death care

Legacy.com exceeding growth expectations

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2022 /

According to SimilarWeb, Legacy.com had its website visited over 49 million times in April 2022 and ranked as the #1 website in its category of interest, Community and Society, in the United States.  Again, according to SimilarWeb, the company increased its reach by 4.77% over the month of March 2022. With those kind of numbers…

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The article from “D” Magazine

By Funeral Director Daily / June 22, 2022 /

In writing Funeral Director Daily I take pride in keeping up with what is happening in the Death Care profession and industry.  And, even though the occupation and the choices it has for consumers faced with death of a loved one moves along at a fairly slow and methodical pace, there are changes to keep…

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What everybody has been reading on Funeral Director Daily

By Funeral Director Daily / June 21, 2022 /

We’ve burned through another month of feature stories at Funeral Director Daily.  If you have missed some of our feature stories, here are the stories that are readers viewed most often from May 16 through June 15. StoneMor agrees to Axar Capital Management buyout. Recognizing the “Cusp of Change” Security National’s 1st Quarter —  Memorial…

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Arbor Memorial named one of Canada’s “Best Managed Companies”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 21, 2022 /

There is an insurance company that used to use the slogan “The Quiet Company”.  That company was, and still is, known as one of the most successful life insurance companies in America. . . . The “Quiet Company” claim came, at least to my way of thinking, from the idea that they used captive agents…

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Producer Price Index just rose 10.8%. . how’s your business handling it?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 17, 2022 /

Unless you have been living on the Space Station you’ve noticed prices in almost all things are moving up.  Housing prices, gasoline, groceries, service work, and even that cup of coffee or latte that you buy at Starbucks.  I’m old enough to have lived through this before in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. . .…

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What’s your leadership style? Does it work in this century?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 16, 2022 /

Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater, the largest hedge fund in the world. He’s one of the 100 richest people on Earth.  Here’s what he says of leaders:  “Most people at the top of their profession made it there because they must be very smart and very capable. Of course,…

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Do funeral rituals signal a cultural shift or will our culture change our rituals?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2022 /

“Humans are into rituals. Birth rituals, marriage rituals, naming rituals—each of these and more are integral to the lives of most people. One type of ritual, perhaps, is most common of all: death rituals.” That’s the first “tease” line for a very interesting podcast I listened to earlier this week.  Here’s the next line, “On…

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Seeking Alpha opines on Park Lawn Corporation

By Funeral Director Daily / June 15, 2022 /

Last Friday when Funeral Director Daily published an article entitled “Is it time to buy funeral home stocks” unknown to us Seeking Alpha author Mat Litalien was publishing an article about Park Lawn Corporation.  It was entitled “Death and Taxes” and gives a synopsis of Park Lawn Corporation and he concludes his article by saying…

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Creating Death Care “Search Ads” that get the click

By Funeral Director Daily / June 14, 2022 /

Every death care company is looking for ways to draw potential consumers to their online presence in order to engage them before they become clients of another death care company.  We decided to ask industry expert Welton Hong for some tips on how funeral homes can get that “extra reach” that may be able to…

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Titan Casket secures funding round

By Funeral Director Daily / June 13, 2022 /

According to this release from BusinessWire direct-to-consumer company Titan Casket has secured $3.5 million in seed funding to expand its operations in the United States.  The round of funding was led by Reformation Partners. The release continues as it says, “As Titan continues to expand its product and service categories with the addition of eco-friendly…

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