We Hate Yelp and Funeral Homes Should Too
I hate Yelp! Why? I recently had a conversation with a funeral home in Columbus, Ohio who said, "I think Yelp is shady, do you know anything about...
Ryan Thogmartin
10,000 Facebook Users Die Each Day, What If You Could Control The Obituary?
I was contacted last week by a new startup company called Everta.lk. They have created a Facebook Canvas app the turns a deceased users Facebook Profile into a...
Major Funeral Home Facebook FAIL: Stop "Liking" Porn [NSFW]
The biggest threat to your funeral home online is you. Yes, you, and Facebook will be your biggest downfall. In the past few years I have probably been...
How I Learned to Stop Pissing Into the Wind
It’s no longer a secret. The adaption rate of funeral professionals when it comes to embracing a new marketing strategy targeting the "Boomer" segment is virtually a non-starter. A new...
Funeral Survey Results – Suppliers and Support Services
We wanted to conduct a Survey of the www.connectingdirectors.com community. We contacted Timothy J. O’Brien, M.S. of ISMPI, Inc. to assist in developing and conducting the survey. In an effort to get...
'The Conversation Project' Turns Focus on End-Of-Life Care
'The Conversation Project' pushes forward with global initiative about end-of-life care. From the outside it sounds like an amazing movement with extreme healing and grieving benefits for the bereaved. But I notice one...
Aurora Pink Slips – Here Are the Positions Let Go
As we shared with you last week Aurora Casket Company's PR group called ConnectingDirectors.com "gossip" when asked by a Indiana News service to comment on the reports we made regarding layoffs....