death care

Acquisition vs. Retention. . . .where to concentrate?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 5, 2021 /

It’s an age old debate that is carried on even in MBA classes at major colleges.  . . . . .Where are your advertising dollars spent best — on Customer Acquisition or on Customer Retention?  A local issue in a concern outside of the death care industry had my friends and I debating it over…

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Do we still “Do the Right Thing” simply to “Do the Right Thing”

By Funeral Director Daily / October 4, 2021 /

I’ve been around the death care business for a long time and I’m certain that I didn’t always make the correct decision in the many hundreds of decisions that I had to make every month.  However, I can tell you that I always wanted to “Do the Right Thing.”  And, the times when I realized…

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Will Axar take StoneMor private?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 1, 2021 /

As you can see from this Yahoo Finance article, Axar Capital Management has sent StoneMor Inc. a letter expressing “an interest in pursuing discussions concerning strategic alternatives that may be beneficial to the Company and its various stakeholders.”  As you may know, and according to E-Trade, Axar Capital Management currently owns 88.6 million of the 118…

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The story behind the anti-vaccination funeral home campaign hoax

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2021 /

Last weekend people in Charlotte, North Carolina, had the opportunity to see a truck drive around the area with this message on the sides and rear, “Don’t get vaccinated: Wilmore Funeral Home“.  According to this article from CNet, the truck sparked a viral buzz. Turns out that there is no Wilmore Funeral Home and if…

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This is the week

By Funeral Director Daily / September 27, 2021 /

This is the week that Congress should act on the Biden Administration’s key piece of legislation, the $3.5 trillion “Human Infrastructure” bill.  Regardless of what happens or how you feel about that bill, I thought it would be interesting to look back on how death care has fared from the other two large social bills…

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The bartender becomes a mortician

By Funeral Director Daily / September 24, 2021 /

I don’t know if it is just me or others see it too.  For years funeral directors seemed to work in anonymity, but when someone called us we were always there to answer.  However, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I seem to think that funeral directors and morticians are finally seen in our society for…

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The FedEx strategy shift. . where do funeral homes go?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 23, 2021 /

Editor’s Note:   For as yet unknown technical reasons, our daily article was not sent out earlier this morning.  Sorry. . here it is. All things are created equal. . . . until they’re not.  In the death care business I’m not so sure all of the calls we get at our funeral homes are created…

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Natural Organic Reduction now operating in Colorado

By Funeral Director Daily / September 22, 2021 /

According to this article from U.S. News & World Report, the process of natural organic reduction or what is commonly referred by many consumers as “human composting” is now available in the state of Colorado.  Legalized by the state over a year ago with a September 7, 2021, legal start date, at least one death…

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Don’t let inflation leave your business behind

By Funeral Director Daily / September 21, 2021 /

The time to set your budgets for 2022 is fast approaching.  To make your business turn into profits, and your work worthwhile, it is imperative that you realistically look at the services you provide and the mix of those services so that you can have an accurate idea of the revenue you are going to…

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More companies hope to cash in on the changing face of Death Care

By Funeral Director Daily / September 17, 2021 /

I recently read this article where Bank of America has profiled 14 future “moonshot” technologies that they believe could offer vast wealth to those who are lucky enough to invest in them.  In reading that article, I realized that, to a certain extent we have, maybe not moonshot technologies, but at least planetary technologies in…

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