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This information (with photos) from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery announces the opening of their recently completed Gower Mausoleum. Here’s a paragraph from the cemetery’s recent announcement: “Hollywood Forever is honored to announce the opening of the Gower Mausoleum, a new architectural landmark in Los Angeles and the tallest mausoleum in the United States.…
Boosting Your Funeral Home’s Online Presence: An Action Plan for Content That Engages and Builds Trust In today’s digital world, a funeral home website is far more than a static brochure. It’s the front door of your business for many families — the first place they turn when they need information, reassurance and…
The question posed in the headline is interesting. What is happening in Great Britain may be a precursor of what could happen in North America about the billing amount to consumers for the growing trend of Direct Cremations. A recent 2025 survey of 200 funeral directors and 6,000 adults showed that Direct Cremations…
Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm that provides a wide range of products and services, including investment banking, wealth management, consumer banking, and brokerage services, recently made this comment in an article, “Life insurance companies have rapidly evolved into influential players in the credit markets. Their growing footprint is not merely a function…
Just the other morning I read two articles from Yahoo Finance which showed a couple of trends happening in American society. The first trend can be read about in this article titled “There are more Americans out of work than their are jobs open for the first time since 2021″. And the…
An April cyberattack which you can read about here probably cost the parent company of Great Britain’s largest funeral home operator, Co-op Funeralcare, about a US$ 107 million profit swing but didn’t seem to affect the number of funeral plans sold by the company as they increased over 17% from the previous year. …
Tomorrow is the last day of the federal government’s fiscal year. That is not necessarily a big deal except that the new federal budget year begins on Wednesday and as I write this on Sunday no agreement to fund the federal government of the United States is in place moving forward. If there is…
With all that is happening in our econony it is very difficult to get an idea of where that economy is heading. With all of the different indexes in place today and many seeming to go in opposite directions it is hard to get a barometer of where the United States economy is…
Okay — that headline is somewhat of a trick question. I’m guessing that your funeral home is “streaming” services. . . . . but, are you “streaming” in your advertising and branding strategy? As of March 2025 “streaming” represented 43.8% of overall TV watch time in the United States. And, it is…
Where people are living has an incredible affect on the number of families a local funeral provider will serve in a given time period. Today’s article will introduce you to some graphics and articles about how demographics are shifting in the United States. And, it is really important to know these demographic shifts if…
