Afternoon Edition

Here’s our “Top Read” articles for the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / February 17, 2022 /

Over the last 30 days our most read articles have come from a variety of issues in death care. . . acquisitions, the growth of urban funeral homes, casket sales data, funeral poverty and the advent of non-profit funeral homes, and a look at what may be coming next for death care in North America. …

News you can Use

By Funeral Director Daily / February 15, 2022 /

We’ve let a few things pile up on our desk and it was well time that we cleaned them out and let you know what is else in going on in Death Care and how you can stay involved and learn even more.  Here’s some information on topics of interest including the Cremation Association of…

The experts opine on Service Corporation and Carriage Services

By Funeral Director Daily / January 20, 2022 /

We’ve now entered the season where public companies will give their reports on their 4th Quarter and Year End results from 2021.  As the death care companies report their results we will bring them to you. It’s also a season where financial and stock analysts like to give us their opinions on what has happened…

Funeral Director Daily’s Top Stories of the Month

By Funeral Director Daily / January 18, 2022 /

As we do each month, in case you missed one, we re-cap Funeral Director Daily’s “Top Stories of the Last 30 Days”.  Here are the top read stories selected by total page views for the dates of December 15 thru January 15. Foundation Partners announces new acquisition, record growth. Is this the start of the…

Helping you with Workforce challenges

By Funeral Director Daily / January 12, 2022 /

While not specific to the death care industry, our friends at Clifton Larson Allen have provided some resources to us to help us in the quest for employees and what it may take going forward to obtain and retain them. Article—  Workforce Challenges:  Pre and Post Pandemic Access the article here. Webinar—Overcoming Workforce Challenges.  Learn…

How some in the secular financial world see Death Care. . . interesting articles

By Funeral Director Daily / January 4, 2022 /

I like to stay abreast of what is happening in the world of finance.  And, even though I like to stay in my lane about what I know, over the years I probably bought a stock or two in a company where I didn’t really know the inside out of how the company made its…

Thank You for 2021!

By Funeral Director Daily / December 31, 2021 /

I wanted to make sure that my last post of the year was a Thank You to the many readers and sponsors of Funeral Director Daily.  This venture started five years ago as a periodic article to relate my experiences as a funeral director and, hopefully, relate those experiences to mentor others in the profession. …

Schoedinger sale, Kennedy casket story top month’s most read

By Funeral Director Daily / December 20, 2021 /

As we’ve started to do in recent months, we recall the most read Funeral Director Daily stories of the past thirty days.  There is a little for everybody in this edition as the top story has to do with mergers and acquisitions, the second most-read story is a little-known history story from the death of…

Webinar: The Future of Work

By Funeral Director Daily / December 7, 2021 /

Funeral Director Daily’s morning message was one that its essence pointed out that in business, businesses will prosper best if the management and the employees can be on the same page.  With that in mind we bring you the following Webinar entitled “The Future of Work — What comes Next”. We believe that this webinar…

An interesting podcast for that drive home or for a Saturday just sitting around. . .

By Funeral Director Daily / December 3, 2021 /

Just perfect to leave you with for this weekend is access to this podcast from Let’s Get Social entitled “How the funeral industry is using social media effectively”.  It comes to us from one of our readers in Ireland who sent us the access information along with this note: “I co-host a social media for…