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Inspiration Funds: A Strategy to Increase Preneed Sales
Two things are practically a given in our industry these days: More families are choosing non-traditional services to celebrate the lives of loved ones and they want peace of mind by having arrange...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
How to Develop Habits that Support Proactive Preneed
In Atomic Habits, James Clear shares the story of Trent Dyrsmid, a rookie stockbroker who used a simple habit to bring in more than $5 million in his first year at the firm – and that was in 1993 d...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
8 Remarkable Graves with Incredible Back Stories
Have you ever wandered through a cemetery, spotted a beautiful headstone and pondered about the life that may have inspired it? If you have, you are not alone.Cemeteries inspire a natural curiosity...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
Glass-Front Niches: Helping Families Tell the Full Story of Their Loved One’s Life
Coming out of the Covid 19 pandemic, cremation rates everywhere are at an all-time high increasing the demand for cremation memorialization as many consumers have a clearer view of the value of per...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Why Do People Make Tributes to Other People?
Tributes are a special way to honor the life of someone living or deceased. They help those who hear the tribute to recognize the unique contributions the person made to the world around them. Thes...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Royal Treatment - The Hearse of Winsor
When the seven-decade reign of Queen Elizabeth II ended at Balmoral Castle on September 8th, 2022 - how fitting since her mother’s ancestry made Her Majesty the most-Scottish British monarch since ...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
The Evolution of Obituaries and What That Means for Your Website
Today, Families Expect More from an Obituary
How many of us can picture our parents or grandparents flipping to the obituaries section of the newspaper looking for names they recognized?
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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A Hiring Strategy That Might Work for You
In every part of the country, small and medium-sized business owners are wondering how they are going to find enough people to survive and thrive. Have you thought about how you will continue to of...
The Evolution of Obituaries and What That Means for Your Website
Today, Families Expect More from an Obituary
How many of us can picture our parents or grandparents flipping to the obituaries section of the newspaper looking for names they recognized?
Ge...
Embracing Hospice: Benefits of Optimizing Palliative Care
I have no idea what compels someone to become a funeral director, but I simply haven’t dreamt of being anything else. I choose every day to comfort the brokenhearted, to see others at their weakest...
Education in 2023
“Education” is our feature for this special issue of Southern Funeral Directors Magazine. The funeral profession already has a shortage of licensed funeral directors and embalmers and the much disc...
The Future of the Profession - Is It Really Very Different From the Past?
The funeral profession has been around, in a variety of fashions, since time immemorial. What’s the best route to ensure this essential service remains a thriving business into the future? Do nothi...
Six Reasons that Loans Get Declined
Declining loans is the worst part of my job. I sometimes come across funeral directors who take new jobs, move their families, or even sign agreements to purchase a funeral business assuming that t...
The Basics of Personnel Records
Most funeral home owners know that they should have a personnel file for each of their employees, but fewer know exactly what should be in those files and fewer still understand that they should be...