Funeral Director Daily
Editor’s Note: A recent article that we published on the increasing United States death rate brought commentary from Jake Johnson of Funeral Director Daily sponsor Johnson Consulting Group. Here’s Jake’s take on what increasing death rates may mean to your funeral home: A recent article by Funeral Director Daily was published on the national death…
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There is an incredible amount of trust in the death care business. Families trust funeral directors to care for their most prized possessions — their loved ones who die. And, good funeral directors know of that trust and do everything within their power to diligently carry out the requests of families who put that trust…
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We commented on an article about what an author called “Big Funeral” in last Friday’s edition of Funeral Director Daily. While I told you I didn’t agree with much of the article from Wired, I thought it was a pretty good read and, at least, one author’s not so great opinion of the death care…
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Roosevelt Investments, a wealth management firm with 50 years of experience working with funeral and cemetery professionals, will host its next live video call on Thursday, October 14, beginning at 12 Noon Eastern Time. The topic will be “Short-Term Turbulence but Medium-Term Optimism: Our Thoughts Into Year End” John Roscoe, CFA, Chief Investment Officer, and…
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The funeral profession has long had its critics. Those of us in the profession have to understand that and know that from time to time we are going to be broadsided by those critics’ calls for change. Recently this article entitled “How ‘Big Funeral’ made the afterlife so expensive” was published in Wired. It’s a…
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Every once in a while I come across a couple of items that are sometimes related and it makes me think about potential business aspects of the items when combined together. That recently happened to me once again — late in September I received a marketing e-mail from the Cremation Association of North America (CANA)…
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A relatively new death tech app, Empathy, recently raised $30 million in Series A funding according to this article from Tech Crunch. The product is designed to help bereaving families navigate the choppy waters that result when a family member or someone close to them dies. “Empathy is a customer-centric company with compassion at our…
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It was announced last Friday that Park Lawn Corporation had acquired the Malcolm, Deavitt & Binhammer Funeral Home Limited. The one building standalone funeral home is located in Pembroke, Ontario. The funeral home, according to this press release from Park Lawn Corporation, “performs approximately 153 calls per year.” Here’s what J. Bradley Green, Chief Executive…
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It’s an age old debate that is carried on even in MBA classes at major colleges. . . . . .Where are your advertising dollars spent best — on Customer Acquisition or on Customer Retention? A local issue in a concern outside of the death care industry had my friends and I debating it over…
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I’ve been around the death care business for a long time and I’m certain that I didn’t always make the correct decision in the many hundreds of decisions that I had to make every month. However, I can tell you that I always wanted to “Do the Right Thing.” And, the times when I realized…
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