Funeral Director Daily
As you are probably aware of we at Funeral Director Daily have built up our own index of public stocks which reflect six companies with, at least a part of their business entity in the Death Care profession. Our hope is that by watching this index, and how the companies operate, we can learn something…
We have not been listening if we don’t understand how important a branding image is to businesses as they continue to move forward and grow. Your mind will see an image and immediately conjure up some type of feeling toward that image. American companies learned long ago that bringing a positive image up in your…
Our youngest son graduated from high school yesterday and today my wife and I booked a short trip to Rhode Island to take in the longest continuous running July 4th Parade in the country in Bristol, Rhode Island. Literature says that the parade has been continuously operated since 1787. We are hoping for a little…
There is no doubt that the death care industry continues to consolidate and there is also no doubt that while being large, slow, and methodical may create some problems, it can also use economies of scale to its advantage. For about 35 years I was the owner/operator of a small town funeral home and I…
Just when you think you have seen it all – and I should know better after over 35 years in the business – you see something that you just look at and say, “How can that work”. I came across an interesting article out of New Zealand from Stuff.com.nz today that tells the story of…
So, I’m the odd type of guy that peruses obituaries and hones in on one or two a day to read of people I have never met. I find it very fascinating and it is always interesting to see of the different and unique lives that have been lived. Certainly, as a funeral director, it…
About five or six years ago I was at the Minnesota Funeral Director’s Convention when I first heard about alkaline hydrolysis – the process of an acid bath like process to decomposs the body. I was wandering around the exhibit floor and there was a small booth promoting a machine for such. Being inquisitive, I…
I can remember back in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s when itemized pricing was new and being forced upon funeral homes nationwide as part of a consumer protection Federal Trade Commission rulings on funeral service in the USA. In my opinion, in the long run, the FTC rulings on itemization actually not…
