THE WEBSITE DOULA BLOG
How to safely research health and wellness domain names in 2024.
If you’re a health and wellness professional, whether you’re a doula, chiropractor, yoga teacher, birth center or wellness clinic, you likely have been through a lot of possibilities for your business and domain name. Now that you have a great idea you have to see…
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Your Doula Business Cards for 2024
Way back when I started my life as a self-employed doula and a childbirth educator, a tiny business card was all I needed. It was a standard VistaPrint design (the funkiest one they had), and included my Name, Services, Phone Number, Email, and Website. Full…
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5 Ways to Move Beyond Competition as Doulas (updated for 2024)
Is competition really an issue in the doula world? It seems that the answer depends on who you ask. There do seem to be some communities where competition, at least as it might be experienced in a negative way, simply doesn’t come into play. Perhaps…
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Teux Deux Review 2024: Your To-Do List Productivity Hack for Wellness Pros
Introducing my 2024 Review of Teux Deux, my favorite to do list tool that just keeps getting better every year I use it. Their team is incredibly responsive, continually looking to fine-tune & add features while still keeping is sweet and simple so there is…
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Are you stuck at 6cm? Why it’s so hard to write website copy for your doula website.
I’ve seen a lot of doula websites in my years as a birth professional and website designer, and unfortunately a lot of them are almost exactly the same. Sure, the colors, logo & photos might vary, but the actual content tends to be boringly standard…
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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…
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Rock 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…
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Do 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…
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How 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…
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How 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…
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A 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…
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Want 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…
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Why 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…
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Five 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…
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Five 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…
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Why Choose Workspace (Gsuite) as your Email Provider
A surprisingly complex topic that comes up over and over again with my web design clients is email. How do I create a domain-based email or should I just use gmail? Can I get a free email? How many email accounts can I have? What…
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Choosing Your Domain Name (updated for 2024)
More often than not, I get a new client calling me for help building their new website who has a fantastic creative name for their business that has only one major catch: <em>The domain name is not available.</em> Perhaps someone else is using it for…
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Core Web Vitals: How the new Google Update will impact your wellness website
Once again, I get to write you a “Friendly FYI” blog post. This time, it’s about an upcoming change on Google that will impact your presence in search results (SEO). Ouch, I know. But don’t walk away, please. Keep reading. Do you have a wellness…
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