Business
Yesterday we took a look at how funeral merchants should expect their clients to pay for the services that they select. Our article took a look at crowdfunding, credit cards, savings, and, of course, preneed funding. And, we concluded that as good as it is to get payment done and out of the…
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I ran across this article the other day that is entitled, “Financing a Funeral: Crowdfunding, insurance, credit cards, loans, and payment plans”. The article comes from a publication called “The Enlightened Mindset” and appears directed towards the consumer. I don’t think it is a “bad” article, but you can also tell it is not…
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People from not only the United States, but from almost every country around the world have seen a whip-saw of economic conditions since the pandemic year of 2020. It was a pandemic economy that saw the “stay at home” commerce of technology and furniture or home improvement sales grow by leaps and bounds and,…
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Back in junior high school when I took aptitude tests for future employment ideas the results for my tests were always that I should go into “Marketing”. I pursued mortuary science but I do believe that my “marketing aptitude” was helpful in building our funeral home business. And, while “marketing” can be about…
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I’ve said it before and truly believe it. Death care is changing and will continue to change. No longer are traditional funeral homes the only option for those who need death care services. Have you heard of the “Be a Tree Cremation Service” of Denver, Colorado, yet? Neither had I until this past…
Read MoreChildren survivors: 12 year-old leads rally for “Bereavement classes” to be taught in public schools
My younger brother, Jim, and I learned about the death of a parent the hard way. I was a 19 year-old Freshman in college and he was a 15 year-old Sophomore in high school when our father died of a sudden heart attack while servicing a funeral. Immy Leith learned the hard way,…
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It may be because funeral homes, generations ago, were usually started by a person with a caring heart who figured that if he gave families death care services such as caskets and burials, he could make some money doing so. Like most entrepreneurs these individuals were willing to work long, hard hours and build…
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Lee Webster has co-founded an organization known as the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance and served in leadership positions at the National Home Funeral Alliance and the Green Burial Association. According to this recent article in Hospice News Webster makes this comment, “I’ve definitely seen a growing trend of natural burials really appealing to…
Read More“This is the most emotionally draining case I have ever experienced on the bench,” U.S. District Judge Christine M. Arguello said during Tuesday’s (January 3, 2023) sentencing hearing in Grand Junction, Colorado. That was the comment, according to this article from Reuters, by the presiding judge at the sentencing hearing of body parts brokers…
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a notice last week, that you can read here, that announced that they are contemplating banning almost all non-compete agreements that are not a part of an agreement between buying and selling companies. Since non-compete agreements have been a part of the employer/employee relationship in funeral homes this…
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