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Alan Wolfelt is one of the great death care eductors of this generation and when I get a chance to read his works I always learn something. In the latest edition of NFDA’s The Director magazine Wolfelt authors an article entitled “Efficiency does not equal Effectiveness”. In that article Wolfelt makes the case…
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We are just a weekend away from honoring our veterans with Memorial Day celebrations across the country. In word we received last month we learned that Musgrove Family Mortuaries and Cemeteries was getting a head-start on the celebration by announcing a new “Court of Honor” to “to remember and respect Oregonians who served…
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According to at least one website, George Gershwin’s 1934 song “Summertime” is the most covered song in the world. And, with Memorial Day just around the corner the un-official opening of Summer is upon us. Here’s a website where you can see the history of this song and how it has been performed over…
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Funeral directing company A.W. Lymn of Nottinghamshire, Great Britain, has been giving the green light to construct an ancient style facility for the disposition of cremated human remains. As this article maintains, “they have been granted permission for the first and only modern barrow site in the East Midlands”. (Editor’s Note: I…
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One of my friends attended the latest convention of the International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral Association (ICCFA) and reported to me that “there were a crazy amount of post-cremation product vendors exhibiting available options”. And, sometimes when I walk into arrangement rooms where many post-cremation options are available I get a sense of how big…
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Apple has been seeing sales of its iPhone declining. The product, which makes up about 1/2 of the company’s sales, dropped in sales revenue another 10% in the last quarter according to Apple’s 2Q Financial Report which came out last week. According to this article however, Apple had a jump of…
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A pager that allowed me out of the funeral home. . . .telephone transfers that allowed death calls to be “transfered” to one’s home phones. That’s about the extent of technology when I started in the funeral business. . . Oh, I suppose you also could consider electric typewriters and better carbon to…
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Again today I’m building off some of the impressions that my friend, Rolf Gutknecht of LA Ads – A Marketing Agency had during his time at the recent ICCFA Convention in Tampa. As mentioned in yesterday’s article, Rolf puts out a little paper titled “Insights” which included his impressions of the convention. Today,…
Read MoreA recent press release from Batesville give us information that the company has been named to “Newsweek’s list of Most Trustworthy Companies in America for 2024.” According to the press release “Batesville achieved a top 25 ranking in the Consumer Goods category, alongside a variety of global brand leaders, coming in at number…
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It was announced in this press release from last week that C&J Financial would be expanding by “becom(ing) the exclusive insurance assignments partner for Tribute Technology, taking over operations previously managed by the Tribute Insurance Assignments division”. Jamie Meredith, Executive Vice President of C&J Financial, made this prepared comment in the press release,…
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