Business

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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Traditions. . . .it’s good to remember them

By Funeral Director Daily / January 21, 2022 /

I enjoy learning.   I know that there is an awful lot left to learn by me in my lifetime.  And, it goes without saying that I love to learn more and more about the funeral profession because it was the profession that I earned my living in.  I’ve also found out that sometimes I learn…

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Canada’s Ontario province pulls out the stops to help funeral home staff shortages

By Funeral Director Daily / January 19, 2022 /

This article and video news story from CTV Canada explains that because of a chronic shortage of death care workers coupled with an increased number of deaths due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bereavement Authority of Ontario (BAO) “is calling retirees into service to fill out vacancies and for the first time, it’s allowing college…

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Would a four-day work week impact funeral service?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 17, 2022 /

I’m not one to get too excited over talk. . . .but, I’m also a realist who believes that where there is smoke, there is fire.  And, it appears that the trend in America will not go to a longer work week. . . so, over time I’m guessing that we get to a shorter…

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Funeral directors, employee shortages, and death care license requirements

By Funeral Director Daily / January 12, 2022 /

Today we bring you this interesting article from the Iowa Capital Dispatch concerning a potential funeral director who believed he needed a waiver to receive his Iowa Funeral Directors License.  One of the requirements for licensure by the Iowa Board of Mortuary Science is that the applicant has completed 60 college credit hours and maintained…

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What we are hearing on the Street. .. . and from some other sources

By Funeral Director Daily / January 7, 2022 /

So, we are one week into the new year of 2022.  There are a few things that have been predicted since the new Presidential administration came into office last January, especially after the inflationary times that started last Spring. One of the the predicted things we heard about was that a new administration may eventually…

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It seems that everybody wants your (funeral home’s) obituaries

By Funeral Director Daily / January 6, 2022 /

I’ve been out of owning and managing my own funeral home for eight years now.  Funeral Director Daily keeps me involved with all that is going on in the profession, but sometimes the research I do makes me think I’ve become a little naive to some of the “dog eat dog” competition that is out…

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Do you have the “Long View” in customer acquisition?

By Funeral Director Daily / January 5, 2022 /

Every day funeral directors and funeral home owners work hard and diligently in taking care of the families that they are entrusted to serve.  Sometimes it is a matter of just finishing with one family when the phone rings again and the funeral director/funeral home owner starts the cycle all over again. As your business…

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