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Boosting Your Funeral Home’s Online Presence: An Action Plan for Content That Engages and Builds Trust In today’s digital world, a funeral home website is far more than a static brochure. It’s the front door of your business for many families — the first place they turn when they need information, reassurance and…
I’ ve realized that over my lifetime I’ve had a never-ending compulsion to know what is happening in the world around me. In my elementary school days our family subscribed to both the morning edition and the afternoon edition of the Minneapolis newspapers. I can remember reading the sports section — that’s all that…
According to the Milestone Funeral Partners website, which you can access here, and information placed on social media, the Maine-based funeral home operator and consolidator added four funeral home businesses to their number in the last couple of months. Announced on August 8 on the company website was information about the acquisition of the…
The question posed in the headline is interesting. What is happening in Great Britain may be a precursor of what could happen in North America about the billing amount to consumers for the growing trend of Direct Cremations. A recent 2025 survey of 200 funeral directors and 6,000 adults showed that Direct Cremations…
It always seems to me that when the calendar turns to October I’m in for reacquainting with many of my friends in funeral service and meeting many new ones. I’m guessing that is because the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) annual convention rolls around in that time period and I also look for…
Maybe there is something to the ongoing prediction that a whole lot of funeral homes will be changing hands in the next 3 to 5 years. Barely after we were able to get a press release from Park Lawn Corporation out about a funeral home/cemetery expansion in New Mexico we received this press…
According to this press release from Park Lawn Corporation, the funeral home and cemetery consolidator added what they call their Taos Memorial Gardens adjacent to their existing DeVargas Funeral Home in Taos, New Mexico. In a prepared statement from the press release Park Lawn Corporation Chief Executive Officer Jennifer W. Hay made this…
This article from Yahoo Finance will inform you that the major indexes of the American stock market all closed at record highs last Friday. During the same week the 3rd Quarter of the year closed and the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) reported a close that indicated a 3.60% increase for…
Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm that provides a wide range of products and services, including investment banking, wealth management, consumer banking, and brokerage services, recently made this comment in an article, “Life insurance companies have rapidly evolved into influential players in the credit markets. Their growing footprint is not merely a function…
Just the other morning I read two articles from Yahoo Finance which showed a couple of trends happening in American society. The first trend can be read about in this article titled “There are more Americans out of work than their are jobs open for the first time since 2021″. And the…
