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    FrontRunner Professional announces exclusive str...

    Sunday, June 16, 2013

    FrontRunner Professional announced today its strategic partnership with DISRUPT Media, the funeral profession’s dedicated social media provider, founded by Ryan Thogmartin of Connecting Directors. This new partnership will…

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    If You Own Shares Of SCI Or Stewart Enterprises&...

    Wednesday, May 29, 2013

    Shares of Stewart Enterprises jumped 34 percent, or $3.32, to $13.06 Wednesday before markets opened and after the companies announced the deal. Service Corp., meanwhile, climbed 6.7 percent, or $1.18, to $18.80

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    The Coffinmaker – The Honor and Healing Of...

    Thursday, May 23, 2013

    Carrying the ones we love (in a casket) is very important for us and the way we deal with death. To know that we have played a part and that we have shouldered our burden.

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    Major Television Network is Casting Fabulous Wom...

    Monday, May 20, 2013

    A major television network is Casting Fabulous Women of the Funeral Industry, Is That You? Do you have a special flair for the dramatic and a special signature touch that leaves funeral goers and families both pleased and speechless?

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    A Guide For Using Hashtags On Social Networks

    Wednesday, May 15, 2013

    So how exactly are we supposed to be using these? In some cases they’re used as a humorous way of adding extra content or emotion at the end of a post. But when it comes to marketing your business and promoting your content it’s important to know how to use them properly and gain greater success.

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    Should Patriotism Trump Your Business Obligation...

    Sunday, May 5, 2013

    Last Thursday Dyer Lake Funeral Home in Attleboro Falls, MA. was tasked by legal representatives and authorities to transfer the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead Boston bombing suspect, from the Medical Examiner to their funeral home.

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Why You Should Tweet From Your Deathbed

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In a recent BBC4 radio documentary on dying a good death, Dr. Kate Granger, a 31-year-old with terminal cancer, remarked that she would be tweeting from her deathbed.

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Management vs. Leadership – A manager is responsible; a leader is accountable

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In our business world we are inundated with all sorts of educational title acronyms that seem to provide status following the name of the beholders; i.e., MBA, PhD, CFP, CLTC, CFSP and so on. Of course, there are position titles out of the wazoo; CEO, CFO, COO, CMO, CTO, etc., etc.


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Messenger Acquires Epitech; the Expression Guest Registry Company

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Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional innovative solutions to funeral providers, Kevin Keane, President of Messenger announced today that Messenger has completed its acquisition of Epitech; the Expression Guest Registry Company.

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The Eternal Image Group Debuts Line of Memorial Products

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The Eternal Image Group LLC, a licensing company active in the memorial products industry, today unveiled its line of caskets, urns, monuments, and stationery, all officially licensed by Major League Baseball Properties.  Product details and links to photo galleries


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14 Tiny Changes To Make Your Funeral Home Facebook Page Instantly Better

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No matter what type of business you have, there’s always something you can do to improve your Facebook Page. These 14 tiny changes are a great place to start.

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Funeral Service Student That Changed Name To ‘Myra Mains’ Graduated This Weekend

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Get it: ‘Myra Mains’ aka ‘my remains’. Perfect name for a funeral director…but will anyone really take her serious?


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How FindaGrave.com Netted 10-Million Page Views Per Day

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When Jim Tipton saw a massive tombstone in a Gainesville, Fl., cemetery that was engraved with the name Waldo, he snapped a photo, developed the film and coded a rudimentary HTML website, which he titled “I Found Him.” The year was 1995, during the Internet’s early days, but the photo quickly went viral, passed by e-mail from friend to acquaintances and beyond.



FrontRunner Professional announces exclusive strategic partnership with DISRUPT Media

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FrontRunner Professional announced today its strategic partnership with DISRUPT Media, the funeral profession’s dedicated social media provider, founded by Ryan Thogmartin of Connecting Directors. This new partnership will…


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Thieves ransack homes of families attending funerals

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It doesn’t get much lower than this: Bands of thieves are targeting families at their most vulnerable. Here’s how it works: When you lose a loved one, you post an obituary in the paper, along with details of the funeral. The criminals know you won’t be home, and that’s when they strike… while you’re at the cemetery.

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Cremation: The New American Way of Death

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For decades, burial has been by far the most common form of disposition in the United States. Most Americans never gave it a second thought: their grandparents were buried; their great-grandparents were buried—it just made sense that they’d get buried, too, in the family plot, beside their closest relatives.


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14 Tiny Changes To Make Your Funeral Home Facebook Page Instantly Better

Monday, June 17, 2013

No matter what type of business you have, there’s always something you can do to improve your Facebook Page. These 14 tiny changes are a great place to start.

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Finally A Contest Where Winning A Free Cremation Makes Sense

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Jeff Jorgenson, owner of Seattle’s green funeral home Elemental, has bought his company its first zero emissions electric vehicle. he’s having a contest for graphic designers (or amateur enthusiasts) to create a classy enviro-logo for the car. The prize for the winner? A FREE CREMATION or a…

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Top 5 Tips For Promoting Your Products On Pinterest

Monday, June 10, 2013

The idea is that you think like a consumer and not a funeral director, we don’t mean that in a negative way at all, what we are trying to say is ‘you are a normal consumer just like your client families, and once you grasp the concept that your marketing effort are targeted at consumers just like you (you are really who you are marketing to) then it becomes easier to understand how new forms of marketing online play a role in grabbing the engagement of targeted consumers researching death-care services.

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ICCFA Forms Hospice Committee, Announces First Partnership Program With Hospice Group

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

The International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association has formed an ad-hoc Hospice Committee of uniquely-qualified industry professionals to develop programs in partnership with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

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