Funeral Director Daily
I had the opportunity to attend a funeral mass at our local Roman Catholic church last week for a retired funeral director friend of mine. He was a really good person who was a one-time competitor of mine but most recently his daughter, a really exceptional funeral director in her own right, is employed…
As has become our custom when an article about one of the Death Care Index (DCI) companies is published in Seeking Alpha we bring that article to you. Last week an article about Carriage Services was published titled “Carriage Services: Strong gains look beckoning in 2025″. You can access that article here.…
There was a day when someone that used the fictional Jones Funeral Home in Anytown, USA, knew that it was the Jones family that had the ownership and pride in that business. They knew if there was anything in their small community that pertained to Death Care business, the Jones family would know…
Last week it seemed that every time I turned around I heard a news story about debt. . . . Here’s one that’s titled “Over nine million student loan borrowers could see their credit scores tank as delinquencies are poised to hit record highs“. Or this one from the Federal Reserve Bank of New…
Funny how 28 hours alone in a car gives you plenty of time to think about things you probably would not think about otherwise. . . . I arrived home in Minnesota on Monday after spending Saturday, Sunday, and part of Monday returning from our winter rental home in Southwest Florida. You might…
Prelude’s website makes this statement “We created the world’s best in-person selling software that anyone in your funeral home can use to close in just one meeting”. One year ago on March 8, 2024, Funeral Director Daily published our first article on the company. That article, that you can read here, was titled,…
Parting Stone, the New Mexico based start-up that takes cremated ash remains and turns them into what they term “Solidified Remains” recently sent out this press release celebrating their 10,000th family served in their short business history. In the press release the company says this about their achievement, “This milestone marks a significant…
Everstory Partners serves over 65,000 families annually and in addition to its funeral home business, operates close to 400 cemeteries around the United States, including Puerto Rico. Recently they authored this press release which lets us know that they have completed a process in which all cemeteries have been digitized. Here’s what…
It probably won’t surprise anybody in the Death Care profession that a recent study showed that “Individuality” in funeral choice is becoming far more popular that “Religiosity”. As a matter of fact, 68% of those consumers questioned believed in holding a “Celebration of Life” rather than a “Time of Reflection”. And, that…
Where will future revenue growth for the funeral industry come from? That’s a thought that I have after I did a small study or exercise on growth revenues for certain industries. While my study is not scientific I looked at selected companies to gain an idea of how well the respective industries are…
