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Avoiding Doula Burnout: The Tale of a Doula Sabbatical
I know a lovely, skilled, dynamic, and incredibly inspired doula & childbirth educator who has been at risk for doula burnout. Let’s call her Betsy. She does absolutely incredible things in her community, creating innovative offerings that have established her as a respected expert. She’s…
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Blog Strategies for Doulas: Six Tips to Keep it Simple
Want to blog but worry about the time commitment? Have trouble imagining how on earth you’ll manage to write regular posts? Blogging doesn’t have to be nearly as complicated as many birth workers imagine. I find myself sharing these same nuggets of advice over and…
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Mary’s Birth Story: The Poems of Lucille Clifton
As a devoted, albeit retired, former doula and childbirth educator, I’ve always felt a fascination with Mary’s side of the story as we approach Christmas. As a young woman I discovered a series of five Mary poems by powerful poet Lucille Clifton. From Mary’s childhood with…
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How to Get New Doula Clients
Many years ago my dear husband took an advanced networking and business skills training. He was looking to translate his international non-profit skills into a new sector, and find effective ways to communicate his worth to potential employers. He was gifted with an incredibly simple,…
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On Birth Nerds and Passwords: My Confession
As a website designer I have endless opportunities to share passwords with clients. New website login information, mailchimp logins, email passwords – I spend an unusual amount of time each week verifying passwords. As you know, a quality password should involve a blend of capital…
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Birthing Your Website: Finding Your Design Inspiration
There is this moment in the journey of birthing a new website as we seek design inspiration and just the right blend of elements. It happens with every single website I help design. It feels a lot like that moment when a labouring mom is…
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How to Schedule a Blog Post in WordPress
Keeping up a regular blog schedule can be daunting, even with the best of intentions. You know you should blog, but actually following through with regular blog posts and new content creation doesn’t always happen. One of my top tips for wellness practitioners such as…
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Spam or Real? Comments on Your Blog
If you blog on your wellness website, you likely get spam comments appearing in your inbox from time to time. One arrived in my inbox this morning that I actually read twice just to be sure my spam hunch was correct. They aren’t just about…
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The Downside of Facebook Like Ladders
I know how lonely Facebook can be… When you created your business Facebook page, perhaps you envisioned lively conversation on topics about birth and postpartum. You’d share a great resource, your page fans would like, comment and share, and your number of likes would grow…
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Creating Passive Income for Doulas
One of the topics that often comes up when talking business with birth and postpartum pros is the challenge of having income streams tied to billable hours. In order to increase income to a sustainable level it is common to see birth workers adding on…
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Online Links for your Doula Website
Getting links for your birth or postpartum website is a key component of your SEO strategy. Along with of course local listings on the websites of other local practitioners such as the midwifery clinic or chiropractic office, you can set up national or international level…
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Vaginal Steaming and SEO
It would appear that a new trend has emerged in the birth industry! While doing search engine optimization for a client’s website I found a striking result in the Google keyword tool. It’s pretty crazy. Between December 2014 and January 2105 searches on Google for…
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Your Doula Website is Your Office
If you’re a doula, chances are you don’t rent office space where you can meet with clients. While the majority of midwives, and massage therapists, childbirth educators, and prenatal yoga teachers do have spaces they can call their own, or at least share with other…
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Be Prepared: Questions for the Doula Interview
Given that the average doula interview lasts roughly an hour, it is pretty amazing how much ground we can cover in that time. While some clients do sit down with a list of “questions for your doula interview” they have printed from a pregnancy blog, most…
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Blogging 101: Tips for Birth Pros
I’m going to start this post with a bit of advice that is perhaps a bit unexpected: If you are only writing a blog because you feel like you should, but you don’t actually enjoy it, then don’t do a blog! A blog is not…
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Six Good Reasons to List your Fees on your Doula Website
I’m amazed what a hot topic this question is on many online support forums. Over and over again I see the question posted – “Should I list my fees on my website?” As a website designer and developer, a lot of my clients share this…
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Considering Wix for your Birth Practice Website?
Looking for a simple, attractive Website Builder? I’ll start this post by acknowledging that you’ve probably had a few dear doula friends tell you how much they love Wix. A lot of their reasons are really solid and good; it is indeed very easy to…
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My First Real Birth Business Website
This is the story of the first professional website for my birth practice, and how it allowed me to double my childbirth education and doula practice. Ok, to be fair to my brother, I did have one website before this one. He built it for…
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