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With the Christmas holiday coming up this weekend Funeral Director Daily will not be publishing on Thursday or Friday of this week. As usual, there is plenty in our industry to tell you about, but with the limited days and multiple stories we thought we would just use this afternoon to give you some teasers…
Read MoreMy father died 43 years ago. I was a teenager. He was 58 years old and a prominent business man in his small community. I have no photos of the large event that was his visitation and funeral. I’ve got a newspaper article and two images inside my head. . . one image is that…
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A couple of weeks ago Funeral Director Daily did a couple of articles dealing with working on an operating budget for funeral homes. We looked at both the income and the expense sides and told you of how we budgeted over the years for profit. . . .even if our call numbers came in lower…
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I’ve learned, and am not surprised, that there are companies out there that really understand that the coronavirus pandemic has been detrimental in many ways. I never really thought about it but for those of us who like to get our continuing education hours in a live setting, we realize that those settings have been…
Read MoreNow that I’ve finished reporting on the quarterly reports of the large “established” companies in the death care realm, I thought it would be interesting to give my insight on a couple of companies that I think have a great potential to “grow” into larger companies or services in the future. And while Tribute Technology…
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On Friday we published an article about funeral FinTech and software firm Tribute Technology fetching a reported “more than a billion” dollar amount when sold. That same day we learned in this article that an Idaho funeral tech firm had just received a $4 million venture fund investment from Pelion Venture Partners based in Utah.…
Read MoreWe are in the period of public companies reporting their 3rd Quarter results to the world and it is only a couple of weeks before Hillenbrand, parent company of Batesville Casket Company, and Matthews International, parent company of Aurora Casket Company will give us those results. As most of you know, those businesses have generally…
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A little over a year ago Funeral Director Daily brought you this article introducing Better Place Forests to our readers. At that time we said of the idea, “Think of it. . . increased cremation and now a place – like cemeteries of old – where today’s consumer will feel comfortable placing the remains of…
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It is not everyday that a new category for the consumer to choose from comes along. A new category has to be so unique that while it may have other ideas to compete with it, it is somewhat all by itself in the product or service it offers to the consumer. What is interesting is…
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