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How to Evaluate If A Funeral Home CRM System Is Right for Your Firm

May 3, 2022 by Homesteaders Life Company
Featured, Funeral Home Business

Evaluating if your firm needs a customer relationship management (CRM) system begins with analyzing your current funeral home operations to identify areas of improvement and opportunity. In most scenarios where you feel your firm could grow or become more efficient, a funeral home CRM system can help. Discover seven questions to help you evaluate your current operations and identify if you should pursue a funeral home CRM for your firm.

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4 Low-Cost Ways to Personalize a Funeral Service

May 3, 2022 by Niki Smith
Featured, Funeral Home Business

Funeral trends continue to change as consumers get more creative in how they honor loved ones. With many online options to share content, those ideas spread even more quickly. Personalizing a service helps families find comfort in happy memories of their loved one’s unique characteristics and stories. And when families prearrange their funerals, they can add even more personal details without the time constraint of planning an at-need funeral. Offering your suggestions for customization will help you earn your clients’ satisfaction, referrals and positive reviews. People who attend the services will also take note of the extra care you took to make the experience meaningful.

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Steps for Branding, or Rebranding, Your Funeral Home

April 1, 2022 by Niki Smith
Funeral Home Marketing, Featured

What do client families do when a death occurs and they don’t have a go-to funeral provider picked out? They Google it.

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Tips for Hiring Preneed Professionals

February 25, 2022 by Homesteaders Life Company
Featured, Funeral Home Business

Hiring new employees can be both exciting and daunting. In addition to your day-to-day tasks and taking care of the families you serve, you must find time to advertise for the position, screen résumés and conduct interviews; not to mention the additional pressure to make sure you find a candidate who will fit your company culture.

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3 Steps to Align Your Funeral Home Marketing Strategy to Your Customer Journey

February 3, 2022 by Amy Johnson
Funeral Home Marketing, Featured

In the first and second posts of this three-part series, we discussed what a funeral home marketing plan is and why it’s necessary and how to lock down market share in your community using a market analysis. The final post in this series will cover high-level considerations and marketing tactics you should account for when aligning your firm’s marketing strategy to your customer journey. Specifically, we will explore each stage of the marketing funnel and help you consider how to use appropriate digital and physical marketing tactics and messaging at each phase to move consumers through the funnel.

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The Funeral Home Marketing Plan Series

January 19, 2022 by Amy Johnson
Funeral Home Marketing, Featured

Do you have a steady stream of preneed and at-need clients, or do you find that your marketing campaigns fall short of generating enough qualified leads to support your business goals? Having a comprehensive marketing plan in place can help you target the right consumers in your community with the right messaging at the right time. This complete series will walk you through the fundamentals of creating a funeral home marketing plan that works and aid you with resources to help you build or refine your funeral home’s marketing plan.

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Key Funeral Home Business Growth Opportunities for 2022

January 10, 2022 by Alyssa McNab
Featured, Funeral Home Business

The start of a new year is often a time of renewed energy and focus as business leaders reflect on the previous year and pursue even greater success in the year to come. For funeral service leaders, this means even more opportunities to act on the lessons learned about client families’ preferences as the coronavirus pandemic continues to change how consumers interact with service providers.

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What A Funeral Home Marketing Plan Is and Why It’s Necessary

December 16, 2021 by Amy Johnson
Funeral Home Marketing, Featured

Developing a comprehensive funeral home marketing plan begins with understanding the people in your community, which, in the marketing world, means conducting a market analysis. Without getting a deep sense of who these people are, you risk throwing your marketing dollars in the metaphorical fire.

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Understanding the Key Parts of a Funeral

December 3, 2021 by Homesteaders Life Company
Featured, Funeral Planning

When I share information about the components of funeral service, I like to start with a comment from Dr. Jason Troyer, a grief expert, author, former psychology professor and therapist who offers numerous services for the funeral profession. He provides a reminder that can help those of us who work in funeral service and the families we serve.

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How to Select the Right Funeral Home CRM

November 19, 2021 by Homesteaders Life Company
Featured, Funeral Home Business

Selecting a technology solution is a major step for any business. Introducing a new system requires careful planning and often a steep learning curve, so you want to be sure the option you choose is an ideal long-term fit for your funeralhome. This is especially true for your funeral home's customer relationship management (CRM) system.

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