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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…

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…

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?  …

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…

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…

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.  …

“The Mortician” becomes HBO’s “most-watched” documentary in over 5 years

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2025 /

    Here’s what this article in Deadline says of the recent HBO series “The Mortician”:  “The three-part documentary series, which chronicles the inhumane practices at a funeral home in Southern California, debuted on June 1. Since then, the show has tallied more than 2.6M cross-platform viewers in the U.S., per the network.  It’s now…

Sunset regulations, Hollywood, Guest writers, and Out-of-the-Box thinking dominate “Most Read” articles of the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2025 /

  Once again it is time for Funeral Director Daily to give our readers a 2nd chance to read articles that they may have missed in the past 30 days.  We’ve highlighted the Top 5 most read from May 15 to June 15 below.   The articles again show the variety of topics that Funeral…

Join CANA for Peer Support online tomorrow night

By Funeral Director Daily / June 16, 2025 /

    Tomorrow night is June 17th and it is the 3rd Tuesday of the month so that brings us the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) sponsored online Peer Support meeting.   The monthly Peer Support meetings are for all funeral home, cemetery, crematory, and other Death Care workers.   According to information from…