Funeral Director Daily

Here’s some news funeral home owners won’t want to hear. . .

By Funeral Director Daily / September 19, 2023 /

    It had not really occurred to me with everything else that is going on in our economy.  However, one of the expenses that is necessary for a funeral home with a fleet of automobiles, including expensive funeral coaches, is that expense category of insuring those four wheeled vehicles.   And, in this recent…

New Loewen Group movie drives readership

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2023 /

      It’s the middle of the month when Funeral Director Daily recaps our top read stories of the past 30 days.  This month we have proved that our search engine presence is alive and well as a story that originally ran in 2018 was the top read story of the month.   Of…

Viva Las Vegas!!!!. . . Impressions from the NFDA convention floor

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2023 /

    I recently returned from Las Vegas where I spent a couple of days attending seminars, walking the Convention Expo floor, and just catching up with old friends.  For me, “Vegas” is a fun place to go — for about two days — and then I’m glad to be back in “dull” but beautiful…

SCI building funeral home on cemetery grounds in Virginia

By Funeral Director Daily / September 15, 2023 /

  This article from a recent edition of the Roanoke Times of Virginia mentions two funeral homes being built within a half-mile of each other in that community.  At Funeral Director Daily we found that intriguing because we have noticed that with the rise of interest rates coupled with the uncertain sense of large traditional…

Global Green Burial Alliance to form. . . .offers introductory webinar today

By Funeral Director Daily / September 14, 2023 /

    Funeral Director Daily (FDD) was recently notified that a group has been working to bring together what they call the “Global Green Burial Alliance” (GGBA).  FDD received a statement out of Australia earlier this week about the formation.   According to the statement from Mr. Mark Thomas, the Global Green Burial Alliance will…

Loewen movie “The Burial” finally has a release date

By Funeral Director Daily / September 13, 2023 /

    At Funeral Director Daily we have tried to keep you updated on the status of the Hollywood movie that has been produced about the disagreement and eventual lawsuit between one-time power funeral home consolidator company The Loewen Group and a funeral home in Mississippi.   Finally, we have read in this article from…

CANA, Foundation Partners Group offer Cemetery webinar

By Funeral Director Daily / September 12, 2023 /

    Every funeral home and cemetery in North America is looking at ways to increase revenues as case mix decidedly moves to lower cost cremation and memorial services from the traditional casketed burial cases.  One of the ways to increase that revenue is to offer several different ways to memorialize cremated remains. . .…

Jake Johnson on the Acquisition market and Customer Experience

By Funeral Director Daily / September 12, 2023 /

    I recently saw a video where Johnson Consulting CEO Jake Johnson was interviewed by Disrupt Media’s Ryan Thogmartin.  It was fairly brief but in watching it I came away with a couple of insights from Jake Johnson that may be of value to those of you who operate funeral homes and/or are owners…

Are you telling your story?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 11, 2023 /

      Today is Monday, September 11.  First of all, when I think of September 11 I think of where I was and what I felt like on that day 22 years ago — September 11, 2001 — when America was attacked.  It is a day that is seared into my mind. . .…

Convincing a “Traditionalist” of the need to change

By Funeral Director Daily / September 8, 2023 /

    If you Google the phrase “Can’t see the forest for the trees” and ask the meaning of it, here’s what comes back, “we sometimes cannot see situations as they really are while we are in the midst of them. In short, we lose our perspective when we are too heavily invested in a…