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With the Christmas holiday coming up this weekend Funeral Director Daily will not be publishing on Thursday or Friday of this week. As usual, there is plenty in our industry to tell you about, but with the limited days and multiple stories we thought we would just use this afternoon to give you some teasers…
Read MoreMy father died 43 years ago. I was a teenager. He was 58 years old and a prominent business man in his small community. I have no photos of the large event that was his visitation and funeral. I’ve got a newspaper article and two images inside my head. . . one image is that…
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Probably more so than I can ever remember, funeral directors, funeral homes, and the North American funeral is being written about in 2020. And, in general, the topics seem to be all related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems to me that the topics are funeral homes being extremely busy, families dealing with death without…
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A couple of weeks ago Funeral Director Daily did a couple of articles dealing with working on an operating budget for funeral homes. We looked at both the income and the expense sides and told you of how we budgeted over the years for profit. . . .even if our call numbers came in lower…
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“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…
Read MoreI’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 . . .…
Read MoreFuneral 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…
Read MoreSo 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…
Read MoreOver 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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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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