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Really good funeral directors are great to have working on your team. If you have a really good funeral director in your employ, how do you know it? Are there metrics that can be quantified to tell if you do have a really good funeral director on your team? If so, how do you get…
I’ve operated and managed a thriving funeral home. If you’ve been there and done it. . . you know it is 24/7/365. . . .not many days go by when you don’t worry about something. And, I’ve dealt with grieving family members, regulators, and the consumer movement too. When you operate a community funeral home,…
Over the history of successful products you will encounter many that the intended use for the product never developed into something big, but another use came into play, many times by accident, that worked out okay for the developers of the product. First, let’s take a quick look at some products that have became very…
Editor’s Note: I apologize for the tardiness of this article today. This post was scheduled to go out as usual at 4 am Eastern Time, but for some reason, technology failed us. Enjoy some thoughts to think about as we move into the weekend. My first trip to Europe in 1991 reminds me that I’m…
Canada’s privately owned funeral home and cemetery company, Arbor Memorial, was recently selected as a “Gold Standard Winner” for Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies award for the 4th straight year. The award is the country’s leading business award program recognizing entrepreneurial companies for the caliber of their management abilities and practices. You can see a press…
Remember when you were younger and wanted something. . . .but mom or dad said you could not have it? Did it make you more determined to want whatever that item was? Over the long holiday weekend I saw a couple of items in the news that made me think of that long lost feeling. …
As we move into the seventh month of the calendar year, we felt that it was a good time for a check up on the Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI). The DCI is a composite dollar amount of owning one share of stock in each of the seven public companies in the United…
On July 4, 1776, the 2nd Continental Congress of the 13 American colonies unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence announcing the colonies separation from Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonies reasons for wanting the separation. I love history, and especially American history. For part of the past year I have spent studying the writings…
I was somewhat amused as I watched this television news report from ABC News 11 in North Carolina. The story is entitled, “For the first time there are more cremations than burials in North Carolina: What is behind the change?” I wasn’t amused due to the story line, what somewhat amused me is the anchor…
New ideas come to the forefront in all industries from time to time. Some never get going, some ideas stagnate, but it is really exciting when you see some ideas and concepts catch a tailwind and continue to move forward. In the last couple of weeks we have seen news from two death care start-ups,…
