Archive for July, 2012

Celebrities, Death and Funeral Planning

Celebrities, Death and Funeral Planning

In my other life, as a librarian, I’m reading and reviewing The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia. It’s a fascinating Q & A covering several centuries in the White House. ...

Going Gaga About Appearances

Going Gaga About Appearances

What do funeral homes and avant-garde pop star Lady Gaga have in common? It would seem not much, right? But I don’t think I’m going out on much of a ...

Memorial Folders are a Perfect Personalization Opportunity

Memorial Folders are a Perfect Personalization Opportunity

A standard item of funeral stationery that tends to be kept for years by mourners who attend a service, a memorial folder is the perfect medium through which to tell ...

Funeral Register Books Make the Mark in Personalization

Funeral Register Books Make the Mark in Personalization

Funeral register books are no longer strictly record keeping books.  With personalization through themes, photos and remove for favorite quotes or sayings, these once solemn and dull staple funeral stationery ...

Bring Life into a Funeral Service with DVD Video Tributes

Bring Life into a Funeral Service with DVD Video Tributes

The American approach to death is one of avoidance until forced to confront it through the loss of a loved one.  Traditionally a somber, demure affair, a funeral service can ...

It’s All About the Personalization

It’s All About the Personalization

As a funeral home professional, you are working with people during one of the most difficult experiences they will face – planning the ceremony to bid farewell to a loved ...

Much Ado About Mocha

Much Ado About Mocha

It’s all about serving the family. Much ado has been made lately over a funeral home in South Carolina building a coffee shop on site and offering Starbucks’ products. Not ...

How to Hold an Online Funeral Service

How to Hold an Online Funeral Service

Once considered morbid, funeral webcasts are gaining popularity worldwide in our high-tech and transient society.  Secure your place as a full service funeral professional by offering an outstanding and much ...

Personalized Funerals Benefit Your Client Families AND Your Business

Personalized Funerals Benefit Your Client Families AND Your Business

What makes a client family proud of how they are saying farewell to a loved one will also compel them to promote your business.  A personalized funeral, complete with custom ...

Resolving Family Feuds…and Marketing Funerals

Resolving Family Feuds…and Marketing Funerals

Perhaps you’ve heard this family feud—when the discussion of funeral planning/burial comes up, often one partner wants to be buried, the other cremated. More often, however, the discussion is more ...