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Top articles include funeral home size, reaching a cremation peak, and why not “recurring revenue” for funeral homes

By Funeral Director Daily / September 18, 2025 /

  The last 30 day period has been one of the best, in terms of page views, in Funeral Director Daily’s history.  As I write this on Wednesday afternoon Funeral Director Daily has compiled 20,085 page views over the latest rolling 30-day period.  That more than likely puts us as the #1 read daily Death…

CANA’s Peer Support Meeting tomorrow night will focus on “Stress”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 15, 2025 /

    Dwight Thompson, a seasoned social worker, psychotherapist, and former funeral director with more than 20 years of experience in mental health and grief care will highlight the monthly interactive Peer Support meeting for September.  The online peer support meeting for funeral service workers sponsored by the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) will…

Your funeral home can use Legacy.com’s “power draw” for local visibility

By Funeral Director Daily / September 4, 2025 /

    According to SimilarWeb Legacy.com drew a total of over 43 million visits in July 2025.  That’s a whole lot of people accessing a website.   When families search for obituary notices, share memorials, of look for service details, they are often visiting Legacy.com.  And now, when people visit Legacy.com your funeral home can…

Tukios offers new enhancements for funeral home websites

By Funeral Director Daily / September 2, 2025 /

    One of the leaders in funeral technology solutions, Tukios, informed us last week that they have brought to market new enhancements for websites that will allow funeral homes to streamline event planning, registration, and payment processing online.   From our point of view, families are inreasingly seeking personalized, meaningful experiences to celebrate life,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…