Business
Just about every day when we peruse articles to opine on we can find articles that pertain to cemeteries and crematories and the problems they seem to cause to just everyday people. You might argue that some of these issues are pretty petty and could be easily fixed, however, to the consumers they bother they…
I think even those of us who grew up in the world before smart phones and the internet understand that funeral homes can gain in their marketing efforts by being actively involved in the social media world. However, common sense dictates that marketing dollars should be spread around. . .even to the point of doing…
A couple of things happened on Thursday (yesterday) that put the idea for this article in my mind. First of all, I was involved in a brain-storming session that centered partly on how to reduce tuition costs for college students. And then, later in the afternoon I was watching the business channel, CNBC, as I…
Part of researching what is happening in the death care industry is the fun of just finding out what is out there in the world. And, I’ve found that some of those who work in the profession are just the nicest people around. Part of the game is to make a living doing what you…
Excuse me for doing a little reminiscing today, but today (July 16) would be my father’s 101st birthday. I lost my father to a sudden heart attack – while he was servicing a funeral – on Easter weekend 1977, 42 years ago, when I was a teenager. Life has certainly moved forward since then, but…
Today we bring you two articles about funeral homes and real estate that have been in the news lately. We have written many times about zoning issues for funeral homes, crematories, and cemeteries, but today one of the articles actually tells of a funeral home that residents do not want to see demolished and the…
We’ve all seen it on television — the urban death scene where the coroner pulls up with his staff in the coroner van ready to remove the body from the scene to the morgue. Of course, metropolitan areas have professionally paid coroners, deputy coroners, and staff available to make these removals. I read this recent…
Last week I read this article from the Minneapolis Star Tribune focused on the Fortune 500 company, General Mills. General Mills is a Minneapolis based company – and has been for a long time – which leads to much media coverage for them in the state of Minnesota. The article pertained to the fact that…
From time to time we like to feature businesses who for some reason or other have an interesting story to tell. Today, we bring you the story of the Shafer Monument Company of Mitchell, South Dakota. As we move into the 2nd half of 2019 the Shafer family is celebrating their 100th year of business. …
When I was growing up and in elementary school in the 1960’s there was a saying about Presidential elections. That saying was, “As Maine goes, so goes the nation”. What it meant was that the state of Maine had an uncanny ability to vote with the winning candidate in so many elections. In today’s left…
