Jenny Shih, LLC

Steal This! My Step-by-Step Guide Telling Your Clients Your Raising Your Rates

Once a client is ready to raise their rates, there’s a panicky moment I brace for, the one where they’re freaking out, saying things like: How do I tell my clients?! They’ll all leave me! Maybe I’ll wait a few more months to do it! So if after the last few articles on pricing (here [...]

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Steal This! My Perfect Pricing Strategy

Last week I shared my tried and true method for knowing if it’s time to raise you rates, which may have left you with these questions: What do I charge now? How do I tell my clients? I’ve got answers for you, in my famous, gotcha-covered, step-by-step, Steal This! fashion. Today you’re going to discover [...]

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5 Tried-and-True Signs It’s Time to Raise Your Rates

Someone recently asked a really awesome question on my Facebook page: “Was there something specific that gave you the confidence to crank your rates up? Was it list size? Community engagement? Or something that gave you the sign to go big? I’m not sure what to look for.” I got excited about this one. Raising [...]

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How Badly Do You Want It?

How badly do you want your business to succeed? How badly do you want to make money? How badly do you want to change lives? Enough to work late into the evening? Enough to put yourself out there — to be loved, to be criticized? Enough to put the time in to really make it [...]

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Life getting in the way of business? Here’s what to do about it

All my internal STOP signals were flashing. The message was clear: Don’t take another step! Wait! Not now! Stop, Jenny, stop! I just didn’t want to hear it. Why? Well, for one thing, I’m stubborn. I also just didn’t think stepping back was an option for me. Whatever was going on that my body [...]

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What Boston and The Voice Taught Me About My Life

I feel really lucky to do the work I do. To have created a business that lets me design my own schedule. To meet and work with incredible people. To have clients who inspire me to do a better job and to make a difference in the world. And then tragedies like the one in [...]

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Messy to Enchanted: One Piece of Paper That Saved Me from 3 Months of Stress

As you likely know by now, I’m all about organization, systems, and planning ahead. But strangely enough, there was one piece of the efficiency puzzle that I kept dodging. Like, hands-over-my-ears-shouting-NO level avoidance. The offending party? Editorial calendars. In case you’re not sure what an editorial calendar is, I’ll tell you! It’s a plan of [...]

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4 Surprising Benefits of Ignoring Your Business

I’m back in the groove of business, slowly putting my post-vacation inspiration into action. First up is today’s surprising post, which found itself in my head one day while I was sitting on the beach. I grabbed a rock and etched it into a coconut so I wouldn’t forget what I wanted to tell you. [...]

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Steal This! My Work-Free, Stress-Free Vacation Checklist

I just got back from two awesome weeks in Hawaii and enjoyed a very necessary break from work. Fourteen delicious days of laying on the beach, surfing, and island exploration were the perfect remedy for the last five crazy years. (Yes, it’s been 5 years since our last real vacation.) Now I’ve finally unpacked and [...]

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One Simple Idea That Can Increase Your Success Tenfold

Have you noticed that I tend to dish a lot of secrets on this blog? Business system secrets, secrets for getting more clients, and my smartest business investments, to name a few. Today I’m going to let you in on another secret. This one simple idea helped me become a successful corporate manager at age [...]