Funeral Director Daily
According to the company website of Carriage Services they operate 23 locations in the state of Florida. It appears that as of last week when we received this press release from Carriage Services that they are adding two more funeral homes to that total. According to that press release Carriage Services has acquired the…
Trying to be a “BTC” (Business to Consumer) casket company has been tried before and even with great effort the cause was difficult. However, the people at Titan Casket must relate to the Curtis Mayfield tune “Keep on Keeping On” as they seem to be moving one step forward all the time and growing…
The last 30 day period has been one of the best, in terms of page views, in Funeral Director Daily’s history. As I write this on Wednesday afternoon Funeral Director Daily has compiled 20,085 page views over the latest rolling 30-day period. That more than likely puts us as the #1 read daily Death…
Where people are living has an incredible affect on the number of families a local funeral provider will serve in a given time period. Today’s article will introduce you to some graphics and articles about how demographics are shifting in the United States. And, it is really important to know these demographic shifts if…
I operated my funeral home from 1980 to 2013 and in that time period we increased prices every year. I always looked for an average of about 3% but was able to increase my cremation prices more than that as cremation was growing in popularity. And, it seemed that our price increases also…
According to this issue of the Indianapolis Star an Indiana court of appeals ruled in late August that the State of Indiana “violated the First Amendment rights of a Fort Wayne “death doula” after it required her to obtain a funeral director license to provide end-of-life transition services”. Indiana state (mortuary)…
Dwight Thompson, a seasoned social worker, psychotherapist, and former funeral director with more than 20 years of experience in mental health and grief care will highlight the monthly interactive Peer Support meeting for September. The online peer support meeting for funeral service workers sponsored by the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) will…
I read a lot of different articles. Recently I read an article about investing that contrasted “Dividend Investing” and “Growth Investing”. The article was very interesting but it also made me think about my time as a funeral home owner and how I managed the profits, or cash-flow, of the business. In…
It’s been pretty easy to recognize that the management team that replaced founder and long-time CEO Melvin Payne at Carriage Services has been building the foundations of the business in order to begin once again making acquisitions for growth. That has probably been a necessary strategy but it also was noted by some investors…
The beginning of a recent article on the ASD Blog, authored by Jessica Farren, had a quote without, to my knowledge, an author’s acknowledgement. I will post it here with no acknowledgement but do believe it captures the essence of America’s funeral directors: “Deathcare professionals are not heroes because they are…
