Posts by Sarah Juliusson
Domain Privacy. What you need to know.
Most health and wellness business owners I work with on websites have never heard of domain privacy, and bump into the question of website privacy for the first time when setting up their new domain and hosting account. The cost for domain privacy is usually around $12 / year, which is pretty negligible in the…
Read MoreRock your health and wellness blog & social media with ChatGPT (with these tips to make it better!)
Are you struggling to get out a new health & wellness blog post? Stuck figuring out what to say on a social media post? Need to generate client handouts and feeling overwhelmed by the task? There’s a new AI kid on the block: ChatGPT, and it’s all the rage. It’s really impressive, actually. I’ve tested…
Read MoreDo you use Google Analytics? How to make the switch to GA4.
Every once in a while there’s a big shift in the way we do things online thanks to Google shaking things up… A few years ago it was Google Core Web Vitals. A few years before that it was ensuring your site had a security certificate installed (SSL). And almost 10 years ago I got…
Read MoreHow long does it take for my new website to show in google search results?
It’s hard to resist, I know… So often the moment we launch a new website, clients immediately hop on google the next morning expecting to show up #1 on page 1 of search results. Or at least somewhere on that page! Or the next page perhaps? Somewhere on google? Anywhere on google! I get it.…
Read MoreHow long will a good website last for my business?
I met with a potential client recently. Built in 2017, her site has reached a point where it is time for a website refresh. The technology is no longer current. The backend has tools she’s no longer using. There is information that no longer matches her services. Photos of her young kids who are now…
Read MoreA Fresh Approach to Childbirth Education: Meet HelloBirth
Meet Jenny Bennett, founder of HelloBirth Class! I’ve worked with Jenny for many years, and have watched her transition from part-time practitioner to full-time childbirth educator and doula, found an agency, train doulas, reestablish herself in a new state, and more. Like so many childbirth educators when I first started out I adhered closely to…
Read MoreWant to build your own website? 6 questions you should answer first.
As a website designer (aka website doula…) I get the calls from the doulas who are ready to throw in the towel after months of wasted time trying to figure out whatever website platform they have chosen. I get the calls from the doulas whose websites have been live for a year and haven’t resulted…
Read MoreWhy your website needs regular health checks.
I want you to take a moment and consider the things that turn you OFF when you’re cruising the internet looking for a service or product. Slow loading pages or images? Yep. Broken links? Most definitely. A security certificate warning? I won’t even try to open the site. Incorrect or out-of-date information? It makes me…
Read MoreRock your To-Do List with Teux Deux! A Productivity Hack for Wellness Pros
When you run a holistic business you have a lot of balls in the air at all times. From billing to blogging, the admin aspects of running a wellness biz can be overwhelming. There are lots of fancy solutions out there for project management, but I’d like to introduce you to one of my favorite…
Read MoreDoula Jobs: How to be a full-time doula
Having built doula website designs with hundreds of new & established birth and postpartum doulas over my 12+ years as The Website Doula, I’ve seen doulas at every stage of growth. From brand new doulas just establishing themselves and deciding if they want to become a full-time doula, to those who are now growing a…
Read MoreFive key business mistakes I have made in my years of self-employment
Ready? Here are five key business mistakes I have made over the years that I wish I had done differently… This is how we learn, right? We make mistakes. Ideally, we learn from them. I’m doing this in the name of showing that we are all on a learning path, that where we are right…
Read MoreFive expert design tips for your new health coaching website.
*While I wrote this post specifically for health coaches, the lessons below are equally applicable to just about any wellness practitioner and entrepreneur. If you’re a doula, therapist, acupuncturist, or chiropractor, you can keep reading as well! So you’re a health coach! There are a lot of steps between being a brand new health coach…
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