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How Genealogy Can Help You Promote the Value of Funeral Service

March 10, 2016 by Alyssa McNab
Funeral Home Marketing

Genealogy and funeral service share important common threads: Both involve building and enhancing family connections and ensuring lives are not forgotten. Because of this, hosting a genealogy-related event at your funeral home can help people in the community form relationships with your funeral home and become advocates for the value you provide

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Sharing the Benefits of Preneed Funeral Planning on Social Media

March 8, 2016 by Alyssa McNab
Funeral Home Social Media

One of the most valuable gifts funeral professionals have to offer families is the ability to facilitate important conversations about final wishes. Your expertise allows you to educate people about the value of planning ahead to ensure their memorialization preferences will be honored.

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Funeral Planning Checklist: Considerations for Families

February 24, 2016 by Alyssa McNab
Featured, Funeral Planning

Many families can be caught off-guard by the number of tasks that must be completed within a day or two of a loved one’s death. Even those who have planned a funeral before may find themselves overwhelmed by the decisions that need to be made and details that must be coordinated.

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Why Mentoring is Important for Funeral Service Professionals

February 16, 2016 by Alyssa McNab
Featured, Funeral Home Business

Funeral service builds and strengthens connections between people. Your firm builds lasting connections with your community through your involvement with local organizations and events. The families you serve build connections with the staff members who helped them through the most difficult times in their lives. People who attend funeral services build or strengthen connections with one another thanks to the opportunities your hard work provides.

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Using Pinterest for Funeral Home Marketing

February 4, 2016 by Alyssa McNab
Funeral Home Marketing, Funeral Home Social Media

In 2010, Ben Silbermann posted the first pin on the visual bookmarking website Pinterest. It was a milestone step in what had been a long journey to create a new online experience. Silbermann and his business partners wanted to take the personal activity of collecting to the internet – and it worked.

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How to Conduct A Market Analysis for Your Funeral Home Business

February 2, 2016 by Amy Johnson
Funeral Home Marketing, Featured

Many local business owners say they know their communities very well. But often, these business owners base their understanding of a community’s demographics, attitudes and preferences on anecdotal evidence – not data. For example, a business owner might make assumptions about how the community perceives their business based on a small sample of feedback they personally receive from clients. While instincts and personal experience hold some value, they do not provide all of the information necessary to make strategic and tactical decisions that result in long-term success for a business.

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What Families Who Choose Cremation Services Want You to Know

January 19, 2016 by Alyssa McNab
Cremation

Think about the most recent positive experience you had with a service provider. Most likely, your experience was notable because the people you worked with made an effort to understand your preferences and then used their own expertise to offer reliable suggestions about how they could accommodate your choices.

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Continuing the Conversation After Prearranging

January 12, 2016 by Alyssa McNab
Funeral Home Marketing, Funeral Planning

Families who prearrange with your funeral home will appreciate an ongoing relationship with you. In turn, your firm will also benefit from the boost in customer loyalty and increased referrals. Here are a few simple ways you can continue the relationship with families who have prearranged with your funeral home.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Funeral Home Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

January 7, 2016 by Danielle Burmeister
Funeral Home Marketing

It's no secret that facility maintenance, staff salaries and licensing fees demand a large portion of your funeral home's annual overhead, leaving little budget for new initiatives. Fortunately, funeral home marketing doesn't have to cost a lot. Today's digital landscape rewards imagination and creative customer experience far more often than costly marketing campaigns. Not sure where to start? Discover five ways to improve your funeral home marketing on a shoestring budget.

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Life Lessons From Working in Funeral Service

December 22, 2015 by Homesteaders Life Company
Funeral Home Business

At Homesteaders, we are committed to promoting the value of funeral service. We have always believed we are in two businesses — funeral service and insurance — and we want our staff to reflect our values. Many of our employees had experience in the funeral profession prior to joining Homesteaders — some as funeral directors, some as administrative support and a few who actually grew up in a funeral home.

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