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Did your funeral home achieve all of its goals for 2012? Does the increasing number of families selecting cremation with no services have you concerned? 2013 is a new year that brings a new set of goals to help reboot you business and your team. The New Year is the perfect time to create new [...]
I once heard a sermon that now seems appropriate to this last in my series on reinvention. We all know the story of Jesus healing the blind. This sermon wondered not about the healing but THE DAY AFTER. The man's whole life was turned upside down. He had KNOWN HOW to be blind. His livelihood depended on [...]
I feel like maybe I have backed myself into a corner. Price-Led-Costing A simple concept; but for an industry steeped in generations of pricing from exactly the opposite perspective and whose most respected financial advisors continue to advocate cost-led-pricing this is bound to be a real challenge. To enable you, dear reader, to flip the [...]
A few years ago I was meeting with a husband and wife who operated a very successful funeral home. Like most successful people they were always looking for new ideas to help them stay in front of their competitors. To protect their privacy I'll call them Bill and Jane. Over the course of our two [...]
One of my favorite bloggers is Caleb Wilde who writes "Confessions of A Funeral Director." He recently Posted this photo. Texting while Driving: A Great Way to Support Your Local Funeral Director For those of you that don’t know, Batesville, Indiana is the Mecca of the Funeral Industry as it houses the great Batesville Casket [...]
Are we rapidly moving toward a "Post-Funeral"culture? I don't think so. After 50 years of steady decline in public attitudes towards funerals the pendulum is swinging back our way. Like Croci in the spring, the signs are poking through the frost if you will just look and this week's post is one excellent example. 30 [...]
How interesting! As I step out to encourage this profession to not give in but take a stand and fight for itself I find more than I expected joining the cause. Apropos of everything my friend, Bruce Buchanan, brought an article to my attention published via The Wall Street Journal that succinctly expresses many of [...]
Remember that bill congress needed to pass to see what was in it? Well, surprise!! The Medicare Tax has been expanded to include almost ALL income (active and passive) over $200k for singles and $250k for couples. This even includes the gain on the sale of a personal residence over the exclusion amount. If the [...]
Don't know what happened but it seems Amazon pulled the promotion before it really got started. My thanks to Tom Parmalee for alerting me. click here to read more. I do like the Obama urn idea. (just kidding)
These are good tips. I know many of my readers have autoplay music or "walk-ons" so you need to know I agree with point number 4! How to avoid the 7 Deadly Mistakes Websites Miss
