Business
I’ve now moved the Funeral Director Daily home office to our winter rental in Southwest Florida for the next 90 days. With that comes a few rounds of golf per week and the chance to meet and visit with new people whom I meet on the golf course. It didn’t take me long…
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It doesn’t matter what type of Death Care business your are in. . . funeral home, crematory, casket supplier, vault company, chemical company. . . . the odds are that you have seen your costs of business go up in the past four years — since inflation started creeping up sometime in 2021. …
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As my first post of the New Year I find it imperative that I look into the world of Death Care, Funeral, and Cremation business with a perspective of change that is happening all around us. And, when I look at that change, I think in our Death Care world, as well as…
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It hit me the other day while I was in the process of reading a new book, “Meeting the Moment”. It’s a story of how six United States Presidents “met the moment” and “Inspired Presidential Leadership that transformed America”. It’s also probably an odd place to get insight and inspiration for putting down…
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Back in early June of this year (2024) many of us were surprised by this announcement that public funeral home and cemetery operator Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) had agreed to be acquired and taken private by a group known as Veridian Holdings. Probably most consequential in that announcement was that one of the partners…
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For the past 20 years or so since the advent of online news by the legacy television news broadcasters there has been a “blurring of the lines” between news and advertising. I happened to run across this apparent “ad-vertorial” for national online direct cremation company Tulip Cremation the other day and just wanted to…
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Next week is Chrsitmas. . . . . And, almost everybody has their own traditions on how they spend time with their family or their community. But what about your funeral home? What are the traditions that they follow? Having looked-forward to annual traditions is not only a way to celebrate with…
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We learned last week that a Auburndale, Florida, resident and funeral director had been honored as American Funeral Director’s “Funeral Director of the Year”. In a press release from her employers at Foundation Partners Group it was explained that Jennifer Lindell-Roys, a funeral director at the Kersey Funeral Home had been so honored.…
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The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) issued their monthly “Optimism Index” last week and it showed the highest degree of “optimism” among small businesses in America since 2021. That’s great but, there are also conflicting reports that came out that share a degree of caution among businesses. For instance, this article from…
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I found an interesting, unique, and well-thought out expansion by a funeral home aimed at bringing their geographical reach closer to more families. At the same time that this funeral home expanded from three locations to five locations they subtly tweaked their brand name by matching it with “. . .the younger generation of…
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