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10 Ways to Improve Your Blog Traffic

If you have a blog, most likely your focus is usually on what your next post is going to be about – and when you’re going to find the time to write it! You write a post, you optimize it, choose the perfect featured image,…

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Warm Leads: How to use your website to convert leads into awesome new clients

It is my belief that a website is best used as a living, active tool in support of your wellness business.  A well-designed website will actually help potential clients take the next steps to learn more about your care. If you offer free consults as…

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Why your Website Needs a Privacy Policy

As a health and wellness provider, you are deeply invested in the quality of care you provide your clients. Whether you are a midwife, chiropractor, reiki master, or postpartum doula, you hear countless deeply personal stories in the course of your care. Whether or not…

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How to Take Down a Website

We focus so much on building our lovely websites that it may come as a surprise to realize you’re not quite sure how to take down a website! I got the loveliest email from a longtime client last week. She is ready to retire, and…

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Free & Paid Stock Birth and Postpartum Photo Sources for your Website (Updated 2024)

Let’s face it – there is a wide range of truly bad stock photography out there readily available for you to illustrate doula care on your website. Cheesy, unrealistic, excessive pregnant glow, and Very limited diversity represented in ethnicity, and LGBTQI+ families. Most photos of…

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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…