Afternoon Edition
Just the other day Funeral Director Daily received our monthly report on website activity from Monster Insights which aggregates information from Google. I am extremely happy to report FDD pageviews for the month of September 2024 reached 21,063. On an annual run-rate that would equate to a total of over 250,000 page…
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As customary, Funeral Director Daily looks to mid-month to reflect on what our readers have been reading. We do so by re-posting our most popular read articles of the past 30 days. . . . .This month there is a small familiarity with those articles — they either contain a story of Service…
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I received a marketing piece from a retirement wealth management company the other day and in looking at it found some statistics on the Baby Boomer generation that I feel pertains to funeral homes, cemeteries, and death care in general. In particular, I wondered how funeral homes are reaching out and making…
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Tomorrow will mark the 3rd Tuesday of October and with every 3rd Tuesday comes the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) Peer Support Meeting. Supported by CANA, here’s what their teaser on this month’s subject says: “This month, we will host an open forum for discussion on any topic. All are given space…
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Back in April 2024 Tukios and its founder CEO Curtis Funk announced that they would be producing a podcast series titled “Podcasket”. According to this press release on the series, it would feature “. . . . all things deathcare, feature special guests, and will be available on any streaming device. I was humbled…
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I believe that America is still that land of opportunity. It’s a place where people can not only dream of starting their own business and create upward mobility for their family and themselves through ingenuity and hard work, but is a place where that dream can become reality. As a matter of…
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Next Wednesday, October 2, the University of Minnesota Program of Mortuary Science will be sharing a webinar entitled “Understanding Natural Organic Reduction” (NOR). This webinar, conducted by an educational institution would be a great opportunity for funeral professionals to get an introduction into the NOR process. The live webinar will take place for…
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It was announced earlier in September that Jessica Wakefield has joined Better Place Forests as their new Director of Partnerships, Community, and Education. The announcement made this comment, “With over 15 years of experience in the funeral service industry, Jessica will play a pivotal role in building and strengthening partnerships with local funeral…
Read MoreIf there was a doubt that how Death Care is changing is of interest to practitioners in the business, one would only have to look at article readership of Funeral Director Daily over the past thirty days to prove the point to the doubter. Every 30 days, on the 15th of each month,…
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In less than a month Carriage Services will be hosting the inaugural “Carriage Cares Open”. This fund-raising golf tournament will be held on October 10 at the Woodlands Resort Golf Club in Houston, Texas. The one-day Scramble event will raise money for the Carriage Cares Foundation and benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of…
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