Funeral Director Daily
This is one of those articles that I will write that probably has no answers. It only brings up questions. That question today is “What’s with Excess Deaths”? When the pandemic hit and deaths increased for almost all funeral homes across the world, one of the questions asked was “With these extra…
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Last week North America’s largest funeral service company, Service Corporation International (SCI), announced in their 4th Quarter report “On the acquisition front, we had a very active fourth quarter investing $89 million in four separate transactions across the United States and Canada. These transactions added 14 funeral homes and 3 cemeteries, which included 3 combination locations.” And…
Read MoreWe’ve recently noticed some webinars and podcasts that we feel are very timely and you might enjoy watching them. Also, all of these programs are free of charge, except in some instances where you may want to earn CEU credits for them. Here’s the information you need to access these. From…
Read MoreThere are a lot of great companies out there who can help you with the newest way to reach potential client families. Some of them, like RingRing Marketing are sponsors of this forum. They will do a great job in helping you navigate social media and the internet to let potential clientele know…
Read MoreOver the years that I hired funeral directors to work at our funeral home I looked for various traits that I felt would help a funeral home in a community of my size. I certainly knew that I needed professional staff that was excellent in the preparation room. But, I also needed staff…
Read MoreThe Washington Post recently printed this article which in part said, “. . . .a distinct shift is underway in how we approach death. More than half of Americans are seeking greener funerals, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, and the percentage is rising. The funeral industry is responding: You can now be entombed in a…
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The largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, Service Corporation International, reported 4th Quarter 2022 and Year End 2022 financials earlier this week and one of the things we noticed is that quarterly and yearly revenue was less than 4Q2021 and less than Year End 2021. However, that is not unexpected…
Read MoreWe’ve touched on the subject in this forum before — when is the proper age, as a consumer, to look into getting a preneed funeral/cremation account? I’ve opined that our funeral home used to look at Social Security age and then lowered that to age 55 and over. Lately, according to all that I…
Read MoreIt’s pretty common place to read in Funeral Director Daily and other Death Care publications about the national and regional funeral home and cemetery consolidators announcing another acquisition. However, when we were catching up with our reading a few days ago we noticed an acquisition. . . .that was “going the other way”.…
Read MoreSometimes I just come across ideas for Funeral Director Daily articles by accident. On Saturday I was going out for my weekly “reward” of a time at a coffee shop and stopped to buy a newspaper to read while there. Since the local Naples Times-Herald was out, I had a choice of the…
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