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Editor’s Note: In keeping with Funeral Director Daily’s recent trend at year-end we are bringing you more information on what to look for as we move into 2023. The following is from (with permission) the Foundation Partners Group (FPG) website and is an interview with FPG’s Zach Mayer, the head of the company’s Nationwide…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Today’s article comes from the blog at OneRoom. It comes on the heels of a recent Funeral Director Daily article by Jake Johnson entitled “A funeral home owner’s guide to prepping for 2023″. Here’s OneRoom’s article on “Adapting to Change in 2023“: As our environment continues to experience frequent change, safeguarding…
Read MoreToday marks the beginning of the Christmas week. For many of us that means that we will be joyously reunited with family members we don’t get to see very often. However, for almost three million American families it will be the first Christmas with a loved one missing from the celebration. For them, it will…
Read MoreI was on my way to a local chapter board meeting of Junior Achievement on Friday morning and listening to business radio. It was at that time that the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the month of November was announced as well as was the PPI for the service industry. Just for the record, the…
Read MorePart of what I’ve always done is watch the trends. I wasn’t the first to put a crematory in my funeral home, but I did see the trends and was the first in my county to do so. I also wasn’t the first funeral home to add staff to concentrate on preneed funeral planning and…
Read MoreI was a little bit flattered and humbled when death care experts Alan Creedy and Danny Jefferson picked up Funeral Director Daily’s article on the upcoming process of “retaining and modernizing” the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “Funeral Rule” as the topic for their latest “Two Guys and a Question” podcast. You can click here to…
Read MoreThere was a time when if you needed information on a task or a service you went direct to the source to find the information needed. Remember, when your watch didn’t work you would take it to the local jeweler to diagnose the issue. . . . Or if the electronic device you just purchased…
Read MoreIf you read all of the articles that I do while I’m doing my research you would notice that a great many articles get written on what I’ll call the staffing crisis in funeral homes around the country. And, while not really contradictory, they seem to be on one of three subjects. Those subjects are…
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