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Every thirty days Funeral Director Daily runs this little section where we recap the Top Read articles of the past 30 days. From my point of view as the author of all of the articles I get a sense of what has been of interest to funeral professionals during that time period. .…
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It’s only Monday, but you don’t know when you will be caught in your car, or the removal vehicle, for a thirty to forty-five minute drive. Just so you have something worth while and timely so the boss can’t say you are “off the clock” here’s some ideas of podcasts that you might…
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In this recent article from the student operated Minnesota Daily (University of Minnesota) the Director of the Mortuary Science program Michael LuBrant says this, “Really, it’s a form of health care. It’s serving families, deceased individuals and people at the end of the life cycle. . . . “ LuBrant explains that…
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It’s already the 3rd Tuesday of the month when our friends at the Cremation Association of North American (CANA) help to produce the monthly Death Care Peer Support meetings online. It will happen again tonight at 8 pm Eastern Time/ 7 pm Central Time. Here’s what CANA says about these meetings: “Join…
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“Customer Experience”, or “CX” for short. It’s an extremely important part of your business operation — whether you know it or not. Customer Experience is a subjective thought process of how your clients and others — such as shoppers and people who may simply look to your website for obituaries or to…
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Over the past couple of years many in the Death Care profession have identified that there has been a labor issue in funeral service. Anecdotally, in my opinion, most of that labor issue has simply been in being “short-staffed” on the licensed funeral director/embalmer realm. There seems to be somewhat of a lull…
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It’s difficult to know exactly this early into 2024 if 2023 was a year in which opioid deaths continued to climb or if the United States is starting to make progress in its fight to limit these number of deaths. However, every funeral director in the country has probably had to deal…
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Is there a time when you haven’t given the task at hand your all in effort? Maybe your feeling burned out or under-appreciated. Odds are that if you have felt that way, you are probably not alone with the thought. Tonight, January 16, the Cremation Association of North America once again…
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Maybe you’ve been living under a rock and have not heard multiple and multiple times from media and social media that today is the Iowa Caucuses. . . .the first step in whittling up the candidates that will lead to the upcoming 11-month process in selecting our next President. So, brace yourself for…
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It was announced in a recent press release that industry veteran Jim Price has joined the team at Johnson Consulting Group. In the press release Johnson Consulting Group described Price as “a distinguished professional with an unparalleled career spanning over five decades in the funeral and cemetery profession. Price’s strategic acumen and proven success record…
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