funeral business

Do you know the results

By Funeral Director Daily / February 12, 2021 /

Many of the decisions that have been made over the years in business have been made by “gut feel”.  Lots of business people, including those in the funeral business, have made lots of money by following their hunches.  I was a little bit like that as in the 1980’s I didn’t have a lot of…

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The Pandemic and its effect on Death Care around the world

By Funeral Director Daily / February 11, 2021 /

We touched on the subject last week when we did an article questioning how some in authority view funeral directors and other death care professionals in light of large financial fines for a service going over the allotted number of allowed mourners in Great Britain and the death care professionals in Ohio trying to be…

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Mark Cuban: “. . .the grief industry is very much old school”

By Funeral Director Daily / February 10, 2021 /

Back in October 2019 on an episode the television production of Shark Tank, serial investor and billionaire Mark Cuban became invested in a death care company.  It was at that time that Cuban invested $600,000 for a 9% share of the “cremation carbon to diamond” company Eterneva.  That $600,000 investment gave the company a valuation…

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Manufacturing shortages/delays. . . social distance funeral home fines

By Funeral Director Daily / February 8, 2021 /

Over the weekend we came across a couple of articles that related to articles that we produced for our readers last week and just thought that we would link related articles for our readers in case they are interested in looking more into the situations. On pandemic manufacturing shortages and/or delays due to processes outside…

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Hillenbrand reports 1Q 2021. . .Batesville sales soar 30%

By Funeral Director Daily / February 8, 2021 /

In the world that we are living in, it is certainly not unexpected, but to see Batesville’s sales soar 30% for the October, November, and December quarter is both mind boggling and sobering. It is, in my opinion, mind boggling simply to see any company, without a major acquisition, grow their sales by 30% in…

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Funeral directors and community respect

By Funeral Director Daily / February 5, 2021 /

When I was in Middle School and High School and my father, a 3rd generation funeral director,  would talk to me about being a funeral director he would always say something like this, “It’s a noble profession.  You won’t get rich but you will do fine making a nickel at a time and you will…

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Will the coronavirus change how we grieve

By Funeral Director Daily / February 4, 2021 /

For those of you readers who are not funeral directors, have you attended a funeral in the last six months?  I haven’t. . . . and I cannot remember when the last time I attended a funeral was. Truth be told, since I have left full-time funeral directing and management, I have chosen to go…

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Webinar and lessons from Ring Ring Marketing on winning the customer

By Funeral Director Daily / February 3, 2021 /

Over the past two years I’ve heard a lot about Welton Hong.  It seems like many places I turn somebody has a story about how Mr. Hong has helped their funeral home with their business marketing.  He’s also written the book as they say on internet marketing. . . matter of fact his book is…

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Do we have the supplies to continue moving forward

By Funeral Director Daily / February 3, 2021 /

Funeral homes and those that supply funeral homes have met virtually every need necessary to serve those in need this past year while we have been under the COVID-19 pandemic situation.  When we realized that this pandemic was upon us the situation for most of us was about masks, gloves, body bags, and in most…

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There is a new player coming to town

By Funeral Director Daily / February 1, 2021 /

Back in 1962 Robert L. Waltrip owned one family owned funeral home in Houston, Texas.  And then everything changed when he purchased his second funeral home in Houston.  That led to his adding a 3rd funeral home and forming a company, now known as Service Corporation International (SCI), that owns and operates over 1900 death…

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