Funeral Director Daily

Vale Cemetery receives ACE Award

By Funeral Director Daily / December 22, 2020 /

Vale Cemetery of Schenectady, New York, was recently given the American Cemetery Excellence Award (ACE Award) as presented by American Cemetery and Cremation magazine.  While the magazine calls it the ACE Award, I like to just refer to it as the “Cemetery of the Year” award because the magazine awards only one cemetery annually. According…

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Tukios acquires Aftercare.com

By Funeral Director Daily / December 21, 2020 /

Later in this article you can read a press release issued last week that announced the acquisition of Aftercare.com by Tukios.  Tukios is a major player in the video memorial creation software used, by Tukios count, over 5000 funeral homes. In our opinion, at Funeral Director Daily, companies with reach like Tukios, are smart to…

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Funeral photos back in vogue. . can you cash in on the trend

By Funeral Director Daily / December 21, 2020 /

My father died 43 years ago.  I was a teenager.  He was 58 years old and a prominent business man in his small community.  I have no photos of the large event that was his visitation and funeral.  I’ve got a newspaper article and two images inside my head. . . one image is that…

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Funeral Nation TV, stock market thoughts, and advertising

By Funeral Director Daily / December 18, 2020 /

As we head into the week before the Christmas Holiday I reprise my role as a guest of hosts Jeff Harbeson and Ryan Thogmartin on their Funeral Nation program. . . this time Episode #210.  The hosts have me back quarterly to discuss death care companies in the public stock markets. . . where I…

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Is your funeral home Zooming in or zooming out of consumer preference

By Funeral Director Daily / December 17, 2020 /

Probably more so than I can ever remember, funeral directors, funeral homes, and the North American funeral is being written about in 2020.  And, in general, the topics seem to be all related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  It seems to me that the topics are funeral homes being extremely busy, families dealing with death without…

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Financial strategies with capital investments

By Funeral Director Daily / December 16, 2020 /

A couple of weeks ago Funeral Director Daily did a couple of articles dealing with working on an operating budget for funeral homes.  We looked at both the income and the expense sides and told you of how we budgeted over the years for profit. . . .even if our call numbers came in lower…

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The perception of our integrity

By Funeral Director Daily / December 15, 2020 /

“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio”.  Those were the lyrics of the Simon and Garfunkel song “Mrs. Robinson” released in 1968.  The country was in the summer of a presidential election and was mired in a controversial war in Viet Nam at the time.  The lyrics harkened back to a simple time in America. I…

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News you can use: PPE procurement, CEU’s, the BRAVE act. . . and more

By Funeral Director Daily / December 14, 2020 /

In today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily you will find that most of our linked stories deal with funeral homes and their handling of the COVID-19 situation.  We are also taking today to catch up with some items that you should be aware of in terms of PPE procurement, a webinar brought to us…

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Will we see shifts in funeral home employment post-pandemic?

By Funeral Director Daily / December 14, 2020 /

I’ll tell you right away that this is one of those articles I write that you probably won’t get any answers from.  As a matter of fact, I hope you go away from today’s article asking questions and thinking about the future.  It’s the kind of article that I like writing, though . . .…

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Renew your commitment

By Funeral Director Daily / December 11, 2020 /

Funeral directors are interesting creatures.  We live to serve. . . . that doesn’t happen in every profession. I told my wife the other day as we live in this pandemic world every body seems to have all the answers.  Politicians are acting as scientists, scientists are acting like politicians, parents know more than the…

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