8 Creative Things Your Ashes Can Do After You Die
If you're thinking of being cremated after you die but the typical urn seems a little - well - boring, here are a few creative ways for your loved ones to keep you around after you're gone: ...
Six Cornerstones to a Great Funeral Care Business – Part 2
Now that you know the important cornerstones of funeral service, it's time to take a look at the actual service elements, or what Jason Troyer, Ph.D. calls "components". While the 6 Cornerstones in Part 1 of this post were numbered, ...
Six Cornerstones to a Great Funeral Care Business – Part 1
Why are you in the funeral care business? To be sure, the underlying reason anyone starts and grows a business is to provide an income for themselves and their family. Hopefully, funeral care is also a business in which you ...
Are Your Funded Pre-need Files Vulnerable to Competition?
(As appeared in the January 2017 issue of the My Homesteaders newsletter) A few months ago, I was sorting through a pile of funeral surveys, and I came across a family (let’s call them the Smiths) that indicated, “I have ...