Funeral Director Daily
Just as you would take an inventory of your physical health at least once a year, I also think it is imperative that you take a look at your business’ health at least that often. And, while we meet with our bankers and accountants to take a deep look in the financial health of our…
When you read this it will already be May 2022 and we will be two-thirds of the way into the 2nd Quarter of most company’s 2022 business year. As a matter of fact, the reports of January thru March have already started to roll out as Matthews International provided us information on the January thru…
I’ve said in this forum, while Natural Organic Reduction (what some call human composting) is not for me. . . as an entrepreneur I’m somewhat in awe of how Katrina Spade moved the idea for human disposition from idea to a legal process of disposition. Spade not only had to prove that the concept worked…
Over last weekend while doing some research I stumbled across this article on Matthews International. As you may know Matthews is the parent company of Aurora Caskets and Matthews Cremation. What you maybe don’t know is that they are a world-wide conglomerate who is making a big bet on the electric car market with a…
For a long-time I’ve been a believer in TOMA — “Top of Mind Awareness” for funeral home brand building which can lead to market share building. “Top of Mind Awareness” is defined as one measure of how well a business brand ranks in the minds of the consumer. And, I’ve always felt that TOMA was…
Only a couple of weeks ago Funeral Director Daily published an article entitled “Is an Event Center in your business future”. I thought it was a fairly innocuous article about the growth of “event centers” and their potential as an off-site component of a retail death care business — both for direct cremation firms and…
According to this article from This is Money (Great Britain) the Safe Hands Plans funeral preneed fund “went under six weeks ago”. Taking information from an article in the Financial Mail on Sunday, it suggests that over 47,000 plan holders are left with the potential of zero balances in their trust funds that were supposed…
There is a new play out called “Cremation: The Play” and it is set to be live-streamed beginning tomorrow on Lemonade. It will also be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday. Cost to watch the live-stream is $20 and includes a Q & A following the production with the producers and cast. You can see information…
