Business

The perception of our integrity

By Funeral Director Daily / December 15, 2020 /

“Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio”.  Those were the lyrics of the Simon and Garfunkel song “Mrs. Robinson” released in 1968.  The country was in the summer of a presidential election and was mired in a controversial war in Viet Nam at the time.  The lyrics harkened back to a simple time in America. I…

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Will we see shifts in funeral home employment post-pandemic?

By Funeral Director Daily / December 14, 2020 /

I’ll tell you right away that this is one of those articles I write that you probably won’t get any answers from.  As a matter of fact, I hope you go away from today’s article asking questions and thinking about the future.  It’s the kind of article that I like writing, though . . .…

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Renew your commitment

By Funeral Director Daily / December 11, 2020 /

Funeral directors are interesting creatures.  We live to serve. . . . that doesn’t happen in every profession. I told my wife the other day as we live in this pandemic world every body seems to have all the answers.  Politicians are acting as scientists, scientists are acting like politicians, parents know more than the…

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Building brand awareness, perception, and image

By Funeral Director Daily / December 9, 2020 /

So many times when I’m writing a an article I find something in that article that jogs my mind about another aspect of funeral service, or business, or life in general.  In yesterday’s article I mentioned “Top of Mind Awareness” as something that your business or your brand wants your potential customers to have. I…

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Death care, change, transparency, and the consumer perspective

By Funeral Director Daily / December 7, 2020 /

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to read two different articles with two different perspectives of the death care business.  One article brought out criticisms of our professions that some in the consumer world have held since the days of Jessica Mitford and her 1963 book entitled “The American Way of Death”.  That article,…

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Weekend Edition. . . milestones, cleaning off the desk. . .some information for our readers

By Funeral Director Daily / December 4, 2020 /
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I’m not a bah, humbug type of guy. . . .I actually love the holidays. . .all of them.  However, shopping for a Christmas tree, dragging it home, and getting it set up is not one of my favorite things to do.  I should be grateful because Angie does all the hard work like decorating…

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Funeral Home Budgeting — The revenue side

By Funeral Director Daily / December 2, 2020 /

As we told you yesterday, we are re-running our budgeting articles that received such good response from funeral home operators in November 2019.  Budgeting is, well, budgeting, but there are always new wrinkles to account for. While we have, for our example,  simply delineated our revenue numbers by cremation case or earth burial case, if…

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Funeral Home Budgeting. . . the expense side

By Funeral Director Daily / December 1, 2020 /

I’m taking the time today and tomorrow to re-run articles from last November on funeral home budgeting.  I posted these articles last year and had many positive comments and since we have many new readers since then, I figure that maybe my thoughts on budgeting — both the expense side and the revenue side —…

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A couple of choices for future success in the death care space

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2020 /

Now that I’ve finished reporting on the quarterly reports of the large “established” companies in the death care realm, I thought it would be interesting to give my insight on a couple of  companies  that I think have a great potential to  “grow” into larger companies or services in the future. And while Tribute Technology…

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Give Thanks this Thanksgiving

By Funeral Director Daily / November 24, 2020 /

I’m kind of tired of the word “unprecedented”.  It seems every time that I turn around someone is using that term in relation to the world and times we have been living in since February in the United States.  Yes, 2020 is different, but I’m not so sure that it is “unprecedented” for the upstaging…

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