This week, a few of our funeralOne team members headed down to Raleigh, North Carolina for the annual North Carolina Funeral Directors Association (NCFDA) conference. Not only was this a great chance for our team to meet face-to-face with some of our loyal customers, but it was also an opportunity to catch up on some […]
View image | gettyimages.com Most people ﹘ outside of funeral directors, of course ﹘ do not realize just how much arranging, set-up, care, sweat and passion goes into planning the perfect funeral service. You can’t help but put a little heart and soul into every service you plan for a family, and you truly put […]
For funeral directors, there is perhaps no sentence sweeter or easier on the ears than, “I’m here to pre-plan my funeral.” (Ahh, just say it to yourself a couple times… brings a smile to your face, doesn’t it?) Why exactly do funeral professionals prefer pre-planning? Mostly because it gives them a chance to really connect […]
What happens when your market changes faster than you can keep up? The most obvious answer: mistakes are bound to be made. Lot’s of them. And experts have predicted that there are plenty of mistakes that funeral service, as a whole, could make if we don’t change our ways sooner than later. What are these […]
Here at funeralOne, we are all about innovation. It is something we truly live, sleep and breathe by and we’re constantly looking change the profession for the better and make funeral planning a more valuable (and less complicated) experience for families. And we’re on a mission to bring that creative spirit to the entire funeral […]
It’s no secret that funeral service is slow to change. But when we have a lot of science-backed data to show us the validity in changing, why would we ignore it? Maybe it’s because we haven’t seen the data yet. After all, funeral service also happens to be one of the least research-focused professions out […]
Have you ever tried finding out the price of a funeral service… as a customer? It’s not exactly an easy task. For some reason, many funeral home websites don’t make it easy for families to find the prices, which to me, sounds downright crazy. Even when you do come across the rare funeral home website […]
I have to admit, when I first entered the funeral service world three years ago, I was a little weary of funeral directors. After all, everything I read and saw about them shined a negative light on them. But after spending the last three years getting to know them personally, I can easily say that […]
There isn’t a day that passes where I see an article on “life hacks” that I’m not tempted to click on. After all, we live in a fast-paced world where everyone’s trying to find time to do more and make their life a little bit easier. For all the life hack articles I see out […]
A few years ago, this controversial video made its rounds on the Internet: In the video, innocent diners at one of California’s finest restaurants were tricked into purchasing $7 bottles of water that they believed came from the finest glaciers, valleys and rainforests in the world, containing antioxidants and other vitamins that were “good for […]
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