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The case for raising full-service charges

By Funeral Director Daily / February 10, 2022 /

In the last couple of issues of NFDA’s Memorial Business Journal, author and editor Edward Defort, has introduced us to funeral director, owner, and entrepreneur David Hernandez.  Hernandez has funeral service operations in New Jersey, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.  And, he’s a man after my own heart because he understands that a successful funeral “business”…

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Is there something to learn from other industries

By Funeral Director Daily / February 9, 2022 /

There is no doubt that the Covid-19 pandemic has greatly influenced and impacted the death care industry over the past two years.  In general, there has been more deaths and less public services of such deaths.  One might argue, especially in larger markets, that the increased number of deaths has more than made up in…

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New Hampshire “Sustainable Funeral” group working to change state’s embalming law

By Funeral Director Daily / February 7, 2022 /

If you follow the trends in death care you will notice that not only increased cremation continues to happen, but so does interest in alkaline hydrolysis, recomposition, and other “green burial” practices.  According to this article, in New Hampshire 18-year old Anya Nicoll and state legislator Jerry Knirk are working towards changing a 1971 state…

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The Arrangement and Preneed Conferences

By Funeral Director Daily / February 4, 2022 /

I’ve been out of active funeral directing for the past eight years.  And, I won’t apologize for it, but I’m a traditionalist when it comes to funeral service.  That means I still believe in the value of the public acknowledgement of death, the tradition of a service or celebration of life, and the idea of…

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Cremation provider launched consumer “Pay what you Want” price for January

By Funeral Director Daily / February 3, 2022 /

How would your funeral home come out in terms of profitability if you advertised a pricing method billed as “Pay what you want”?  Now, Caledonia Cremation is not your normal “Mom and Pop” funeral/cremation shop, but their January promotion is unique. Here’s what they say on their promotional website which you can access here: “Everyone…

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Seventy-Five years since the Capone burial

By Funeral Director Daily / February 2, 2022 /

I recently finished Bill O’Reilly’s book “Killing the Mob”.  It is one of about a dozen books in a series by O’Reilly all with the “Killing” titles. I’ve learned that “Killing” is just the title series and the books are really about the history of people, movements, and time periods. Of the books I’ve read…

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A contemporary funeral home for Urban life

By Funeral Director Daily / January 31, 2022 /

It’s been called a “hipster” funeral home.  That’s at least what one person labeled Brooklyn, New York’s new contemporary funeral home, Sparrow.  Erica Hill, a co-owner of Sparrow says this of comments like that, “Yes, we look different than what you expect a funeral home to be, but that’s okay.” According to this article in…

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The next British invasion

By Funeral Director Daily / January 28, 2022 /

Americans have been influenced by the Brits for centuries.  In the pre-Revolutionary day the colonists enjoyed the tea imported from the East India Tea Company of England until John Hancock’s merchant shop found a way to circumvent the tax on such by buying tea from a Dutch company.  Those purchases led to the Boston Tea…

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How do you collect cash and control receivables

By Funeral Director Daily / January 26, 2022 /

I came across this article entitled “Lending USA introduces FastScreen, a New Tool for Pre-Loan Qualification for Funeral Home Merchants” and it reminded me of the struggles I had over the years about implementation of tougher credit policies on client families.  The age old “push-pull” credit decision is that you don’t want to make it…

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Covid and parental death

By Funeral Director Daily / January 25, 2022 /

At Funeral Director Daily we cover a lot of topics.  Many, or even most of our articles, deal with the financial operation of a business to help those in the business of death care make the choices they need to make as they move forward.  We also publish articles about the preneed industry and articles…

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