Funeral Director Daily

CANA’s Peer Support Group focuses on Grief tomorrow night

By Funeral Director Daily / November 18, 2024 /

    It’s coming up on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and that signals that all funeral professionals can log in to learn and participate in the Zoom facilitated Cremation Association of North America’s (CANA) Peer Support event.   I find that tomorrow night’s event happens in a timely fashion as it preceeds the…

Read More

3rd QTR Net Revenue drops for Mortuary/Cemetery division at Security National

By Funeral Director Daily / November 18, 2024 /

    Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) filed their 3rd Quarter 2024 Form 10-Q last Thursday and with that filing we got a look at the company’s financial results for the 3rd Quarter of 2024.  In that report we noticed that the Revenue for the company’s Mortuary and Cemetery division dropped by 5.8% as compared…

Read More

The Art (and Business) of Bereavement Support

By Funeral Director Daily / November 15, 2024 /

    I don’t know if this ever happens to you, but every so often I seem to get hit from all sides with a certain subject matter.  It’s usually something that I have not thought of for awhile but then, all of a sudden, seem to have the subject come up over and over…

Read More

Marketing: The importance of “Connecting”

By Funeral Director Daily / November 14, 2024 /

  Marketing is an interesting phenomena. . . and not all of us really realize how it works.   We had a presidential election in America last week and this article won’t be about the philosophies of the candidates, but it will be a little about the marketing of those candidates and creating a brand.…

Read More

Jake Johnson: The Path to Entrepreneurship in the Funeral Profession

By Funeral Director Daily / November 13, 2024 /

    Contributed article authored by Jake Johnson, CEO of Johnson Consulting Group: The funeral profession has long provided avenues for entrepreneurship, and now, more than ever, the opportunities to become your own boss are growing. According to recent National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) statistics, there will be a significant number of funeral home ownership…

Read More

Weigel on Marketing

By Funeral Director Daily / November 12, 2024 /

  If you operate a funeral home, crematory, cemetery, or other Death Care business you are approached with a lot of marketing opportunities.  Every business owner or manager has to look at the opportunities and weigh the cost of the particular marketing with the potential exposure available and the image it will bring to your…

Read More

Public funeral home company stocks “Pop” on Earnings Report, Election results

By Funeral Director Daily / November 11, 2024 /

    It was a fairly uncommon occurence on October 30 when the two largest public funeral home and cemetery operating companies reported their 3rd Quarter results on the same day.  Both companies, Service Corporation International (SCI) and Carriage Services, reported “after the financial markets closed’ that day.  So, the first trading that could be…

Read More

Today is Veterans Day

By Funeral Director Daily / November 11, 2024 /

    If you work in the consumer facing Death Care business it’s pretty likely that you come into contact with Veterans of the United States Armed Forces on a consistent basis.  For me, as a funeral director, most of my time with the older veterans in my community was at funeral services where they…

Read More

SCI opens “Nation’s First-of-its-Kind” Mausoleum

By Funeral Director Daily / November 8, 2024 /

    In a press release we received last week funeral home and cemetery operator/consolidator Service Corporation International (SCI) announced the opening of its new property in Sandy Springs, Georgia.   According to the press release that you can read here, the company’s Arlington Memorial Park is “the first memorial structure of its kind designed…

Read More

Washington state funeral home purchases competitor

By Funeral Director Daily / November 7, 2024 /

  This article from the Tri-City Herald of Washington state lets us know that what will now be the largest funeral home operator in the Tri-Cities, Einan Funeral Homes, has grown by adding Hillcrest Funerals and Cremation to their group of funeral homes and cemeteries.   Those funeral homes are located in Kennewick and Pasco,…

Read More