Every funeral home and cemetery in North America is looking at ways to increase revenues as case mix decidedly moves to lower cost cremation and memorial services from the traditional casketed burial cases. One of the ways to increase that revenue is to offer several different ways to memorialize cremated remains. . .…
I recently saw a video where Johnson Consulting CEO Jake Johnson was interviewed by Disrupt Media’s Ryan Thogmartin. It was fairly brief but in watching it I came away with a couple of insights from Jake Johnson that may be of value to those of you who operate funeral homes and/or are owners…
Today is Monday, September 11. First of all, when I think of September 11 I think of where I was and what I felt like on that day 22 years ago — September 11, 2001 — when America was attacked. It is a day that is seared into my mind. . .…
If you Google the phrase “Can’t see the forest for the trees” and ask the meaning of it, here’s what comes back, “we sometimes cannot see situations as they really are while we are in the midst of them. In short, we lose our perspective when we are too heavily invested in a…
Our friends at “Two Guys and a Question” podcast, funeral service experts Alan Creedy and Danny Jefferson released a 7-minute podcast the other day that really hit home to me. Creedy and Jefferson brought up the idea of “Radical Hospitality”. You may not know what that is, but after listening to the…
BUSINESS
Will “young people” bring back the funeral
Funerals, cremations, memorial services, and other Death Care purchases by the consumer are not done in a vacuum. Consumers make all kinds of decisions on purchases with all kinds of products and services and…
Here’s some news funeral home owners won’t want to hear. . .
It had not really occurred to me with everything else that is going on in our economy. However, one of the expenses that is necessary for a funeral home with a fleet of…
Viva Las Vegas!!!!. . . Impressions from the NFDA convention floor
I recently returned from Las Vegas where I spent a couple of days attending seminars, walking the Convention Expo floor, and just catching up with old friends. For me, “Vegas” is a fun…
FINANCE
Park Lawn Corporation discussed in Seeking Alpha article
Part of our mission at Funeral Director Daily is to help the individual funeral home owner or operator understand all facets of their business better and in more depth so that they have the…
Seeking Alpha article explains Carriage Services
About three weeks ago on August 16, 2023, an author at Seeking Alpha published this article on funeral home and cemetery operator Carriage Services. It is an interesting article that you should read…
Park Lawn adds to Sioux City locations
It was back in March 2023 when Funeral Director Daily published this article about Park Lawn Corporation (PLC) acquiring the Meyer Brothers Funeral Homes’ five locations in the state-line cities of Sioux…
REGULATIONS
Global Green Burial Alliance to form. . . .offers introductory webinar today
Funeral Director Daily (FDD) was recently notified that a group has been working to bring together what they call the “Global Green Burial Alliance” (GGBA). FDD received a statement out of Australia earlier…
Federal Trade Commission’s review of the “Funeral Rule” marches on
Tomorrow, Thursday, September 7, 2023, you can join a public workshop led by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding the new proposals to the “Funeral Rule”. The workshop, taking place in Washington, DC,…
Paying for your funeral with your HSA. Why not?
Last December I was welcomed into the world of Medicare. Prior to that I had either had my health insurance paid for by the business I was working for or, since I sold our…
CEMETERY
Global Green Burial Alliance to form. . . .offers introductory webinar today
Funeral Director Daily (FDD) was recently notified that a group has been working to bring together what they call the “Global Green Burial Alliance” (GGBA). FDD received a statement out of Australia earlier…
A solution at the cemetery
According to this article in the Sarnia Observer Harold Sonnenberg has been pretty busy as the superintendent of Greenwood Cemetery in Waterford, Ontario, Canada. What’s happened there happens all over North America…
Permanent Memorialization: What does it mean in today’s world?
On the same day last week three different articles or press releases came to my inbox and those pieces of literature formed a mental Venn Diagram for me about cremation and memorialization. The articles,…
CREMATION
Private Equity claims another death care provider
While most of us have been anticipating some news on the acquisition front from Australia and the proposed takeover of InvoCare by TPG Capital or waiting for some news on the North American…
Permanent Memorialization: What does it mean in today’s world?
On the same day last week three different articles or press releases came to my inbox and those pieces of literature formed a mental Venn Diagram for me about cremation and memorialization. The articles,…
Is your message reaching the “Right” audience?
I think every funeral home owner and marketing directors of larger funeral home, crematory, and cemetery operations by now understands that social media has some say in how people perceive your business is…
PRENEED
Are funeral homes “underestimating” the value of convenience to our consumers?
I’ve never been a procrastinator about planning or getting things done. However, the world around me has changed over the last couple of decades and because of that, and today’s convenience in purchasing, …
Paying for your funeral with your HSA. Why not?
Last December I was welcomed into the world of Medicare. Prior to that I had either had my health insurance paid for by the business I was working for or, since I sold our…
Does dementia reduce “funeral spend”
“Out of sight, out of mind”. That’s a refrain I’ve heard often. Generally, it refers to when you have not seen somebody or something for a length of time then that person…
PRODUCTS
More from the floor. . . . Supplier news from the NFDA Convention
My favorite time annually at the National Funeral Directors Convention (NFDA) is when I get to roam the Expo Hall among all of Death Care’s suppliers and just visit. Sometimes it is about new…
SCI building funeral home on cemetery grounds in Virginia
This article from a recent edition of the Roanoke Times of Virginia mentions two funeral homes being built within a half-mile of each other in that community. At Funeral Director Daily we found that…
Global Green Burial Alliance to form. . . .offers introductory webinar today
Funeral Director Daily (FDD) was recently notified that a group has been working to bring together what they call the “Global Green Burial Alliance” (GGBA). FDD received a statement out of Australia earlier…
