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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
Pre-Recruitment Preparation… Your Key to Success!
If there is one thing that has become almost gospel truth in funeral service these days, it is that good help is hard to find! We have been recruiting exclusively for the funeral and cemeteries pro...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
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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...
What’s the Key to Running a Successful Funeral Home? Your Team
From the rise of cremation to the pandemic, there are many things disrupting the funeral profession right now. If your funeral home doesn’t have a plan, it can lead your staff to experience burnout...
Jefferson State Community College Student Essays
By Samantha Brown Gibbs
In 2019, I lost both my parents seven months apart each to cancer; (my father to leukemia on May 26th, 2019, and my mother to breast cancer on December 22nd, 2019). Before ...
John A. Gupton Student Essays
By Estreya McCanna
Its May 2021 and I just started my very first semester of Mortuary school at John A. Gupton College. I logged into my classes to complete some of my first assignments, and it wa...
Why Does the Appearance of a Burial Vault Matter?
The main purpose of a burial vault is simple: protection. A vault prevents the weight of the earth and heavy cemetery equipment from collapsing the grave. It also safeguards the casket space agains...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of SBA Financing “Whether Buying, Selling or Refinancing, Here’s What You Should Know”
The Small Business Administration (SBA) works with lenders to provide loans to small businesses. The agency doesn’t lend money directly to small business owners. Instead, it sets guidelines for loa...
Creating Connection with Urn Vaults
Just 12 years after the full funeral procession of President Abraham Lincoln, the first “modern” cremation was captivating the press nationwide. Within the first American crematory built in a small...
