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NFDA Policy Board Elects Arrington, Moore to Executive Board
Attracting Business by Developing Your Funeral Home’s Brand Personality
 Chris Giovarelli, Marketing Communications Manager Lincoln Heritage Funeral Planning When selecting a funeral home, are families looking for the closest facility, or the nicest, the most established, or the least expensive? Is it your economical direct cremation offering, your new green services, or your traditional funeral package that will draw more families? Do they want the largest, smallest, friendliest, or most professional firm? The simple answer is, yes. The truth is, there’s no average customer or singular equation to success. Families in your market are looking for what you have to offer; the question is do they know you offer it? Consumers today are overwhelmed by the many choices that confront them, and the accompanying piles of information that demand their attention. When inundated with options, we are wired naturally to make gut decisions based on our feelings and previous experiences. Why? Because we are generally emotional beings, and especially so when dealing with life and death.
Connecting Directors Launches Social Media Coaching Services It’s official – social media is now the #1 activity on the Internet. In fact, popularity of social media sites is growing so fast, it’s almost impossible to have accurate statistics to share. But you’ve got to admit the available numbers are staggering: as of January, 2010, Facebook claims that at least 175 million users visit the site every day; Twitter has 75 million user accounts, and the average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3
Stericycle's Online Bloodborne Pathogens Training Receives Prestigious Telly Award Steri-Safe Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Training has received national acclaim as a Telly Awards winner for online education. The Steri-Safe BBP Training is the cornerstone of Stericycle’s Steri-Safe OSHA Compliance Program. Serving tens of thousands of various healthcare providers in the U.S., members of the Steri-Safe OSHA Compliance Program can now take an award winning BBP Training
PIMS Announces Dean's List
Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science (PIMS) is pleased to recognize those students who have been placed on the Dean's List for the Spring trimester ending May 14, 2010. The following students have achieved a grade point average of 3.50 or better in this trimester of studies. Homesteaders Life Company Included on Prestigious ListDes Moines, Iowa — Ward Group®, an independent firm specializing in insurance industry benchmarking and best practices, has included Homesteaders Life Company in its 2010 list of 50 top performing life and health insurers in the United States. More than 800 insurers were analyzed for this year’s benchmarking. Each company must pass certain safety and consistency screens and achieve superior performance over a five-year period prior to being recognized among the top 50.
Reduce Tuition Expenses through FINE Mortuary College’s Articulation Programs FINE Mortuary College, LLC: A Private Two Year College (FINE) located in Norwood, MA has in place two articulation agreements, one north and a second south of FINE, which open the way for many more students to attend mortuary college in New England since the agreements considerably reduce the expense of attending FINE. |
