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By Funeral Director Daily / July 8, 2024 /

  A quote from John R. Dijulius III goes like this “If you want to see how a company is doing today, look at their current sales; if you want to know how a company will perform in the future, look at their current Customer Satisfaction scores”.   Customer satisfaction has always been a goal…

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Nebraska board member proposes columbarium under the football field

By Funeral Director Daily / July 3, 2024 /

    The University of Nebraska is evidently facing a $58 million budget shortfall  for the coming season and ideas to eliminate it are coming forward.  One such idea mentioned in this article, proposed by Nebraska regent Barbara Weitz, is to build a columbarium under the football field where departed fans can have their cremated…

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Recent reviews of Death Care credit

By Funeral Director Daily / July 2, 2024 /

    In the last couple of weeks Funeral Director Daily has noticed three companies involved in the Death Care business being under review.   You can read a short commentary from either Fitch Ratings or A.M. Best on the following companies:   Matthews International Heritage Life Insurance Company Homesteaders Life Insurance Company   Enter your…

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Banks, Northey to present Funeral365 webinar tomorrow

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2024 /

  Funeral365, the management solution company for funeral service, is presenting a free online seminar tomorrow, Wednesday, June 26, at 4 pm Eastern Time (3 pm Central Time).   Here’s what the people at Funeral365 say that you can learn from this presentation: The current state of the deathcare industry and financial trends Innovative approaches…

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Johnson Consulting’s Jake Johnson to be featured in Order of the Golden Rule “WebEd” series

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2024 /

    Succession planning and driving enterprise value upward should always be in our minds as owners, managers, and key stakeholders in a business. “The why behind all we do.”  –  That sentence is part of a teaser put out for a webinar to appear on the Order of the Golden Rule’s WebEd” series tomorrow,…

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Park Lawn / Death Care finance stories dominate Funeral Director Daily in last 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / June 19, 2024 /

  The middle of the month came up fast again. . . and at Funeral Director Daily we are excited that we continue to grow.  Our readership, as measured by pageviews, is up another 4.5% over May of 2023. . .Thank you for reading us.   As for stories of the past 30 days it’s…

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Funeral Professionals Peer Support celebrates its 3rd Year on Tuesday evening

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2024 /

    The Cremation Association of North America (CANA) sponsored Funeral Professionals Peer Support celebrates it’s 3rd birthday with tomorrow night’s virtual meeting.  It was in 2021 when the meetings first started and according to information from CANA tomorrow’s meeting “will reflect on three years of change and growth in the funeral profession”.   CANA…

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A great WilbertEDU coming up tomorrow. . .

By Funeral Director Daily / May 29, 2024 /

  Great timing and the ability to get a CEU credit for watching and learning about our nation’s Arlington National Cemetery is being offered free of charge tomorrow, Thursday, May 30, by our friends from Wilbert.   The CEU one-hour program is titled, “A National Shrine- Arlington National Cemetery”.  And, after Monday’s annual wreath-laying by…

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Has the “Reality” met the “Expectations”?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 20, 2024 /

    You decided to become a funeral service professional.  What were your expectations at the time you made the decision?  Tomorrow night, Tuesday, May 21, the Cremation Association of North America (CANA) Peer Support Meeting delves into that question among those that will be attending the virtual sesson.   Here’s what CANA says in…

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FDD’s thoughts on the “Paradox killing funeral service” far and away the most read article in the past 30 days

By Funeral Director Daily / May 16, 2024 /

      It’s the 15th of the month and at Funeral Director Daily it is that time where we total up or page views to see which articles have been read the most by our readers.  This month the Top 5 contains the largest public funeral company’s financial reports as well as news on…

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