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An NFDA Convention Discussion Issue One of the issues that we have in America right now is that utility companies need to “store electricity” to help meet peak demand periods. Here’s how a recent article in the Wall Street Journal explained why this is so imprtant to utility companies at this time, “Battery…
Today’s Article includes an NFDA Convention Preview Who says Death Care is not “innovative”? Just this week I learned that ASD – Answering Service for Directors was named to Fortune‘s 2026 list of America’s Most Innovative Companies. This honor puts them right up there with Apple and SpaceX in a grouping of…
“Revenue per Case” (RpC) is a very important metric in your funeral home to illustrate how much money comes into the your funeral home for every death call you care for. The goal, over time and including periodic price increases, is to increase that metric year over year. As you are well…
I recently learned from a press release from PlotBox that the company intends to “showcase their end-to-end Funeral Home software, built for the complexity of modern deathcare, at this year’s NFDA International Convention and Expo in Charlotte, October 25 thru 28.” According to the press release, that you can read here, “PlotBox…
I’ve had a lot of experience during my time as a Board member and Chairman of Senior Living companies extending “service lines” in order to build business. And, I think part of the future of Death Care will include present operating companies expanding “service lines” to become larger companies. In the Senior Living…
Back in August the Worcester (Maryland) County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved Natural Organic Reduction (NOR) firm Earth Burial’s request to spread NOR soil on a 14-acre property in the county. According to this recent article from the Ocean City (MD) Today-Dispatch, the Worcester County Attorney has now filed a petition for judicial…
Back in 1982 when John Naisbitt’s bestselling book, Megatrends, was flying off the shelves (it was before Amazon so it wasn’t being ordered by mail) the book commented that Americans were “drowning in information but starved for knowledge”. As we get deeper and deeper into what Naisbitt coined “The Information Age” that thought process…
Endswell, the 2022 Death Care start-up that brands itself as “A modern funeral home, is expanding their services to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. And, it won’t be your mom and dad’s funeral home. According to this article in Chapelboro.com, the company has bought ground-floor space in a street-front condominium building where they plan to…
Recently I received a press release from Parting Stone, the solidified remains company, that enlightened me as to some of the reasons so many survivors continue to hold on to cremated remains in the home rather than pursue permanent placement for them. I’ve always thought that the main reason that families continue…
According to this recent article from the Institute for Justice the District Court of Oklahoma County has ruled that Casket of Honors owners Candice Mentink and Todd Collard may proceed with their case against the Oklahoma Funeral Board for the right to sell caskets in Oklahoma without a valid Oklahoma funeral directors license. …
