I want to commend anyone who is dedicated to remembering to manually back up your computer files at least once a month. If you’ve ever had a computer die on you and lost important data, you know now how important it is to make regular backups.

Childbirth professionals build a library of resources from which to offer information to clients. Elizabeth Pantley offers a free suite of handouts that are great to give clients in the postpartum period. Learn how to get your set of articles today.

Joy Jones is an RN who created a very comprehensive website dedicated to the Brewer Pregnancy Diet. It not only has a great deal of information and links to many more resources, it also maintains a referral list of professionals who support the Brewer’s Diet.

So you want to be a doula. A Savvy one at that. I’d like to offer you 5 tips to help you be taken seriously as a business owner:

In an effort to provide a forum for women to provide much-needed consumer feedback about OB/Gyns, midwives, hospitals and birth center,the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) unveiled their national rollout of the Birth Survey, an online survey to collect information from women who have had a baby within the last three years.

The Team 100 is a list of 100 people with whom you have a professional relationship. These can be fellow colleagues in your field, other birth professionals, and any business owners who you would like to refer your clients to, and who could reciprocate the favor by sending clients your way.

One of the best ways to market yourself is by having a website. If you are just starting your business and don’t have web design experience to do it yourself or lack the capital to pay someone to create your site, there are free services available for you to create your own professional website. The [...]

How do you find YOUR prospects? If you’re like many solopreneurs, very often your prospects find you. That means that somewhere somehow, someone is talking about you. That someone could be one of your clients, a colleague, or even your web site.

In the marketing business, we call that buzz about us “word of mouth” (WOM) and that’s what we all want because the more there are folks saying good things about us, the less we have to do ourselves.

But what if people AREN’T talking about us? What do we do then?

Are you just getting started and want some guidance about business tax requirements, record keeping requirements, and more? The Internal Revenue Service offers online video classes for small business owners.

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.