WalMart Selling Caskets – Great Marketing Tactic?
When it comes to social media, it's best to start with a solid listening strategy. And while you're fine-tuning the "what, where, when and how" as you're eavesdropping...
Guess How SCI is Funding Keystone Acquisition, You!
Service Corporation International (NYSE: SCI) ("SCI"), which owns and operates funeral service locations and cemeteries, announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of $150.0 million...
Hey Walmart, Selling Caskets Online Is Nothing New!
Walmart is not reinventing the wheel. Selling caskets online is nothing new. Companies have being doing it for years. Of course, no one else is as big as...
Police Investigating Coroner After Allegations of Child Pornography
Kentucky - A search warrant unsealed late this afternoon reveals why Kentucky State Police searched Woodford County coroner James Steve Ward's funeral home, office, and home in October....
Smugglers In Iraq Have A New Trade: Corpses
Iraqi and U.S. officials have expressed concerns about the traffic of weapons and drugs across the country's porous borders, but there is also an older and more surprising...
Service Corporation International Announces Third Quarter 2009 Financial Results
Service Corporation International (NYSE: SCI), the largest provider of deathcare products and services in North America, today reported results for the third quarter 2009. Our unaudited condensed consolidated...
2009 NFDA Convention (Boston)
The 2009 NFDA Convention was awesome!! The booth traffic was amazing. I was able to leave the booth some this year and get a few pictures of some...
Faulty Death Certificate, Red Tape Stand in the Way of Closure for Grieving Family
DEL MAR ? The end came quickly for Lillian Steinberg, an artist, pilot, world traveler and stay-at-home mom who spent the last of her 94 years in her...
Two Young Men Follow Their Calling into the Funeral Home Profession, Finding Fulfillment in Helping Others
Appleton, Wisconsin - On television and in movies funeral directors are portrayed as tall and pale, bland and boring individuals who rarely, if ever, crack a smile. After...
Developing a Financial Foundation
This is the first article in a series that is written for the purpose of providing funeral home owners and managers with financial information and tools that will...