Doris Davis, Children’s book author, (Grandma Dee Dee) will arrive in New Orleans for the NFDA convention this fall with 3,500 copies of her frog books containing over 70,000 frogs. Doris plans to provide sample packets of her books to as many funeral directors as time will allow. Doris began her writing career in 2004 [...]
Des 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 [...]
St. Louis, MO – ForeverLoved Charms brings new urns into the memorial market. Each jewelry urn is created in Sterling silver or 14kt yellow or white gold in two different sizes. “One of the most important advances with our urns is that they are sealed completely,” said Joel Ragan, President of BabyFaces.com, Inc., the parent [...]
Ranking Analyzes Five-Year Financial Performance of More Than 800 U.S. Based Life-Health Insurance Companies Indianapolis, IN — August 5, 2010 — Forethought Life Insurance Company (“Forethought”), a leading provider of insurance and financial products, today announced it has been named among the nation’s top 50 highest-performing life-health insurance companies in the prestigious 2010 Ward’s 50® [...]
Mishawaka, IN – To fill a void in the offerings of durable, reasonably priced crematory urns, EckCo Products is introducing the I Remember Urn line of personalized urns for families to celebrate their deceased family member’s life. “Our mission is to provide an attractive, low-cost urn for that portion of the market that is leaving [...]
Brownsburg, IN – Russell Cooper has been named Director of Business Development for Water Resolution®, the environmentally responsible alternative to cremation and burial. With a background in early-phase business organization and development, Cooper comes to the position with goals in place and a vision in mind. “I want to increase our interaction with death-care leaders [...]
Q. How should I set up my accounts in QuickBooks? - Submitted by Brian Bowser – Hall Funeral Service, Mena, AR The accounts in your QuickBooks file should be set up in a manner that will enable you to evaluate and monitor your funeral home’s financial results. The most important reason for maintaining accounting records is [...]
<click image to view PDF> BODY SCOOP BY B-MOBILE 505 N. Sunnyslope Ave Pasadena, California 91107 Phone: (626) 233-9574 Email: b-mobile@earthlink.net Website: www.bodyscoop.net _______________________________ Who is Body Scoop by B-Mobile and what products do they provide? In 2004, the original Body Scoop was introduced into the USA from Europe. B-Mobile redesigned the original product based [...]
<click image to view PDF> AMERICAN ACADEMY MCALLISTER INSTITUTE 619 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019 Phone: 800-932-2264 Website: www.funeraleducation.org ______________________________________________ The ONLINE Associate Degree in Funeral Service from AAMI Who is AAMI? Founded in 1926, AAMI is the fifth oldest and the largest of the 56 accredited funeral service schools in the U.S [...]
After some twenty-seven years of working with funeral service professionals, I continue to be asked my opinion about the preneed staff providing aftercare services. Even after all of these years, I still hold to my position that aftercare and preneed go hand in hand and indeed complement one another but they should not be done [...]
