NFDA Announces 2015 Meet the Mentors Program Attendees
Brookfield, Wis. – The National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) announced the names of the 50 funeral professionals who will have an opportunity to learn from four leading funeral...
What Little Miss Funeral Wears (when it’s cold outside).
What do female funeral directors wear when they have to conduct funerals? What do they wear when they have to conduct funerals and it’s a little (or a...
OGR Annual Conference Introduces New Schedule And Supplier Showcase In Orlando, FL April 22-25, 2015
AUSTIN, TX – January 2015 - The International Order of the Golden Rule (OGR), the world’s leading professional association dedicated to serving independent funeral homes, will host this...
National Study Confirms Value of Flowers at Funerals
Brookfield, Wis. – According to the results of a new report from the American Floral Endowment’s Floral Marketing Research Fund (FMRF), both bereaved families and funeral directors feel...
Explore the World’s Most Morbid Tourist Attractions
It may seem strange that someone would want to visit the site of a mass execution, natural disaster, or nuclear meltdown. However many tourists travel to such destinations...
Selected Independent Funeral Homes Honors Goldstein as 2015 Recipient of Prestigious NextGen Award
DEERFIELD, ILL. —January 27, 2015— Selected Independent Funeral Homes has named Jason Goldstein of Linwood, N.J., the 2015 recipient of its NextGen Professional of the Year Award. Goldstein was given the special honor...
Batesville Offers Free Educational Webinars for Funeral Professionals – Feb. 24 – 27
Four topics include practical advice to help you grow your business BATESVILLE, IN., Jan. 28, 2015 – Batesville, the leading provider of comprehensive solutions to the death care...
How To Steal Your Competitor’s Funeral Home Website Traffic
Article by Joe Joachim, FuneralOne With more than a billion websites online and many different ways for this generation’s tech-savvy, research-first consumers to find new businesses, competition is fierce in...
How Americans’ refusal to talk about death hurts the elderly
In my family, we don't really talk about death. But, every now and then, we joke about it. For some reason, there is a running joke among...
Crematory Rejects Cardboard Cremation Casket Because It’s ‘too dangerous’. What?
A grieving relative has been blocked her from cremating her aunt in a cardboard coffin by penpushers because it is 'too dangerous. Marianne Stevens, 73, ordered a...