Jason Koch
Bus 620
Professor Jacqueline Gilliard
March 14, 2011
How do You Sell Funeral Services to People Who aren’t Dying?
Abstract: While as the economy starts to rebound, the centuries-old industry is learning to embrace new technology as a way to keep it from, well, dying., after-death products and services, by contrast, must edge along an emotionally touchy route to reach customers because funeral homes are moving away from the "cookie-cutter funeral" and starting to personalize the services and offer new features., lower-cost funeral homes and funeral stores are fighting for their share of the national death-care market by responding to the demands of the budget-conscious, time-pressed baby boom generation., and wen customers come to a funeral home, they first meet with a funeral director to talk about the person who died. The new marketing of funeral services the funeral director and the next of kin spend a couple of hours compiling stories and details about the life that person lived.
How do You Sell Funeral Services to People Who aren’t Dying? After-death products and services, in contrast to other forms of marketing, must walk an emotionally touchy line to reach customers, because lower-cost funeral homes and funeral stores are fighting for their share of the national death-care market by responding to the demands of the budget-conscious, time-pressed baby boom generation.. The funeral homes are moving away from the "cookie-cutter funeral" and starting to personalize the services and offer new features. When customers come to a funeral home, they will meet with a funeral director and talk about the person who died. The new marketing of funeral services the funeral director and the next of kin spend a couple of hours compiling stories and details about the life that person lived. Focusing on the idea that the person lived is the key to selling the funeral service to a person who