Grow your breastfeeding business by finding new clients near you

Factors including your location, service offerings, experience, credentials, and pricing all play a role in how much business you will get through Meela. Your success depends on the effort you put into the platform, as well as your abilities to meet potential clients’ needs.

Your ability to create a winning profile—by requesting reviews from former clients and verifying your services—will drastically increase your number of direct inquiries and will improve your chances of getting hired when proactively reaching out to parents.

Learn how to make the most out of Meela

Every Meela job post includes details that will help you determine if your practice is a good fit for the parent’s needs. Each job post will also indicate how many pros have already reached out to the parent. While being among the first four pros to reach out typically gives you a better chance of being hired, you should still reach out if you are uniquely qualified to meet the parent’s needs.

When reaching out via Meela job posts, a strong profile—including positive reviews from former clients—and verifying your services will significantly improve your chance of getting hired.

Learn how to make the most out of Meela

Meela is simply a platform to help you grow and manage your business. Once you connect with a client through Meela, you are responsible for managing the relationship with that client. Whether that means having a client sign your doula contract or complete an intake form for a lactation visit, you have the flexibility to work with and support your clients the way you always do. You have full control over the pricing and payment plans you offer your clients.

We provide tools—including payments and secure messaging—to streamline and organize the process of communicating and billing your clients. You are not required to use these tools, but they are strongly encouraged, given our platform’s security and convenience.

Learn how to make the most out of Meela

While you are not required to use Meela payments, we strongly encourage all professionals to transact with their clients through Meela, given our platform’s security and convenience. We use the secure platform Stripe to process all payments.

Many parents use Meela to hire multiple pros for a variety of services throughout their pregnancy, labor, and postpartum period. As a result, parents also use Meela’s easy-to-use platform to stay organized, making it more convenient for them to communicate with pros and quickly pay invoices.

Learn how to make the most out of Meela

Yes. Many pros who join Meela already have established clients but would like to take advantage of our tools, including secure messaging, streamlined payments, and collaborative birth planning.

It’s free to invite and manage your existing clients on Meela. Simply email them an invite via your dashboard, and your clients will receive directions on how to add you as their pro.

Please note that while there is no fee to use our tools, service and credit card fees still apply to all payments made through Meela.

Learn how to make the most out of Meela