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I read this recent article from the Wall Street Journal titled “The Hottest Club in town is. . .Run by your credit-card company?” I’m also pretty aware of the Berkshire Hathaway owned company NetJets. After I read the Wall Street Journal article (that does have a paywall, but you can listen to…
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Late last week Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. decided to drop his independent bid for President of the United States. And, I’m guessing that “Google” searches on the Kennedys picked up. At Funeral Director Daily we noticed an upsurge in an article that we originally produced in 2021 and ran again in 2023. The 2023…
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It’s a common complaint almost everywhere. . . . . cell phones keep us connected to our work, and our bosses, more than most want to be. Many people in today’s world long for a “work/life” balance. . . . . especially in professions like funeral directing which can be a 24/7 proposition…
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This article and news story video from Fox 43 of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, will introduce you to a small Franklin County, Pennsylvania, farm where owner Max Justice is on “a mission to bury the way we are buried”. Justice’s farm is producing biodegradable caskets made from fungi, hemp, and mushroom mycellium. By the time…
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In a press release received last week the Selected Educational Trust announced that Tribute Technology “has issued a matching gift challenge to donors to the Selected Educational Trust. Now throught September 30, Tribute Technology will match dollar-for dollar all gifts made to the Trust up to a total of $10,000″.…
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Earlier in August I came across this feature article titled “One of Oregon’s most prominent families appears to want another family’s burial plot” from Willamette Weekly of Oregon about a disagreement in ownership of grave lots involving two families. And, Service Corporation International (SCI) as the cemetery owner finds themselves right in the…
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Back in April Funeral Director Daily brought you this article which was titled “Federal Trade Commission bans non-compete agreements”. The article went on to explain that the Federal Trade Commission made this decision as a regulatory agency and explained the upcoming results of the decision like this: “This is a comprehensive ban…
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Earlier in August Funeral Director Daily penned an article about being “creative” in your work about memorializing those who you are entrusted to care for. The article, which you can read here, went so far as to start considering the room where you discuss situations with families that you are serving as the “Creative…
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I read this article in yesterday’s Yahoo Finance Morning Briefing and it reminded me of the lengthy “staying power” of family funeral homes in their localities. The article topic is that of how in only 15 years 90% of the companies that were the 10 most dominant in the world (according to market capitalization)…
Read MoreThe introduction of Titan Casket Company’s new product the “Hypercasket” was the most read article on Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days. . . . But, there were other articles dealing with other issues such as cremation, creativity, start-ups, and acquisitions that also found there way into our Top 5. If you…
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