Preneed
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…
Read MoreAn 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. …
Read MoreAs so often happens in my world I’ve had some real life and/or businesses experiences or discussions in the last week or ten days that has made me think about Death Care. And, specifically to today’s article, about how the acquisition solicitation of client families to choose your specific Death Care operation for…
Read MoreOkay — 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…
Read MoreIt’s s question that I have a hard time answering or getting an answer to. The question being, “What is the number of preneed policies a funeral home needs to write to move market share forward?” Or even more basic, “What is the average ratio between going-concern funeral homes as it comes to…
Read MoreIt’s the end of summer in Minnesota and lots of our friends get ready to embark on the journey to warmer climates soon. So, it is a good time to say good-bye to our summer Minnesotans and wish them well until we see them again next Spring. Angie and I did that last…
Read MoreThere’s always a risk when a funeral home firm acquires another location. There’s even more risk when a funeral home acquires a location that has had its license suspended by a state board of funeral directors. However, as you can read and view in this report from Pennsylvania’s WTAJ-TV News that’s exactly…
Read MoreI think that there still is a discussion about “Guaranteed” vs. “Non-Guaranteed” preneed funeral contracts. Although, I would argue that for the past decade or so the vast majority of preneed accounts sold by funeral homes are “Guaranteed”. By that I mean that the services and merchandise is picked out at pre-arrangement time…
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