. Never forget why you do what you do, and don’t be afraid to stop other stuff so you can keep your foundation as a freelancer strong. Follow & Subscribe Please […]

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