Private money entering Death Care, pace of family firm acquisitions, and cremated remains memorialization top this month’s reader list
It’s the middle of the month and with that comes our publishing of Funeral Director Daily’s “Top Read Articles” of the past 30 days. This month’s leading articles are no surprises because they are subjects that seem to be on the minds of Death Care business leaders and funeral home owners more and more.
When I attended the NFDA Convention in New Orleans in October I heard, and saw from exhibitors, these topics more than others. . . . . and I’m talking about private equity, the 60-year old funeral home owner looking at succession plans, and answers for families concering what to do with cremated remains. . .
So, here are the Top Read articles from November 15 to December 15 that were published by Funeral Director Daily:
- More “Private Money” is entering the Death Care business.
- “Come Together”: Mergers, bolt-ons, work for family firms too.
- Survey indicates the Top Location in each state for dispersal of cremated remains.
- 60 years ago today . . . . and the story of the Kennedy casket.
- Park Lawn keeps acquisition train rolling along.
- Titan introduces the “Mystery Casket”.
It’s somewhat of an interesting phenomena, and the proof of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Google, that the story “60 years ago today. . .and the story of the Kennedy Casket” continues each November to be one of our Top Read stories. Funeral Director Daily first brought that story to light in 2021 before reprising it in 2023. It’s my belief that the Kennedy assasination that happened in November 1963 is still searched at great lengths every November. . . .and our story pops up . . . bringing with it outside readers to Funeral Director Daily.
So, because that is an “old story” we gave you a bonus story this month. . . the #6 read story of the month.
On a personal note: Thanks for reading Funeral Director Daily. I hope you enjoy reading the articles as much as I enjoy researching and putting them together. . . . and, in this Holiday Season I remind you to continue working to bring “Light” to a world full of “Darkness”.
May God Bless you all and continue to give you the ability to help those families in search of counsel and assistance as they deal with the emotions and financial practicality of losing a loved one to death. May God Bless you for your work in this calling.
Monday’s Down Time — Many of our readers woke up on Monday morning and could not access their daily dose of Funeral Director Daily. I was in the same boat and by 6:15 am had our internet host, Go Daddy, looking into the issue. I’m incredibly ingrained with a “Customer Satisfaction” bent, so when something like this happens I’m always in a hurry to figure it out.
And, since I’m not the greatest technology wizard I always assume the worst. . . like some nefarious characters have taken hold of the website. I’m happy to report that was not the issue and Go Daddy had us back up in about 2 hours. Here’s what Go Daddy told us of the problem:
There is a high number of requests being sent to the server, exhausting all the available resources.. . .
Furthermore, here are the results of our findings: Reviewing the cPanel Hosting server, we did find that resources were exhausted within the previous 24 hours. . . .
When these resources are exhausted, it results in timeouts like this, as well as a slow and sluggish experience for the site users. It is recommended to have the site content reviewed for optimization and/or upgrade the hosting resources if deemed necessary.
Turns out, like other times something like this has happened. . . . that it is usually growth that has caused the issue as the numbers we are bringing to Funeral Director Daily exceed our ability to serve them technologically. I have my technology vendor looking at what does need to be expanded to make sure this situation doesn’t happen again.
I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and angst this caused you on Monday morning. I plan to offer the article from Monday morning in an Afternoon edition in the near future.
And once again, thanks for being one of our expanding number of readers at Funeral Director Daily.
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