funeral homes
We learned of an upcoming webinar that will feature Death Care experts Ryan Thogmartin and John Heald. Legacy.com’s Heald will be joined by Connecting Directors’ Thogmartin and they will discuss how to unwrap the features of Legacy.com for your funeral home. Among other things you can expect to learn you will learn:…
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Back when I was a child there was a soap opera daily on television that carried the slogan, “Like sands through an hourglass, so go the Days of our Lives”. I thought of that today when researching an article about demographic movements and how they may affect funeral homes in the future. .…
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The business news last week was centered on the Producer’s Price Index (PPI) rising 0.6% in the month February, which equates to an annual 7.2% inflationary rate. That reading, after being lower and even negative for a couple of months prior, has caused many pundits to opine that getting rid of inflation in…
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For the first time that I can remember, the Cremation Association of North America’s (CANA) Peer Support online meeting is asking all funeral workers to invite their spouse for tomorrow night’s group get-together. According to a recent press release from CANA, here’s why: “A funeral professional may be called upon as an…
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Friday was March 15 or the “Ides of March”. And, it appears that Friday, March 15, 2024, was a better day for funeral service than Friday, March 15, 44 BC was for Julius Caesar. Funeral service has been hit with a lot of bad publicity lately about certain funeral providers not always…
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Back in 2017 when I served on the board of the University of Minnesota I had a hand in the hiring of new Head Football Coach P.J. Fleck. Coach Fleck is still there and has had some success coaching in the Big Ten. Outside of the improvement of our team, I have…
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Did you remember to “Spring Forward” this past weekend? If you forgot, you are probably running a little late or showing up late for work today. Daylight Savings Time has been a small controversy for years with groups, from time to time, wanting to do away with it. In the spirit…
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Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), a publicly-held funeral home and cemetery operator reported their 2023 4th Quarter and 2023 Full-Year financial results last week. In those results, which you can see here, the company reported revenues for both the 4th Quarter and Full-Year of 2023 increasing from the comparable quarter and year. They…
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There is an old saying that goes, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink”. I think that the meaning of that phrase, in human terms is something like this, “You can tell a person the situation, but you cannot make them act on it”. In my…
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American funeral home and cemetery operator Carriage Services recently shared the results of their 4th Quarter and Year-End financials with the public. In doing so, and in spite of a continuing COVID “pull forward” impact resulting in modest declines in funeral contract volume experienced during the year, the company reported total 2023 revenues 3.3%…
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