funeral homes

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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AOC says “Consumer funeral funding in current COVID relief package”

By Funeral Director Daily / January 29, 2021 /

New York United States Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced last week that it is her belief that consumer funeral cost relief is part of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill passed by both houses of congress and signed into law by President Trump in December. Here’s what Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez says in this article from Business Insider, …

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Student debt affects mortuary students and mortuary workers as well

By Funeral Director Daily / January 28, 2021 /

While I have not stayed up to date on the federal government dictates of the Biden administration, the moratorium on student debt payment is, I believe, ending on February 1, and may be extended.  The moratorium program has proven to be well received, as according to the article mentioned in the next paragraph, almost 90%…

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Learning from the secular “non-death care” world

By Funeral Director Daily / January 27, 2021 /

I’ve always had this habit of looking at a statement of fact, tried to look behind the numbers, and then tried to figure out how what I learned or discovered might help me in my funeral home business.  When I operated my funeral business, I was concerned about giving great service to my client families,…

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Canadian online direct cremation provider expanding

By Funeral Director Daily / January 26, 2021 /

Late last year we brought you information on the Canadian on-line cremation start-up Eirene.  The company started in the Greater Toronto area and has announced in this press release that they will be expanding in Ontario. Mallory Greene, founder and  CEO of Eirene had this to say, “We built Eirene with a conviction that Canadians…

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Air quality limits lifted in Los Angeles County

By Funeral Director Daily / January 25, 2021 /

Citing “a threat to public health” the South Coast Air Quality Management District relaxed rules pertaining to cremation in Los Angeles County last week.  The ruling, according to this article from National Public Radio, will lift limits on the number of cremations that can be conducted monthly by crematory operators. An official for the agency…

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Cemetery delays, casket company acquisitions in the news

By Funeral Director Daily / January 22, 2021 /

As we wrap up another week at Funeral Director Daily we bring you some news that is seeming to happen because of the COVID situation and some news that just continues to happen as business opportunities present themselves regardless of the COVID situation across the world. Our first item, that we cannot remember happening in…

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It’s International Day. . . news from across the Pond

By Funeral Director Daily / January 21, 2021 /

Funeral Director Daily has a few readers in the English speaking parts of the world outside of North America.  We have followers in Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.  However, it is not too often that we get news from those regions.  Today, we are bringing you three articles from various parts of the world.…

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SCI’s Dignity firm “here to help” in California

By Funeral Director Daily / January 20, 2021 /

It was recently reported that California passed the three million mark in the number of documented COVID-19 cases and passed the 33,000 mark in death due to COVID-19.  According to several sources, that great number has caused some funeral homes to stop accepting new death call cases. That has caused Dignity Memorial director Anthony Lampe…

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