Funeral Director Daily
Writing this blog I hear from all kinds of people. Lately I’ve heard from funeral home owners/employers who tell me it is difficult to find qualified funeral directors to work for them in this day and age. I also hear from employed funeral directors who are down on the profession, or simply their current owner,…
I recently read an article from the Watertown (South Dakota) Public Opinion newspaper and it reminded me of how we marketed our funeral home in the days prior to internet and digital marketing. We always looked for anywhere where we would have a chance to visit with people — especially on a one-on-one basis —…
Throughout my entire career in a small community, the funeral homes and the cemeteries helped each other out. We had somewhat of a mutual dependence on each other that helped us both. For instance, when our funeral home served a family we would always suggest earth burial or entombment for the full body casketed funeral…
Over the last 30 days our most read articles have come from a variety of issues in death care. . . acquisitions, the growth of urban funeral homes, casket sales data, funeral poverty and the advent of non-profit funeral homes, and a look at what may be coming next for death care in North America. …
Next Monday residents of the United States will celebrate President’s Day. Just so you know, when I was young, and until changed by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1971, this day was known as Washington’s Birthday holiday since 1879 and celebrated on President George Washington’s birthday, February 22. When I was young, many states…
Funeral service company Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest owner of funeral homes in North America announced their 4th Quarter 2021 and 2021 Year-end results earlier this week. You can see a press release of the entire announcement here. Here’s how SCI’s CEO Thomas Ryan summed up the 4th Quarter of 2021 for the company,…
We’ve let a few things pile up on our desk and it was well time that we cleaned them out and let you know what is else in going on in Death Care and how you can stay involved and learn even more. Here’s some information on topics of interest including the Cremation Association of…
We expected 2022 to be a year of mergers and acquisitions in the funeral home business. However, we are also quickly learning that the marriages of companies will not be confined to those in the funeral home business, but in death care suppliers as well. Last month we reported on Wilbert’s acquisition of Memorial Monument…
Since I started this blog in 2017 and continuously look for interesting topics for the readers, I’ve come to anticipate the annual research paper from Sun Life entitled the Sun Life Cost of Dying Report. While it comes out of Great Britain it is a great resource for me and what I have come to…
I’m a licensed health and life insurance agent. I received my license and started a Preneed Funeral insurance agency back when Minnesota first allowed funeral directors to do so in the 1990’s. It was a boon to our business as we could now write Preneed policies and receive a commission on them. Our funeral home…
