Childbirth professionals can add another dimension to their practice and to their experiences serving women during pregnancy and postpartum by becoming more familiar with hypnosis and encouraging their clients to consider the use of hypnosis during pregnancy and birth.

There are several ways to keep track of your client’s records. Today I’ll share what I do. It’s not necessarily the “right” way, but it’s a way that I have found works best for me and has evolved over the two years I’ve worked as a doula.

For the first five years, my doula business finances were a mess! I was getting plenty of births, but I had no idea if I was making a profit, how much, and when it came to the end of the year, figuring out my expenses for tax time was just awful!

And then I stumbled on a product that has solved all most of my accounting problems. It’s called the “File-it!” calendar, and I’ve used it for the last five years with great success.

In the first two parts of this three-part article on increasing your potential income, we looked at how diversification is the key to earning more money. Offering more products will improve your ability to make money. Those extra products should be of two types: additional stand-alone products and value-added services that improve your existing products.

In my previous article examining how you can increase your earning potential, we examined the importance of diversifying our product offerings. In this article, we will look at the two different types of product offerings you can add to your doula business to increase profits.

Welcome to the first of a three-part series on increasing your earning potential. In this series, we will look at specific things you can do to improve your bottom line and bring more money into your birth business.

Tracy from Best Doulas sells a wonderful teaching aid called a cervical dilation chart. It is simply 10 pieces of foam with circles cut out for each centimeter of dilation, and they are stored on a ring. It is such a useful tool for childbirth classes and for use with birth doula clients.