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Health care costs may drive increased expenses in 2024

By Funeral Director Daily / July 10, 2023 /

    According to this recent article from Yahoo Finance, businesses, including funeral homes, may find their employee health care costs rising by up to 7% in 2024.  And, that is on top of increases of 5.5% in 2022 and 6% this year.   According to the article, “. . .hospitals and providers will often…

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Tired of reading? . . . .then, here’s some good podcasts and voice articles we have found for you!

By Funeral Director Daily / July 5, 2023 /

      This afternoon we are bringing you a great conversation that our friends, Danny Jefferson and Alan Creedy, have at the “Two Guys and a Question” podcast.  In this 10-minute podcast Creedy and Jefferson take on the question, “Embalming:  Is it still relevant?”   Turns out they think so. . . . listen…

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Is the end of Non-Compete agreements coming? Will funeral directors be “Free Agents”?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 20, 2023 /

      Back in January of this year Funeral Director Daily published this article entitled “Federal Trade Commission seeks to ban (most) non-compete agreements.”  There has been a lot of push-back to non-compete agreements as they have become common practice, not only for highly compensated professionals, but for general employees as well.   During…

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NFDA podcast honors Todd W. Van Beck

By Funeral Director Daily / June 14, 2023 /

    Funeral Director Daily is sharing our Wednesday Afternoon Edition to simply make you aware of the National Funeral Director’s (NFDA) “Brush with Death” podcast series and one of its latest editions.  We want to make you aware of Podcast #56 entitled “In Loving Memory of Todd Van Beck“.   Here’s what NFDA says…

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Maybe older workers are the answer

By Funeral Director Daily / June 9, 2023 /

    Yesterday’s Funeral Director Daily article centered on the fact that many, especially in the Millennial age group, are seeking what they term a “Work-Life Balance” in their careers and our article pointed out that many who have worked in the funeral profession find that balance lacking in their lives.  As was mentioned yesterday,…

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Lack of Work-Life Balance may cause headaches at the funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / June 8, 2023 /

    Last week we wrote an article that you can read here that highlighted the record number of students currenty enrolled in mortuary schools across the country.  That article certainly makes it look like we will have a number of graduates to replace those retiring funeral directors as the years go by.   However,…

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Opioid deaths, yes. . . what about traffic fatalities?

By Funeral Director Daily / June 5, 2023 /

      I worked my time for over 30 years as a funeral director in a community located along the interstate highway system.  That vast amount of traffic passing by us unfortunately led to a few incidents of multiple fatalities that were directed to our funeral home for help in removal and trade services.…

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Maybe the word is getting out. . .it’s honorable and rewarding

By Funeral Director Daily / May 25, 2023 /

    I served as a “front line” funeral director for over 33 years.  I did my share of night calls, prep room work, arrangements, and funeral duty.  One thing that I take from that experience is that “I always felt, by the way I worked with a client family, like I could make a…

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You can see the data. . . what does it mean for funeral homes.

By Funeral Director Daily / April 19, 2023 /

    Last week I came across this article from The Hill entitled, “Two million people fled America’s big cities from 2020 to 2022”.  If you have read my articles for anytime now you will understand that when I look at an article like that usually the first thing that comes to mind for me…

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Mexican funeral firm alleges fraud against U.S. company in purchase

By Funeral Director Daily / April 11, 2023 /

    Disagreements can be a part of any transaction.  Today I’ll touch on a lawsuit that was filed last week that once again shows the importance of due diligence being necessary in any transaction.   Last week we learned through this Wall Street Journal article that Mexican funeral service provider Servicios Funerarios had filed…

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