I love finding funeral directors who are embracing technology in their funeral home. The following article comes from the blog of Phaneuf Funeral Home. Funeral director Buddy Phaneuf talks about how embracing technology in their funeral home has helped expand their business. Embracing Technology in the Funeral Industry Recently I was interviewed by Bart Miller for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
26 Mar
Funeral Home Gambles Business on Facebook!
Facebook has now become the most visited website in the USA. Facebook gets more hits than Google!! So why not use Facebook to leverage your business? At the recent ICCFA convention, many of the keynote presenters talk about the importance of funeral homes having a presents on the social networking site, through a personal page [...]
5 Mar
Facebook Getting Serious About Online Memorials
Facebook is now allowing “Fan/Tribute Pages” of the deceased to stay online forever. The following article was written By: Lisa Miller and Published in Newsweek Magazine. R.I.P. on Facebook Minutes after news broke that the British fashion designer Alexander McQueen was dead, a suicide at age 40, the prayers and condolences started pouring in. More [...]
16 Feb
Grieving Online: Can Sites Like Facebook Help Heal?
This is a topic that is currently being debated among many funeral industry professionals. Obviously those of us in the industry would rather the online grieving take place through the funeral homes website, and there is now a platform in place that is allowing families to get that Facebook feel and interaction with visitors to [...]
27 Jan
The Funeral Industry Is Changing, Please Listen to The Customer
I recently read a book by Gary Vaynerchuk called “Crush It“. The book is about how Gary was able to use social media to drive his families Wine business from a $3.0 Mil business to over a $70.0 Mil operation in just 7 years. Gary tells how he used his passion and social media to [...]
18 Jan
Are Some Facebook Memorial Pages Breaking The Law?
This is an important article that is coming from Canada regarding the mysterious death of a toddler. The Facebook memorial fan page for the young baby is raising some legal red flags pertaining to a “publication ban” that has been put on the case. Please read… I wonder if this type of situation could become [...]
17 Dec
Mortuary Student Banned From University After Facebook Posts
Facebook is quickly becoming a hot bed for police investigations. Borderline “Status Updates” have led police to many individuals who have and are planning to do criminal things. There is no way to tell if this was a status update that really held criminal intents, but faculty at the University thought it was. If there [...]
16 Dec
What Do Seniors Do Online? You Will Be Amazed!!
We have talked a lot about Baby Boomers and the impact they are going to have on the funeral industry lately. Well Nielsen just released new data which reveals that the number of seniors (65 and older) using the Web has increased by 6 million in the last five years. And guess what sites they [...]
4 Dec
Social Networking for the Funeral Industry – Getting Started
Guest Writer: Bonnie Quintanilla has 20+ years of corporate and agency marketing communications and public relations and social media experience. She co-founded Corridor Communications, Inc., seven years ago to focus on the funeral industry, technology, and consumer marketing. Social Networking for the Funeral Industry – Getting Started In the last six months the number of [...]
10 Nov
Walmart Slams Lid On Customers’ Creepy Online Reviews of Its Caskets
The howling-wolf T-shirt phenomenon it is not. Walmart Stores (WMT) has closed the lid on customer reviews of its caskets. As DailyFinance reported this week, the retailer is selling 15 caskets, and more than 130 urns and cremains containers, through its website. As debatable as that business proposition might be, it proved a sure thing [...]
