Afternoon Edition

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…

Park Lawn enters state of Georgia with acquisition

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2021 /

Park Lawn Corporation (PLC), the Canadian based funeral and cemetery operator announced in this press release yesterday that they had entered the state of Georgia with an agreement to purchase the Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory located in Cumming, Forsythe County.  The press release stated that the acquisition is scheduled to close in December of…

Podcasts that you may enjoy

By Funeral Director Daily / November 29, 2021 /

Over the holiday weekend we came across the following podcasts that you may enjoy: From Deathcare Decoded: “Core Values – Gratitude” Kicking off the 2021 holiday season with this special episode of Deathcare Decoded, Alexandra explores the concept of gratitude, which is one of Parting Stone’s four core company values. She explains how Parting Stone…

Corporate funeral home articles are among top read Funeral Director Daily subjects in last 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / November 16, 2021 /

As we have started to do in the last several months we will list here the most read articles published by Funeral Director Daily over the past 30 days.  For the period from October 15-November 14 the number one article was entitled “Park Lawn Announces Three Acquisitions”.  Following  is a link to it and the…

“Final Responders” PSA passes more than $5 million in advertising value

By Funeral Director Daily / November 12, 2021 /

Last March a public service announcement (PSA) created by the International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral Association (ICCFA) Education Foundation began airing.  In early November the association announced that the PSA campaign has been one of the best in media history by, according to Nielsen TV research, being broadcast 7,955 times and viewed by an approximate…