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Tough Decisions to Make When Managing Your Business
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines Management as “the act or skill of controlling and making decisions about a business.” It even goes further to include a reference to management as an art. As s...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The Cost of Waiting - How to Avoid Losing Funerals to Direct Disposition
You’ve probably had them in your funeral home. Families who are grieving the loss of a loved one and don’t already have a plan in place. You notice how they react when you use the word funeral, and...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Single-Pay Preneed: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
It is no longer a question of if inflation will continue to increase this year, but how much, which means funeral businesses will need to aggressively manage expenses while simultaneously looking f...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Memories Need Help Sometimes Step Up To Be the One To Educate
They were a sweet couple, Helen and Bob. Their beautiful little Maltese, Lexi, had just died and they were a mess. Lexi was just one of their many Maltese loves, as that’s what kind of family they ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
The Mourner's Bill of Rights
Though you should reach out to others as you do the work of mourning, you should not feel obligated to accept the unhelpful responses you may receive from some people. You are the one who is grievi...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
As a little girl, I loved to flip through all our old photo albums. Pages full of pictures of vacations and pets, smiling faces of parents, grandparents, cousins, and babies, but what I loved most ...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Overcoming the Funeral Home Recruitment and Retention Challenge
In 2021 Connecting Directors put out a survey for funeral professionals to gather data on the wants, needs, concerns, and habits of deathcare workers. In that survey, “Employee Recruitment and Rete...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
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Ashes in the Living Room? A Surprising Revelation in Death Care
WHOSE ASHES ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
Parents top the list, accounting for 39% of ashes held in homes, followed by extended family, friends, or others at 30%. Grandparents make up 20%, siblings or chi...
Growing Preneed Sales in a Market Shifting Toward Cremation
GROWING PRENEED SALES IN A MARKET SHIFTING TOWARD CREMATION by Jack Hirsch
Although today’s consumers have more choices than ever when it comes to end-of-life planning, cremation is increasin...
THE NUMBERS ARE IN: DIGITAL MERCHANDISING WORKS!
Of course, many of you reading this have known it for years. But for funeral directors who have been skeptical of utilizing technology displays to showcase caskets, we can share the results with yo...
Why Specialized Transportation Providers Are Essential for Shipping Human Remains
Shipping human remains is one of the most emotionally and logistically complex services in the funeral industry. While families and funeral homes technically have the option to arrange transportati...
A Trusted Journey: Transporting Loved Ones Home
For over four decades, Inman Shipping Worldwide has set the standard for transporting cremated remains home for ceremonies. The core of our business is helping families bring their loved ones home ...
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SALE-LEASEBACKS FOR FUNERAL HOME OWNERS
A sale-leaseback enables a company to sell its real
estate to raise capital and subsequently lease the
property back from the purchaser. In this way, a company
can get both the cash and use of the ...
Business Decisions for Your Funeral Home
Independent firms are increasingly approached
by consolidators (big and small), what are the
top 3 considerations when contemplating the
sale of a generational, family owned firm?
A. Don’t go at it...
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