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A recent article in Smart Business Pittsburgh magazine featured the Death Care conglomerate Matthews International. Matthews is known in Death Care from Matthews Memorialization which includes the ability to supply to funeral homes and cemeteries products such as caskets, cremation equipment, and cemetery markers among a host of products. The article, which you can…
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This article from CBS News began with this sentence, “In offices across the country, the sneakers-with-a-suit look is becoming increasingly common. Now, even the hallowed halls of U.S. Congress are embracing the trend.” And, if you go to that article you will find a short CBS video news story about members of the United States…
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Part of my daily routine is to get a run (or some tell me it is a jog. . . or even a slog) in early in the morning. However, even before I do that I log onto my computer to check to see if Funeral Director Daily was distributed overnight as expected. I…
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As you know there are always issues going on in our nation’s capital of Washington, DC. And, some of those issues will touch on the business of Death Care. Today from my latest observations, some things I’ve researched, and some of the things I took in at the recent National Funeral Directors Association…
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I recently ran across this article from Changing America that is titled, “What’s the fastest food drive-thru? It isn’t Chick-fil-A”. It’s a very interesting article that may be able to give us some sense to how we should view our customers in the death care realm. It’s interesting to note that in…
Read MoreMorgan Stanley equity analyst Simeon Gutman recently made this comment in this white paper from Morgan Stanley, “Americans are increasingly attached to their pets, which is clearly shown in survey results, and thus pet spending is a priority. Consumers are less willing to cut pet spending even when real personal disposable income declines.” …
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Those of us who walked the convention halls at NFDA in Las Vegas recently heard lots of reasons why many in the death care profession were not too optimistic about the immediate future of our businesses. There was lots of talk about inflation causing rising expenses and interest rates taking a bigger chunk…
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At Funeral Director Daily we hear about a lot of funeral homes that change hands. We can’t report on all of them, but some family funeral homes have such unique historical characteristics that we like to pass on the knowledge of those transactions just to keep the historical perspective of funeral homes in America…
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Inflation has set in. . . I recently had to install a new air conditioning condenser to our existing HVAC combination unit. An air conditioning condensor, like a funeral or cremation expense, is something you don’t buy everyday. . . . in fact, maybe less than once a decade. And, when I called…
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Over my years as a funeral director the confidentiality that I kept for my client families was always paramount in my mind. Being a funeral director in a small community just led itself to the fact that “people would ask me questions”. Those questions included things like “How did he die?” or in cases…
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