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Top articles from the past 30 days: Experiential sales, new products, staff changes, and the “Big Easy” all make the cut

By Funeral Director Daily / November 19, 2024 /

    It’s the middle of the month and time to re-cap the Most Read Stories of the past 30 days on Funeral Director Daily.  Funeral Director Daily tries to publish a variety of information, news, and opinions with a wide variety of Death Care interests.  It looks like we succeeded in the past 30…

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CANA’s Peer Support Group focuses on Grief tomorrow night

By Funeral Director Daily / November 18, 2024 /

    It’s coming up on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and that signals that all funeral professionals can log in to learn and participate in the Zoom facilitated Cremation Association of North America’s (CANA) Peer Support event.   I find that tomorrow night’s event happens in a timely fashion as it preceeds the…

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Public funeral home company stocks “Pop” on Earnings Report, Election results

By Funeral Director Daily / November 11, 2024 /

    It was a fairly uncommon occurence on October 30 when the two largest public funeral home and cemetery operating companies reported their 3rd Quarter results on the same day.  Both companies, Service Corporation International (SCI) and Carriage Services, reported “after the financial markets closed’ that day.  So, the first trading that could be…

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NFDA recaps New Orleans

By Funeral Director Daily / November 6, 2024 /

  The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) recently held their annual international convention and expo in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Here’s a link to the NFDA website where they recap all that happened.   If you don’t have time to read it all, here’s a little quote from NFDA’s first paragraph, “Participants engaged in cutting-edge education,…

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Posting your Prices Online: A podcast about it

By Funeral Director Daily / October 31, 2024 /

  There was a lot of talk at the recent National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) Convention about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the upcoming review of the “Funeral Rule”.   While it is true that we don’t know when the FTC will make a final ruling on the “Rule”, the consensus of those who stay…

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WilbertEDU offers “trendy” cremation information from the experts

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2024 /

The registration for an upcoming WilbertEDU educational program offering continuing education credits explains the one-hour seminar as such, “Barbara Kemmis and Brie Bingham share the latest CANA consumer research revealing how cremation is becoming the new tradition and discuss what the profession currently offers to meet this growing demand.”   In addition, according to the…

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Thanks a (Quarter) Million!!!

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2024 /

    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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SCI, Regulatory issues lead the most popular articles of the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / October 16, 2024 /

    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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The Baby Boomers keep on coming — Are you continually preparing for them?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 15, 2024 /

      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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CANA Peer Support: An “Open Forum” this month

By Funeral Director Daily / October 14, 2024 /

  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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