How to follow up clients? As an agency owner I have the privilege of hearing the odd customer complaint. Admittedly we don’t get very many (thankfully!), but when we do one of the comments I hear is that the doula didn’t follow-up as promised. Types of follow-up In our last post we discussed the consultation
Creating Doula Package Pricing our Doula Packages One of the most common questions I get asked in doula training is how much to charge and how to create doula packages. Like a lot of life’s big questions, there isn’t really one simple answer, but I’ve put together some thoughts for you to consider here. The
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Rocking the Consultation How to rock a consultation (interview) When I train a new group of doulas we always spend a fair bit of time on discussing consulations (many people call them interviews). This is where a potential client has expressed an interest in having you as a doula and you go meet with them
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Getting our first few clients Over the past few years there has been so much talk about whether to charge for our first few clients after we’ve completed our training. My personal views see both sides of this argument. I say if you can charge for your first few clients, please DO! BUT I see
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Overcoming Three-Year Itch Written by Stefanie Antunes, originally published as a Featured Story in the International Doula, Volume 17, Issue 2 (2010) Every year, thousands of doulas, childbirth educators and midwives leave the profession. While many may leave for family or financial reasons, a great number leave due to a feeling of unease. Some describe it as feeling overwhelmed, while
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What to do when a partner doesn’t want to be involved? I got a call from a new doula recently after one of her first few births (story used with permission). She mentioned she’d done two births so far and both had been quite different from each other and wanted to debrief them. In one
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On the 11th day of doula school my trainer gave to me…. Thoughts on the Future of the Doula Profession I follow a lot of Facebook doula groups and one of the comments I see regularly is something to the effect of ‘whether it’s possible to be a doula as a ‘real’ profession’. Or
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