Funeral Director Daily
I work with a couple of financial advisors on my investments. I do a lot of research on my own and then visit with the advisor(s) when making changes to my portfolio. Doing that research led me to read this article from Seeking Alpha (which may have a paywall) where the author suggested…
Back in 1982 when John Naisbitt’s bestselling book, Megatrends, was flying off the shelves (it was before Amazon so it wasn’t being ordered by mail) the book commented that Americans were “drowning in information but starved for knowledge”. As we get deeper and deeper into what Naisbitt coined “The Information Age” that thought process…
I recently read a blog post on the Funeral Directors Life (FDL) blog written by Todd Carlson, Executive Vice-President and Chief Sales officer at Funeral Directors Life. The article was titled “Three preneed trends your funeral home should know about” and I found it very informative and a good starting point in looking at…
I’m not a macro economist. I’m just a common sense business person who tries to square big numbers into more household like comparisons. When I look at last week’s analysis that the United States inflation rate is rising 3.4% in a year over year comparison I see that as a signal that our country’s…
There are a lot of companies in, and moving into, the funeral home acquisition sphere that has been going on for about seven decades. Ever since Robert Waltrip purchased his 2nd funeral home in Houston, Texas, and started building what became Service Corporation International in the 1960’s a lot of business people have emulated…
So today, September 11, 2026, marks the 25th anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks on America. For those of us who are baby boomers, that day is seared in our memory as are the days of the President John F. Kennedy assassination, the day that astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and…
I’ve said many times in the past few months that the evolving American economy provides great opportunities for cemeteries. I was recently notified that our friends at Letum Financial are helping to sponsor a free webinar to show cemeteries one way to unlock new revenue. Here’s what an electronic brochure says of this…
Endswell, the 2022 Death Care start-up that brands itself as “A modern funeral home, is expanding their services to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. And, it won’t be your mom and dad’s funeral home. According to this article in Chapelboro.com, the company has bought ground-floor space in a street-front condominium building where they plan to…
Recently I received a press release from Parting Stone, the solidified remains company, that enlightened me as to some of the reasons so many survivors continue to hold on to cremated remains in the home rather than pursue permanent placement for them. I’ve always thought that the main reason that families continue…
If you follow the financial markets you will notice a lot being said about the widening gap of consumer spending ability. It’s interesting to note that our most read story of the month also fell along that line with an article about how it appears that Everstory Partners has some ideas on how to…
