Robin Heppell Just Launched a Funeral Home Advertising Contest
If you follow Robin Heppell on Twitter, @funeralfuturist, then you know he just launched a "Funeral Home Advertising Contest". The reason I decided to post this is because...
National Cemetery Summit Began Monday?
With out much hype at all, anywhere, the first National Cemetery Summit kicked off yesterday in Greenville, TN. Read below about the summit and who is attending. A...
Successful Funeral Advertising Specialist Launches Agency During a Recession – for the Second Time
Northridge, CA ? Los Angeles advertising creative director Dan Katz started his first ad agency during the recession of the early 90?s and built it into one of...
CDTV Episode #4 – Announcing The Most Epic Contest Ever!!
CDTV is the world's most fun funeral industry webshow, focused on industry trends, information, and products and how they make funeral homes more profitable. In this weeks episode...
Not a Good Year For Celebrites, AP Provides List of Notable Deaths in 2009
Of all the notables who died in 2009, the one who most changed the world could have walked down any Main Street USA without causing a stir. Scientist...
Churches To Compete For Funeral Service Business?
Are churches really a threat to funeral homes? I found this article and thought it was very interesting. I have never thought of a church as a competitor...
Thousands of Wreath-Layers Carry Out Arlington Tradition
Pfc. De'Angello Robinson, 19, traveled seven hours by bus to place a wreath on the tombstone of a soldier he didn't know. For Robinson and other Marines who...
Man Burglarized Shop to Print Funeral Pamphlet
A Gainesville man was arrested in Chiefland for reportedly breaking into a print shop to print pamphlets distributed at an Ocala funeral. Philip James Henderson,was charged with burglary...
Man Goes To Grave on Front Loader, By Request!
Melvina Patterson pointed to her father?s casket on a platform on the forklift of a garbage truck Saturday morning and said, ?This is who he was.? The 21-year-old...
What Do Seniors Do Online? You Will Be Amazed!!
We have talked a lot about Baby Boomers and the impact they are going to have on the funeral industry lately. Well Nielsen just released new data which...