by Jamie Allar | Jan 30, 2017 | Building Your Funeral Business
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: An Hourglass Hourglass iconography on gravestones...
by Jamie Allar | Dec 28, 2016 | Building Your Funeral Business
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, they were not...
by Jamie Allar | Dec 21, 2016 | Building Your Funeral Business
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 find great personal satisfaction,...
by Jamie Allar | Nov 17, 2016 | Building Your Funeral Business
(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 prefunded my services.” I checked the drawer...
