funeral business
Later in this article you can read a press release issued last week that announced the acquisition of Aftercare.com by Tukios. Tukios is a major player in the video memorial creation software used, by Tukios count, over 5000 funeral homes. In our opinion, at Funeral Director Daily, companies with reach like Tukios, are smart to…
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As we head into the week before the Christmas Holiday I reprise my role as a guest of hosts Jeff Harbeson and Ryan Thogmartin on their Funeral Nation program. . . this time Episode #210. The hosts have me back quarterly to discuss death care companies in the public stock markets. . . where I…
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Probably more so than I can ever remember, funeral directors, funeral homes, and the North American funeral is being written about in 2020. And, in general, the topics seem to be all related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems to me that the topics are funeral homes being extremely busy, families dealing with death without…
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A couple of weeks ago Funeral Director Daily did a couple of articles dealing with working on an operating budget for funeral homes. We looked at both the income and the expense sides and told you of how we budgeted over the years for profit. . . .even if our call numbers came in lower…
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In today’s Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily you will find that most of our linked stories deal with funeral homes and their handling of the COVID-19 situation. We are also taking today to catch up with some items that you should be aware of in terms of PPE procurement, a webinar brought to us…
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Funeral directors are interesting creatures. We live to serve. . . . that doesn’t happen in every profession. I told my wife the other day as we live in this pandemic world every body seems to have all the answers. Politicians are acting as scientists, scientists are acting like politicians, parents know more than the…
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Earlier this week Foundation Partners Group, the Orlando based funeral home, crematory, and cemetery operator announced that it had purchased a company that operated three locations in Southwest Florida. You can read the press release on the acquisition here. Foundation Partners Group announced that it had acquired the Akin-Davis Funeral Homes. They also announced that…
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So many times when I’m writing a an article I find something in that article that jogs my mind about another aspect of funeral service, or business, or life in general. In yesterday’s article I mentioned “Top of Mind Awareness” as something that your business or your brand wants your potential customers to have. I…
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This afternoon we are bringing you some news from the National Funeral Directors Association as well as a couple of stories that we uncovered about death care in California that point out the tragedy of humanity in the lives of those less fortunate than many of us. First of all, the National Funeral Directors Association…
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Over the weekend I had the opportunity to read two different articles with two different perspectives of the death care business. One article brought out criticisms of our professions that some in the consumer world have held since the days of Jessica Mitford and her 1963 book entitled “The American Way of Death”. That article,…
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