Products

Are Reinforced Soil Systems the future for cemetery safety and profits?

By Funeral Director Daily / May 12, 2025 /

    Geogrid Reinforced Soil Systems (RSS) have long been used by engineers to provide for stability for retaining walls and highway roadways in North America.  Now there is a company that has turned that engineering for soil stability into products that can by used by the cemetery industry as well.   Here’s what the…

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Better Place Forests to become a Non-Profit

By Funeral Director Daily / May 8, 2025 /

    Better Place Forests is one of those ideas whose time has come.  As a 33-year funeral director who has seen the social mores of Death Care move away from the traditional options during that time, I see where there is a place for ideas like Better Place Forest to catch on with a…

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The Cremation Aftermarket: Here’s a great idea to spur interest and sales

By Funeral Director Daily / April 29, 2025 /

    If you read Funeral Director Daily and listen to me when I have a chance to be a guest on an industry podcast you know that I believe that there is a great, and growing, potential market in what I call the “Cremation Aftermarket”.  My take on the the “Cremation Aftermarket” is that…

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Anthem Partners moves websites to Tribute Technology platforms

By Funeral Director Daily / April 28, 2025 /

In a press release from last week funeral home operator and consolidator Anthem Partners announced that they are “developing a strategic partnership” with Tribute Technology.  And, according to this press release, “As the first step in this partnership, all websites for the Anthem Partners’ locations have been updated and moved to the Tribute Technology platform”.…

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PlotBox receives private equity investment

By Funeral Director Daily / April 25, 2025 /

  We didn’t quite make it through the week without being able to give you another article which again shows a “bullishness” in the greater Death Care profession and industry.  As I’ve noticed several times recently, at the same time that many Death Care retail operators are “skittish” about the future of their business it…

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SCI’s “Non-funeral home” revenue is growing fast. . . What can we learn?

By Funeral Director Daily / April 24, 2025 /

  Service Corporation International (SCI), the largest funeral home operator in North America, has grown its “Consolidated Funeral Revenue” 20.8% from 2019 (the latest year not affected by the pandemic) through 2024.  Their annual financial report lists this number as $1.92 billion in the year 2019 and $2.32 billion in the most recent year of…

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Creedy, Jefferson bringing Blue Ocean Tour to Minneapolis

By Funeral Director Daily / April 3, 2025 /

  Veteran funeral industry analysts and consultants Alan Creedy and Danny Jefferson are bringing their “Experiential Learning” methods to Minneapolis, Minnesota, for two days in May.   This tour from May 12 thru 14 will allow participants, among other things to tour and learn from the experiences of two very different, but successful Death Care…

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Treasured Memories Community Funding can help your client families and your community

By Funeral Director Daily / March 31, 2025 /

  Last week it seemed that every time I turned around I heard a news story about debt. . . . Here’s one that’s titled “Over nine million student loan borrowers could see their credit scores tank as delinquencies are poised to hit record highs“.  Or this one from the Federal Reserve Bank of New…

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Prelude receives another venture investment

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2025 /

  Prelude’s website makes this statement “We created the world’s best in-person selling software that anyone in your funeral home can use to close in just one meeting”.   One year ago on March 8, 2024, Funeral Director Daily published our first article on the company.  That article, that you can read here, was titled,…

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Parting Stone celebrates 10,000 families served, New York Post publishes article on the growing “Cremation Aftermarket”

By Funeral Director Daily / March 27, 2025 /

  Parting Stone, the New Mexico based start-up that takes cremated ash remains and turns them into what they term “Solidified Remains” recently sent out this press release celebrating their 10,000th family served in their short business history.   In the press release the company says this about their achievement, “This milestone marks a significant…

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