Business

Marketing: The importance of “Connecting”

By Funeral Director Daily / November 14, 2024 /

  Marketing is an interesting phenomena. . . and not all of us really realize how it works.   We had a presidential election in America last week and this article won’t be about the philosophies of the candidates, but it will be a little about the marketing of those candidates and creating a brand.…

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Jake Johnson: The Path to Entrepreneurship in the Funeral Profession

By Funeral Director Daily / November 13, 2024 /

    Contributed article authored by Jake Johnson, CEO of Johnson Consulting Group: The funeral profession has long provided avenues for entrepreneurship, and now, more than ever, the opportunities to become your own boss are growing. According to recent National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) statistics, there will be a significant number of funeral home ownership…

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Weigel on Marketing

By Funeral Director Daily / November 12, 2024 /

  If you operate a funeral home, crematory, cemetery, or other Death Care business you are approached with a lot of marketing opportunities.  Every business owner or manager has to look at the opportunities and weigh the cost of the particular marketing with the potential exposure available and the image it will bring to your…

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Today is Veterans Day

By Funeral Director Daily / November 11, 2024 /

    If you work in the consumer facing Death Care business it’s pretty likely that you come into contact with Veterans of the United States Armed Forces on a consistent basis.  For me, as a funeral director, most of my time with the older veterans in my community was at funeral services where they…

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It’s Election Day. . .Tomorrow let’s move on and be better human beings

By Funeral Director Daily / November 5, 2024 /

    Well, here we are — Election Day 2024!  Tomorrow some will be happy, some will be sad, some will have joy, and some will have angst in their hearts.   I get it — we all want to win and in a divided country it certainly seems like only 50% will.  But you…

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CEO Charlie Cole, two other executives leave Tribute Technologies

By Funeral Director Daily / October 29, 2024 /

  At Funeral Director Daily we don’t “break news” — we report on it and offer experienced analysis, ideas, and suggestions on the news that has happened.  That being said, the headline for this article on the resignations of three Tribute Technology employees does not come as a surprise to me.   This news was…

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Observations from the “Big Easy”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 25, 2024 /

    I spent parts of 5 days and 4 nights in New Orleans earlier this week participating in the annual National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) convention.  It was a time to learn new things and visit with old friends.  And, while there I attended workshops, took part in some keynote speaker addresses, wandered the…

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Montana sees struggles with Human Remains airline transportation

By Funeral Director Daily / October 23, 2024 /

    Statistics tell us that over 80% of Americans live within one hour of an urban area.  If the population of the USA is about 333 million then that leaves the other 20%, or almost 67 million people outside of those urban areas.  I’m one of those 67 million and I love where I…

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Can funeral homes “Contain their costs” in 2025

By Funeral Director Daily / October 22, 2024 /

    Within the last week I received my health insurance plan 2025 rates and I also paid the property and casualty insurance on my lake cabin.  The health insurance premium was up 7.4% and my P&C cabin insurance also took a hike.  I also was at a funeral home seminar where I heard a…

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Research indicates Global funeral market to reach $88.6 billion by 2033

By Funeral Director Daily / October 21, 2024 /

    Right in the middle of the United States’ National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) annual convention in New Orleans is probably a good time to drop information from a press release that we received in mid-September.   That press release, which you can access here, came from PR Newswire with information provided by Allied…

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