Afternoon Edition

What’s coming up this week in Funeral Service. . .

By Funeral Director Daily / April 17, 2023 /

      Mental health, physical health, and business health are all important aspects of how we perform.  This week you can learn about all of those subjects and how to stay in peak performance throught webinars and support meetings put on by your colleagues in the greater death care network.  Here’s what’s up this…

Movie being produced about funeral director Danny Jefferson

By Funeral Director Daily / April 4, 2023 /

    If you ever met funeral director Danny Jefferson then it’s pretty simple knowledge that you have one more friend.  Danny Jefferson, who contributes to these pages every so often with his “Two Guys and a Question” podcast with partner Alan Creedy, is the consummate Southern gentleman and consummate funeral director.   Danny probably…

A webinar that you should not miss

By Funeral Director Daily / March 21, 2023 /

        Empathy is a great skill as you go forward in life.  It’s one of the characteristics of highly emotionally intelligent people according to this article.   One of the things that made me an effective funeral director, at least in my opinion, was the empathy I was able to relate as…

Robert Waltrip, Acquisitions, and Excess Deaths make up the Top Stories of the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / March 17, 2023 /

    It seems amazing to me how fast 30 days seems to go.  Once again we offer up our Top Read stories from Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days. . . Here they are. . . Enjoy the weekend. . .   In Memoriam:  Robert Waltrip, SCI Founder. InvoCare receives over US…

Customer experiences, Women in funeral service, Peer Support, and the Economy. . . .interesting things to learn about

By Funeral Director Daily / March 15, 2023 /

    We thought we would use an Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily to pass on some upcoming webinars and podcasts that deal with recent happenings. . . . Customer experience is what it is about now in retaining client families, more and more women are entering the Death Care workforce, our friends at…

Should you have a surcharge for weekend work?

By Funeral Director Daily / March 7, 2023 /

    If funeral homes are going to continue to serve their communities with full service, they have to be profitable.  Many funeral homes have seen margins erode as families choose less service and other death care competitors move into their service areas.   Our friends at “2 Guys and a Question” podcast ponder that…

Acquisitions, buy-outs, creative ideas. . . here’s a recap of our month’s top stories

By Funeral Director Daily / February 27, 2023 /

    We are a little bit late this month but here are the stories that our readers found most interesting over the last 30 days. . .well, actually the 30 days from January 15, 2023, to February 15, 2023.  There’s something for everybody in these articles — acquisitions, buy-outs, local promotion, corporate thoughts, and…

Non-compete agreements, Customer Experience, Community Engagement. . . some timely learning opportunities for our readers

By Funeral Director Daily / February 22, 2023 /

    We’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…

Another acquisition story . . . except this one’s going the other way

By Funeral Director Daily / February 15, 2023 /

    It’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”.…

Living paycheck to paycheck, de-influencers. . . will they affect the death care market

By Funeral Director Daily / February 7, 2023 /

    This morning’s article related to the changing face of religion and how that has affected the funeral/memorial/tribute portion of the death care business over the past couple of decades.  Over the weekend I noticed a couple of items that signaled current trends and put out the question as to whether or not these…