Come to the Technology Think Tank in Providence, Rhode Island

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Come to the Technology Think Tank in Providence, Rhode Island

Join Your Peers Sept. 9 and Extend Your Stay for the Innovators Summit!

When you come to the Technology Think Tank, Sept. 9, at the Marriott Providence Downtown, you’ll leave energized to tackle business challenges, leverage technology, and provide families with the personal touch they need.

Some of the funeral profession’s top operators and consultants will focus on how to improve your business, paying particular attention to how technology can enhance your business and the services you offer. Walk away knowing how to:

  • Leverage your digital brand to do business with more families.
  • Turn website visitors into real customers.
  • Connect with more people by posting and sharing great content on Facebook.
  • Make doing business easier and more profitable with new tools.
  • Optimize the management of trusts using technology.

“We have an all-star lineup that will focus on everything from using technology to boost preneed, how to leverage Facebook to build brand awareness, ways cemetery mapping can help families, and how technology can make it easy to manage trust assets and overall business operations,” said Allison Sullivan, the longtime publisher of Kates-Boylston Publications.

Speakers include:

Welton Hong, founder of Ring Ring Marketing, has helped some of the country’s top funeral homes, cemeteries and combination operations boost their call count via online marketing. In fact, he is considered a secret weapon by top firms nationwide.

Bill A. Johnston, a Facebook expert and the president of Post & Boost, helps firms boost business online.

Wendy Russell Wiener, managing member of WRW Legal, represents entities and individuals who interact with administrative agencies that regulate all aspects of insurance and the death-care industry.

Bill Williams, president, CEO and vice chairman of Funeral Services Inc., who formerly owned and operated several funeral homes and was a regional vice president for Service Corporation International.

Jon O’Hara

Jon O’Hara, a licensed funeral director and the managing partner of Great Lakes Partnership, a preneed marketing firm.

Jimmy Pinocchio, the founder and CEO of Ceemetery360, a software platform offering imaging for the death-care profession to enhance sales.

Ronen Rybowski, the president of Behar Mapping, a leading provider of digital mapping technologies in the death-care profession.

The event is sponsored by Implant Recycling, MemoryShare, Ring Ring Marketing, Funeral Services Inc., Post and Boost, Answering Services for Directors, Cemetery 360 and Behar Mapping. Sullivan gave a hearty thanks to the sponsors for their support.

Visit https://events.kates-boylston.com/event/technology-think-tank to learn more – and register by July 31 to save $100! Enjoy a hotel rate of only $169 per night at the exclusive Marriott Providence Downtown by booking your reservation by the early bird deadline, too.

Everyone who attends the Technology Think Tank is also invited to extend their stay by registering for the Cremation Innovations Summit, which will be Sept. 10, at the same exclusive hotel.