Business
If you are a college football fan the argument over the last three years with the advent of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) money, the open Transfer Portal, and the expansion of the major conferences is whether the Big Ten Conference or the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is now the dominant conference in college…
My career in the Death Care business spans from 1980 when I attained my funeral director’s license until today where I keep my eye on what is happening in the business so that I can share with readers my opinions. However, I’ve been out of “active management” of a funeral home for over a…
I don’t think it will happen overnight, but if you operate a funeral home or if you are an employee of a funeral home I think the time to be watching for possible employee health care benefit changes is near. I got up on Sunday morning and looked over my daily inbox news…
According to this article from the Lansing (Illinois) Journal the Schroeder-Lauer Funeral Home of Lansing was purchased by Allen Memorial Partners LLC of Utah with the sale closing in June of this past summer. And, according to the article and other information I received the area in and around Lansing, Illinois, “was…
I work with a couple of financial advisors on my investments. I do a lot of research on my own and then visit with the advisor(s) when making changes to my portfolio. Doing that research led me to read this article from Seeking Alpha (which may have a paywall) where the author suggested…
Back in 1982 when John Naisbitt’s bestselling book, Megatrends, was flying off the shelves (it was before Amazon so it wasn’t being ordered by mail) the book commented that Americans were “drowning in information but starved for knowledge”. As we get deeper and deeper into what Naisbitt coined “The Information Age” that thought process…
I recently read a blog post on the Funeral Directors Life (FDL) blog written by Todd Carlson, Executive Vice-President and Chief Sales officer at Funeral Directors Life. The article was titled “Three preneed trends your funeral home should know about” and I found it very informative and a good starting point in looking at…
I’m not a macro economist. I’m just a common sense business person who tries to square big numbers into more household like comparisons. When I look at last week’s analysis that the United States inflation rate is rising 3.4% in a year over year comparison I see that as a signal that our country’s…
There are a lot of companies in, and moving into, the funeral home acquisition sphere that has been going on for about seven decades. Ever since Robert Waltrip purchased his 2nd funeral home in Houston, Texas, and started building what became Service Corporation International in the 1960’s a lot of business people have emulated…
So today, September 11, 2026, marks the 25th anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks on America. For those of us who are baby boomers, that day is seared in our memory as are the days of the President John F. Kennedy assassination, the day that astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, and…
