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Morgan Stanley gives “Key Takeaways” on the One Big Beautiful Bill and how they may help your business

By Funeral Director Daily / August 25, 2025 /

    There is a lot to learn about a bill that is 870 pages long.  While not as big as some bills such as the 906 pages of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 870 pages of regulations is a lot to digest.   I don’t pretend to know everything about the One…

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What’s up with Foundation Partners, transactions, womens’ roles, and the movies capture our most read article list

By Funeral Director Daily / August 18, 2025 /

    Another month has rolled on by and we continue to write varied articles that let those in the Death Care profession know what is going on around them.  Our articles vary in topic and it is a guess from month-to-month which articles might be of the most interest to readers.   That’s why…

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Park Lawn partner taking mortgage bank private

By Funeral Director Daily / August 11, 2025 /

      Last year, almost exactly one year ago this week, Funeral Director Daily published this article announcing that Park Lawn Corporation had the regulatory approvals to sell the company to Veridian Holdings L.P. which was a business made up through a partnership of Homesteaders Life and Birch Hill Equity Partners.   Recently, Birch…

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Seeking Alpha author gives another Service Corp opinion

By Funeral Director Daily / August 4, 2025 /

    Last week was Earnings Release week for Service Corporation International (SCI) and readers of Funeral Director Daily are getting their second consecutive article on the company’s performance in this update.  This morning’s article was headlined, “Firing on all cylinders”.   Investor information network Seeking Alpha published an article last week from Lighting Rock…

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Tribute Technology announces 2025 “Tech-Enabled” Funeral Home Award winners

By Funeral Director Daily / July 24, 2025 /

  You’ve heard me say it in ever-increasing statements. . . .the “it” being that I see a nexus coming into focus of “Traditional vs. Technological” in the Death Care profession.   To further highlight that and prove the fact we recently learned that Tribute Technology, a funeral home focused technology company, named award winners…

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The month’s “Top 5” . . . From bankruptcy to consumer groups to selling your funeral home. . . We have a wide range of topics

By Funeral Director Daily / July 17, 2025 /

  Funeral Director Daily tries to provide some type of coverage for everybody.  This month’s Top 5 most read articles seem to give credence to that effort.  Our readers chose articles that deal with a diversity of topics — from bankruptcy to consumer groups suggestions to selling your funeral home.   We also bring articles…

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Peer Support: How far is too far??

By Funeral Director Daily / July 14, 2025 /

We are already coming up on the third Tuesday of the month and that means it is time for another Cremation Association of North America (CANA) sponsored funeral professionals peer support online meeting.   This month CANA brings us Tony Russo who asks the question “How far is too far” in dealing with families?  …

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Tukios moves forward by optimizing for GEO

By Funeral Director Daily / July 7, 2025 /

    It was announced last week by Tukios, a leading provider of funeral home websites, that their websites are now equiped to rank in AI searches.  According to Tukios, “this optimization makes all Tukios websites ready for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — the modern version of SEO — helping funeral homes get noticed by…

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We’re almost there

By Funeral Director Daily / July 1, 2025 /

  Today marks the beginning of July and the first day of the second-half of 2025.  I figured it was a good time to sincerely thank all the readers and sponsors who continue to make Funeral Director Daily the Number One choice for “Business News” in the Death Care profession.   I started blogging to…

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Data is all around you — do you see it?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2025 /

    There’s a lot of places that one can collect data to help them with their business – and that business could be Death Care or international espionage.  This story is not necessarily about Death Care, but it is about finding data in interesting places that you may not be looking for it.  …

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