Funeral Director Daily
Statistics tell us that over 80% of Americans live within one hour of an urban area. If the population of the USA is about 333 million then that leaves the other 20%, or almost 67 million people outside of those urban areas. I’m one of those 67 million and I love where I…
Within the last week I received my health insurance plan 2025 rates and I also paid the property and casualty insurance on my lake cabin. The health insurance premium was up 7.4% and my P&C cabin insurance also took a hike. I also was at a funeral home seminar where I heard a…
Just the other day Funeral Director Daily received our monthly report on website activity from Monster Insights which aggregates information from Google. I am extremely happy to report FDD pageviews for the month of September 2024 reached 21,063. On an annual run-rate that would equate to a total of over 250,000 page…
Right in the middle of the United States’ National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) annual convention in New Orleans is probably a good time to drop information from a press release that we received in mid-September. That press release, which you can access here, came from PR Newswire with information provided by Allied…
Tomorrow I’ll be on my way to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) convention in New Orleans. I’ll spend three or four days there, see old friends, grasp new products and see innovations for the first time. This is probably true with many funeral service professionals. . . . but the older I get,…
If you have read Funeral Director Daily for any length of time you would know that I believe that there is an opportunity for increased revenues at funeral homes and cemeteries from what I term as the “Cremation Aftermarket”. My point is that there is a large percentage of American consumers who believe…
As customary, Funeral Director Daily looks to mid-month to reflect on what our readers have been reading. We do so by re-posting our most popular read articles of the past 30 days. . . . .This month there is a small familiarity with those articles — they either contain a story of Service…
In the last calendar year – dating back to October 16, 2023 – Matthews International stock, the parent company of Aurora Casket and Matthews Environmental Solutions (cremation), has dropped over 44% in a world, by contrast, where the Dow Jones Industrials have risen over 25% for the same dates. A recent (October 6,…
I received a marketing piece from a retirement wealth management company the other day and in looking at it found some statistics on the Baby Boomer generation that I feel pertains to funeral homes, cemeteries, and death care in general. In particular, I wondered how funeral homes are reaching out and making…
Tomorrow will mark the 3rd Tuesday of October and with every 3rd Tuesday comes the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) Peer Support Meeting. Supported by CANA, here’s what their teaser on this month’s subject says: “This month, we will host an open forum for discussion on any topic. All are given space…
