Funeral Director Daily
There’s no doubt that for the last 3-4 years most of the news coming on the business front has resulted in employers raising wages and benefits to their employees even while other aspects of the business were not necessarily positive. For instance, inflation at higher than anticipated rates has caused most employers to…
Matthews International, the conglomerate company with their largest portion of sales in Death Care, or what they call their Memorialization Segment, reported gross sales for their First Fiscal Quarter (October thru December 2023) of 2024 coming in at $450 million as compared to $449.2 million for the same period one year ago. …
I’m a baseball fan and if you are a baseball player there is nothing so crowning to one’s career as what is termed as the “Call to The Hall”. That phrase is known in baseball circles as what happens when an incredible talented player, coach, or other baseball executive is notified by the Baseball…
Over the past couple of years many in the Death Care profession have identified that there has been a labor issue in funeral service. Anecdotally, in my opinion, most of that labor issue has simply been in being “short-staffed” on the licensed funeral director/embalmer realm. There seems to be somewhat of a lull…
So, I was raised in an era where you could have any type of funeral service you wanted — as long as it consisted of embalming, a visitation, a church funeral service, and ended with a traditional burial in a cemetery. As a 4th generation funeral director, beginning my job in 1980, I’m guessing…
I was watching the news the other day and it struck me that the issues going on in the Middle East could again cause some of the “Supply Chain” issues that we found in our businesses across America back in 2021 and 2022. Among those issues in the Death Care business was the…
In America our court systems help define what is a Federal issue and what is an issue for a lesser proportion — say a “State’s Rights Issue” or an issue of a city or county within a state. And, sometimes the decision can be confusing and the decision on how to approach the issue,…
Getting people to know about you and know what you have available is a big part of any new business. Some businesses may track a “promotional cost per sale” or look at something they call “customer acquisition cost” which is really the same thing. . . . It tracks the amount of money…
This recent article in Florida’s Business Observer is titled “Funeral home finds success with new life celebration model”. The article goes on to discuss, among other business changes in the death care industry, the Robert Toale & Sons Celebration of Life Center in the Sarasota, Florida, area. The Robert Toale & Sons…
I recently learned of a Veterans Administration (VA) product that all funeral homes can suggest to the military veterans in your community. It is called “Service Reflections” and comes from the “Together We Served” (TWS) initiative with the end result being a memorial that all Veterans and their families can be proud of. …
