Business

The “Everday Hero”within us

By Funeral Director Daily / June 16, 2020 /

It was in church this morning – yes, I’m writing this on Sunday and I was in church attendance today for the third consecutive week – that I caught an idea for a blog article.  We live in Minnesota and church attendance, with certain rules, has been in effect for three weeks.  The spiritual realm…

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Will the “re-opening” of America move the needle on funeral home revenue?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2020 /

Last week has had a lot of COVID world firsts for me.  Let’s see, I left my county for the first time since March, albeit about one block south of the county line to attend a hybrid graduation party.  I also ate inside a restaurant on Wednesday for the first time since March when one…

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COVID-19 and its possible effects on the funeral profession

By Funeral Director Daily / June 11, 2020 /

As I dwell on what is going on currently – such as the market rebounding to its past level, businesses opening up across the country, and school administrators deciding on how to safely open up for classes in the Fall, I cannot help but wonder if the funeral profession will have ramifications because of the…

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Goings on in the independent funeral home world

By Funeral Director Daily / June 10, 2020 /

Sometimes I can get going about a subject and give you my opinion before you have even had a chance to read the article and form an opinion on your own.  Like everybody, my experiences that I have lived slant the opinions that I profess. And, while I grew up and operated as a 4th…

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Is “Old Fashioned” the new technology

By Funeral Director Daily / June 8, 2020 /

A couple of non-death care profession articles that I read this weekend really made me think of the death care profession and where we are moving.  Just to make the record straight before I get into where we might be moving, I want to point out that I think all businesses are perpetually “moving” to…

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Catching up with eziFunerals

By Funeral Director Daily / June 5, 2020 /

There is no doubt that opinions can sway back and forth and can change over time.  I’ve noticed it in my own life. . . . as a young person I pretty much looked at every issue as black or white.  As I’ve aged and had the opportunity to experience more things, meet different people,…

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Moving into niche death care

By Funeral Director Daily / June 4, 2020 /

Today’s Funeral Director Daily feature will have a decidedly Minnesota bent to it.  We are going to tell you of Angela Woosley, a mortician and recently a senior teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota who has decided to leave the academic world and pursue her own business that will provide alternative end-of-life options for…

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Keeping the business flowing

By Funeral Director Daily / June 3, 2020 /

I love the idea of “American ingenuity”.  To me it means the thought process that is developed to keep things moving ahead even when the system to do so has been upended.  And, around the world this Spring, the system has truly been upended with the advent of the COVID-19 situation. However, if you are…

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Survey says funeral trends changing

By Funeral Director Daily / May 29, 2020 /

Cision PR Newswire published the results of the Foresight Companies 2020 Funeral and Cemetery Behavior Study on Wednesday.  You can see the Cision article here.  In it they mention that this survey was based on 2,548 respondents “drawn from a nationally representative panel sample of U.S. residents.” Chris Cruger, Partner and Chief Operation Officer at…

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Random thoughts: Building market share through preneed. . . .CBS Interactive’s “The Future of Funerals’ series

By Funeral Director Daily / May 28, 2020 /

For almost 40 years our funeral home has had advertising for preneed clientele based on the premise, “Like an umbrella in a sudden shower, some things are good to have before they are needed”.  In different ways on radio, print, and online we go on to explain that preneed funeral insurance is one of those…

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