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Mental health, physical health, and business health are all important aspects of how we perform. This week you can learn about all of those subjects and how to stay in peak performance throught webinars and support meetings put on by your colleagues in the greater death care network. Here’s what’s up this…
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We are blessed to live in a country which allows for religious freedom. And, when you work as a funeral director helping those who have lost loved ones to death, it’s a privilege to help even when those client families don’t believe as you do. However, have you ever thought about those…
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If you ever met funeral director Danny Jefferson then it’s pretty simple knowledge that you have one more friend. Danny Jefferson, who contributes to these pages every so often with his “Two Guys and a Question” podcast with partner Alan Creedy, is the consummate Southern gentleman and consummate funeral director. Danny probably…
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I’ve thought about this many times over the years, but the older I get the more I believe it is true. That is that there is probably no one in your local community that knows the community better than the local funeral director. It hit me yesterday as I was at the…
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We thought we would use an Afternoon Edition of Funeral Director Daily to pass on some upcoming webinars and podcasts that deal with recent happenings. . . . Customer experience is what it is about now in retaining client families, more and more women are entering the Death Care workforce, our friends at…
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It’s not every day that you turn to the magazine Popular Mechanics to find an article about the Death Care profession. However, that is exactly where I found this article about “Have trocar will travel” embalming and body preparation specialist Monica Torres. I was unaware of Torres and her company NXT Generation…
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If you own, operate, or manage a Death Care business you have massaged your business through the pandemic, supply chain breakdowns, inflated related cost issues, and more in the past two to three years. Are you ready for what many people are advocating in the near future — the “4-Day Work Week”? …
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Funeral director Collin Bourgeois made this comment in this article from CBC, “I certainly tried to retire. It lasted three weeks.” Bourgeois is a funeral director and owner of and operator of a funeral business with three locations in northeastern Ontario. After 45 years in the business he’s staying on the job…
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We are a little bit late this month but here are the stories that our readers found most interesting over the last 30 days. . .well, actually the 30 days from January 15, 2023, to February 15, 2023. There’s something for everybody in these articles — acquisitions, buy-outs, local promotion, corporate thoughts, and…
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It’s probably appropriate that this article will appear in Funeral Director Daily on a Friday. It’s on weekends, at least it was for me, that many funeral directors feel overworked and neglected. It’s probably because most funeral homes are short-staffed on weekends and those on duty miss many family activities that take place on weekends…
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