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Please be honest and let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions to make anything better.
Waiting with you
Also, if someone is willing to fill out the contact me form located here at Suzanne DeSelms, birth doula just so I can make sure it works. Its OK to make up answers, though I'd prefer if you let me know who you are so I ( Read more... )
Waiting with you
Also, if someone is willing to fill out the contact me form located here at Suzanne DeSelms, birth doula just so I can make sure it works. Its OK to make up answers, though I'd prefer if you let me know who you are so I ( Read more... )
One thing I thought of was to amend the testimonials to show what kind of birth they were (with mama's permission) so like mine would say "hospital VBAC" - I make that suggestion because potential families would see how you are experienced because sometimes I think people think that a doula doesn't do hospital birth or medicated. I hope that makes sense. Or if it makes sense to just add a sentence to my testimonial to say that I was having my second baby, a VBAC in the hospital, that would do the trick without it looking so impersonal.
As your doula, I will not be waiting on you, I will be waiting with you, until your baby decides that the time is right to be born.
I really love how you wrote that. I think you'll really connect with families that are sensitive to time constraints and your patience really is genuine.
Another thought was if you are only doing birth doula work, do you have any post partum doulas that you recommend and if so, maybe consider adding that info to your site or just saying you can help network for those resources? Also, who is your backup for just in case. You may have your reasonings for not writing that on your site but those were the other things I was thinking of when looking at your site.
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thank you so much for your compliment on my writing! being on-call for your birth is what inspired the Waiting with you business name.
i love your idea of adding the birth facts with the testimonials :-) i will get right on that.
also, so far it seems to be split on the photo that's there. some people like it and others want a mother/baby/birth specific one.
i think i am going to leave it for now until i have a client that is ok with having her photo used for my website. i just don't like the idea of using a generic stockphoto of someone i've never met.
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I think the birth facts make a nice addition. Clients will be able to see how you're experienced in all sorts of different settings and situations. I still have a feeling that VBAC will be a niche for you.
I have some pics of Jr and I together right after birth (all SFW) if you want me to email some over. No obligation to use any of them but if it's something you're interested in, I'd be ok with it. You were an integral part of Jr's birthday (and the weeks leading up to it) and anything I can do to help would be awesome.
I am sad though, we never got one of you holding him. I am still sad that we didn't just grab the camera. Zach didn't think I'd be far along to be admitted (hence the overwhelming feeling of justification when they told me I was an 8cm with bulging waters!) and he didn't want to grab the camera from the car. Sometime soon we'll have to meet up so I can get a picture of you and Jr together :)
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you mentioned wanting to help, would you be willing to post a link to www.waitingwithyou.com on your lj, possibly not friends-locked? and/or on your fb? its partly for referals, but also partly for increasing pagerank with google, so when someone googles Everett doula or whatever, my page has a chance of coming up.
if you want, you could send the photos first, i could put them up with your testimonial, and then you could link directly to your story/photo page.
but if you don't want to, its totally fine. no pressure. let me know what you think. thanks :-)
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lame-o.
or, if you know how to do hyperlinks, you could do it that way, with the text being my name or business name or whatever you want that you feel is relavant (not just "click here")
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Good idea on me posting to FB and LJ. I like to network and if I find a service that is valuable to me, the best thing to do is to tell other people. Word of mouth business is so valuable. It's cool we have some friends in common because that's helps with word of mouth. It made me feel like I had a couple of good references on you before we even met, heck before we talked about working together.
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do you want his name included or not? if yes, please write it out for me the way you would want it put.
http://www.waitingwithyou.com/testimonials.html
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PS: I like the testimonials page too!
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of course, i think that if someone else wanted to say i rock, that's always allowed ;-)
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