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I’m a history buff and I love to look back and learn what has happened in our country. I’ve found that many times a “precipitator” happens and that event or group of events causes history to happen. I was running on my treadmill the other morning watching CNBC for business news and Fox News for…
I read an interesting article the other day from the Washington Post that you can read here about the death of a 77-year old man in Washington state. It is an interesting article about a family’s decision to skip the funeral home and bring the man back to his home for three days of visitation…
Today we bring you this great human interest story of 21 year old New Zealand funeral director and embalmer Ethyn Milliken. In today’s world where it is sometimes hard to find employees in the funeral profession you will see from this story that great future funeral directors may be just around the corner or that…
Some of the best ideas for the business end of the funeral profession that I received came from other industries. I also think that you can learn from other countries and cultures. In this article from the South China Morning Post Chinese funeral home company Fu Shou Yuan looks towards the future and says that…
For the last half century the funeral industry has seen tremendous growth of multiple firm businesses getting that growth not necessarily thru growing sales, but by acquisition of other firms. Firms that wanted to grow by acquisition had to be ready when a firm from down the road came up for sale, which in many…
We saw a couple news items that were fairly unique as to their content and thought that we would bring our readers both of them today with very little commentary on our part. The first item that we found concerned a funeral home in Nova Scotia, Canada, where the public service is warning against crematoriums…
I saw an article earlier this week from Seeking Alpha that you can read here that retailer Nordstrom’s sales increased year over year for the year 2018 by 2.3%. What really hit me about the number though was as I read farther into the article I found out that Nordstrom’s brick and mortar stores suffered…
The common held belief in the funeral and cremation services business is that people will always need death care professionals to execute the lawful disposition of the deceased. However, another trend that has been taking place over the past ten years is that a larger percentage of the client families that you serve will be…
It’s Monday morning and I thought I would bring you some news that hit the wire over the weekend. Nothing new about this news. . . if anything it continues to reinforce the facts that cremation is increasing, people are still paranoid about funeral homes, and less caskets are being sold in America. Here’s is…
While I was researching for articles for today’s post it just hit me as I looked at the articles and I realized that just about everyday some funeral director is written up in their local newspaper because what they have meant to their community. Most of us are happy to be in the background just…
