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Comment by Little Blessings Adoption Srvcs on November 8, 2010 at 12:58pm

Great pictures with fun captions are for sure key! The colors and design you choose for your profile is also very important. You need to break up your text into small paragraphs and do headers on them so an expectant mother can glance through your profile and pick and choose quickly and easily what she feels is most important to her. i.e. - Why You Are Choosing Adoption, Work Schedule, etc. I don't think the problem is telling too much now and not having anything to speak about later. Going through it twice myself, there will always be things to talk about. :) However, if you have too much text, it may seem overwhelming and boring to a reader. The goal is to get them interested right off the bat with colors, design and photos. Keep them interested with your captions and sub-sections, and then if they like those, they will continue to read through the profile and hopefully select your family! :) Best wishes to you in your adoption pursuit! If I can assist you further, please feel free to contact me.

Comment by Cathryn and Brent on November 8, 2010 at 11:01am

Daniel, I do agree. Being an impatient reader myself I tend to look at headings, photos and skim the rest. It's always a good idea to "leave em wanting more". Good luck! - Cathryn

Comment by Daniel Welz on November 8, 2010 at 10:47am

So my wife and I have been asked by our facilitator to redesign our profile. Apparently, she was noticing that E-Moms were just glazed over reviewing profiles that have a lot of text. So we have greatly reduced the amount of text in our letter and increased the pictures and their size. The feedback was that if you tell your life story, there will be nothing to talk about when you potentially meet.

Does anyone agree with this statement? I just want to make sure we are helping and not hurting. Thanks!

Comment by Cathryn and Brent on November 8, 2010 at 10:16am

Has anyone ever gotten a response from leaving pass along cards somewhere?

Comment by Little Blessings Adoption Srvcs on August 31, 2010 at 6:31am

Creating an adoption profile can be difficult for some families. Deciding what to say to a birthmother/birthfather, what photos to choose of your family and how to lay it all out so your story comes to life on paper can be overwhelming. I am an adoptive mother of two through newborn domestic adoption and my husband and I had great success with our own personal profile - matched 3 times in less than a month with our son, and another 3 times with our daughter, even when we were gender specific. I've been blessed to help many families with their adoption process including their profile. I suggest writing from your heart, as if you are writing a letter to a long lost friend updating her on your life. Use photos that show who you are and what you like to do, not just posed photos. Many times families ignore some of the best photos they have. Try to look at it from a point of view that you do not know anything about you. Be honest and expand enough on your thoughts so birthparents can connect with you. I truly wish you all the best! :)

Comment by Rebecca Palomino on October 18, 2009 at 3:49pm

My hubby is due to return from Iraq for a 14 day stay, any ideas on nice pics we can take for a PBM to see?

Comment by Rebecca Palomino on September 12, 2009 at 7:19pm

I started taking more pics of my kids and such but I need my hubby back from Iraq. With those few days we have together I hope we can take lots of photos together. Thank you for the idea. I like that. Thanks. I will look around. I will look at that site.

Comment by Savannah on September 12, 2009 at 7:24am

Rebecca, we did our pass along cards at www.spacesforfaces.com. We got an incredible deal! It was 500 cards for I think $35. I talked to a local printer and they said they would have done the SAME card SAME amount for $80.
I agree with the pictures. Within a few days of having our paper profile done I had new pictures I wish I could have put in. Adoption has made us take a TON more pictures.

Comment by Rebecca Palomino on September 12, 2009 at 5:17am

Good Ideah savannah. So I can do the business cards and then hand out profiles if I see someone personally? I wanted to get a 10-20 page portfolio done with the pictures from when my husband comes back in November, we have a trip to Puerto Planned, NC Zoo, Thanksgiving and a BBQ. I hope that will be enough. Pictures of large extended family will be in there and stuff. We dont' have any up to date photos of anything if they aren't digital. Those I deleted by accident. That is why I am not crazy about that camera but still nice tohave. Please let me know what you think!

Comment by Savannah on September 11, 2009 at 9:09pm

Rebecca, what kind of profile? I have business cards that I try to leave EVERYWHERE. Any billboard I pass, gas pumps, tables. And I always try to leave two. If you have just a flyer I would do the same thing. My theory is even if they don't choose us, maybe I can help people realize that adoption is an option and then hopefully someone somewhere gets a baby from my efforts.

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