Favorite Website Tools
Discover the best tools and resources to support your website and business as a doula or midwife. Here are some of my top recommendations as the Website Doula.
The 4 best email marketing platforms for doulas: Flodesk, Kit, Mailerlite & Active Campaign
The best email marketing platforms for doulas offer you the features you need: effective automations to nurture potential clients, excellent deliverability, and easy to use – while still within your budget! Let’s compare popular email marketing tools for doulas: Flodesk, Kit, ActiveCampaign, and MailerLite. I’ll help you assess which email marketing tool actually fits your…
Thrivecart Review for Doulas and Midwives
I’d like to introduce you to Thrivecart, the best shopping cart tool out there. While there are loads of benefits, at the heart of are these two simple facts: Here’s what you need to know about choosing ThriveCart for online sales as a health and wellness business owner: What is ThriveCart used for? Who is…
Your Google Business Profile: A Guide for Doulas. Updated for 2025!
Do you have a Google Business Profile for your birth or postpartum business yet? If you are a doula, lactation consultant, newborn care specialist, placenta encapsulation specialist, childbirth educator serving local clients and you don’t yet have a FREE Google profile you’re missing out! I know some of you are already ROCKING your profiles with…
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 your profession is mandated to follow HIPAA guidelines, you of…
Google Workspace: The Best Email Solution for Doulas
A surprisingly complex topic that keeps coming up with my doula web design clients is email. How do I create a domain-based email with Google Workspace, or should I just use Gmail? Can I get a free email? How many email accounts can I have? What should my email address be? Now, I am not…
Website Hosting and Domain Registration for Wellness Websites
If you are a wellness or holistic practitioner, such as a doula, chiropractor, midwife, acupuncturist or therapist, you are likely looking for a website host that will provide great tech support, not oversell you on hosting packages you don’t need, and that will keep your website safe & sound. So many wellness practitioners I meet…
On Birth Nerds and Passwords
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 and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Now, when are talking…
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 use, and has some beautiful templates to choose from. I get…
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Hi, I'm Sarah Juliusson, also known as The Website Doula. As a doula or midwife you are forever in search of new clients, even with a base of loyal past clients who adore you. Having a website that actually works for you is essential.
With 34+ years in the birth world, I have devoted the past 15+ years as a web designer & strategist for birth workers (birth and postpartum doulas, midwives, agencies, birth centers & more). Here you will find website strategy audit packages, SEO plans, DIY tools & courses, and plenty of free resources. You're in the right place.