death care

Denial leading to desire

By Funeral Director Daily / July 7, 2021 /

Remember when you were younger and wanted something. . . .but mom or dad said you could not have it?  Did it make you more determined to want whatever that item was? Over the long holiday weekend I saw a couple of items in the news that made me think of that long lost feeling. …

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The sky is not falling

By Funeral Director Daily / July 1, 2021 /

I was somewhat amused as I watched this television news report from ABC News 11 in North Carolina.  The story is entitled, “For the first time there are more cremations than burials in North Carolina:  What is behind the change?”  I wasn’t amused due to the story line, what somewhat amused me is the anchor…

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Learning from the Experts: Welton Hong of Ring Ring Marketing

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2021 /

From time to time, Funeral Director Daily asks experts in their field to author articles that we believe may be helpful to our readers.  In today’s world virtually every funeral home has a website.  However, having a website is not adequate anymore. . . . . knowing what that website can do for your business…

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Matthews increasingly serving the profession. . . . and the living

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2021 /

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently published this article on Matthews International entitled “From tombstones to fuel cells, Matthews International wants to leave its mark on clean mobility“.  The article is a great read on Matthews and reminded me that this “quiet company” of funeral service continues to make a difference every day, not only in the…

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Funeral Director Daily talks about “Watching your costs to hold on to Profits”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2021 /

Funeral Director Daily CEO and Editor Tom Anderson appears on FD Talks – Funeral Director Life’s recurring discussion of topics of interest to those in the Death Care profession.  In Episode #11 of FD Talks you can see and hear Host Rob Davison and Tom Anderson break down inflation in the funeral profession, provide solutions…

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Foundation Partners adds to growing Colorado number of facilities

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2021 /

Earlier this week Foundation Partners Group (FPG) announced that they have increased their location count to 12 in the state of Colorado by purchasing the entities affiliated with Seitz Funeral Services.  In the press release which you can read here, Foundation Partners Group announced that the Seitz Funeral Services group includes Adamson Life Celebration Home,…

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Prime Day ended yesterday. What can we learn from Amazon

By Funeral Director Daily / June 23, 2021 /

Amazon’s Prime Day concluded Tuesday in what was the 7th annual event for the company.  My understanding is that Prime Day was dreamed up as a 20th Anniversary celebration of the company in 2015.  2020 sales for the company in what is actually a two-day event (Monday/Tuesday) were reported as $10.4 billion and estimates are…

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Government Regulator: Funeral directors must make prices clearer

By Funeral Director Daily / June 22, 2021 /

In the summer of 2020, Great Britain’s Competition and Market Authority (CMA) investigated the death care business sector and one statement that was made was this, “some funeral directors were providing unacceptable low levels of care of the deceased”.  Couple that with the fact that, according to SunLife’s latest cost of dying report, funeral costs…

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Is now the best time ever to build market share thru Preneed?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 21, 2021 /

Our funeral home will celebrate 150 years of service in 2022.  However, we have really only helped families pre-arrange and pre-finance funerals since about 1964 — about 60 years.  And, in those early years, it really wasn’t about pre-planning and pre-financing consumer funerals, but about setting up payment options or trusts for those helped through…

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News you can Use

By Funeral Director Daily / June 18, 2021 /

In our continuing desire to keep funeral service professionals up to date on what is happening in the industry, we bring you these sources of information which may be of information to you.  Have a great weekend. NFDA “A Brush with Death” podcast series —  Podcast #25 brings you the “Class of 2021”.  In this…

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