June 1 Enforcement Date Looming for FTC Red Flag Rules
After several delays and postponements, enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission?s Red Flags Rule is slated to begin June 1. The regulation would require all businesses that fall...
Funeral Compensation Survey – Now Available
Funeral Service Insider's annual compensation survey is now open. Every year, funeral service professionals eagerly look forward to the results of the survey, which is open to funeral...
Digital Death Day, Huge Opportunity For Funeral Industry
As many of you know last week I had the privilege of co-hosting the first ever "Digital Death Day" un-conference in Mountain View, California. One of the attendees...
Will Baby Boomers Help or Hurt Funeral Industry?
At the Cannes Film Festival recently, director Woody Allen said about death, "I'm strongly against it." No doubt he was serious, but the former stand-up comedian was also...
Moving Forward, Together: NFDA Leadership Conference Builds Better Associations for a Brighter Future
The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) is now accepting registrations for its 2010 Leadership Conference, July 11-14. Hosted at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort in Cambridge, Md.,...
How Are You Using Social Media to Benefit Your Funeral Home?
Tiffany Stewart is currently a graduate student at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas and expects to complete a Masters in Counseling in 2011. Her areas of...
GPS Helps Nab Graveside Flower Robber
Boston - Police were able to track down a man who was stealing flowers from a gravesite thanks to GPS technology. Rick and Donna Muzzy's son Kevin was...
My Recent Trip To Google
I have always been fascinated with tech, and this week I have had the opportunity to be in the heart of tech, Silicon Valley. I am attending Internet...
Woman "Stiffs" Cops by Hiding in Coffin
A Philadelphia woman faces escape charges after she allegedly hid in a coffin at a central Pennsylvania funeral home after running away from authorities in handcuffs. Nineteen-year-old Nicole...
Woman “Stiffs” Cops by Hiding in Coffin
A Philadelphia woman faces escape charges after she allegedly hid in a coffin at a central Pennsylvania funeral home after running away from authorities in handcuffs. Nineteen-year-old Nicole...