Journal – Page 4 – RJ McCollam

February 12, 2016The Freelance Podcast

The Freelance Podcast 024: My second year as a full-time freelancer

Show Notes: I recap my second year as a full-time freelancer. Links Hector – Project management for freelancers 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 […]

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February 5, 2016The Freelance Podcast

The Freelance Podcast 023: Stop Romanticizing the hustle

Show Notes: The word HUSTLE has become both a great movement and a dangerous way to live your life. It can be so detrimental to the way you work when you compare yourself to others who you think are super successful and use hustle as an excuse why you are not there, or what you […]

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December 16, 2015Personal

How I messed up my first product launch

I got excited. I got excited and wanted everyone to know that I was making my first product and it would be coming out soon. I was pretty vocal about it for about a week, and while I did get some pre-orders for the product I launched to crickets. 0 sales on launch day. Some […]

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December 1, 2015Web

Why I Choose WordPress

Long gone are the days where all your content lived on individual HTML pages and you would FTP to your site to update a sentence. This is probably pretty obvious, and to be honest some of you may not remember the good ol’ days of cowboy coding. Nowadays there are many content management system options […]

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November 25, 2015Personal

How to make a living as a WordPress developer

I have been working on putting together a course on how to actually make a living as a WordPress developer, instead of simply how to build a custom theme. If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram then you have seen some of my progress. The course is nearly completed and in the spirit of […]

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October 26, 2015Personal

Freelancers: Take a simple step to improve your health

I have the typical story of a guy who grew up playing sports. I was always in good shape because I was playing baseball, football, wrestling, or racing motorcross. Then I stopped playing sports, got a job sitting all day, started really liking the taste of beer, got married, had a kid, and next thing […]

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October 13, 2015General

Simple Habit To Be More Organized As A Freelancer

Each day I wake up and while I am brushing my teeth, taking a shower, getting dressed, and getting my coffee I am mentally taking stock of what needs to be done that day. For me, and probably for many other freelancers, my day usually consists of project management, marketing, little tasks, and a main […]

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October 6, 2015General

Why & How I Work With Agencies As A Freelancer

You hear all the time that as a freelancer you need to find and service a specific niche instead of just trying to work with anyone that will hire you. This is good advice and I have spoken before about how I specifically work mainly with creative agencies. Working with agencies is great for me […]

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September 29, 2015Personal

The Wall

Imagine you are running a marathon. If you are like me your first thought was “Holy crap, there is no way I could run a marathon”. Running a marathon would be challenging, even for someone who is in good shape. Really though as a freelancer that is exactly what we are doing. Doing something that even […]

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August 5, 2015General

5 project management tips for freelancers

I remember times in my career as a freelancer where project management wasn’t even on my radar because I had no projects that needed to be managed. In the biz we call that being in the famine part of the feast or famine cycle. Then I remember a particular time in my career where I […]

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