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SEPTEMBER 2017

FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS

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MKJ Integrates with Tukios

FrontRunner Professional announces

Partnership with GoFundMe to Offer

Funeral Homes A Helping Hand™

ow stationery box sets to funer-

al homes throughout the day

of her visit. In addition, funer-

al homes who placed orders for

Beyond the Meadow stationery

between July 5 and July 14 re-

ceived a free signed print of the

artwork.

Messenger, headquartered in

Auburn, IN, has been in business

since 1913 and has transformed

funeral registries and stationery.

Currently, Messenger leads with

the best digital registry on the

market and the most extensive

line of funeral stationery avail-

able. Messenger invests in train-

ing and consumer research each

year and is dedicated to helping

funeral professionals stay rele-

vant in an ever-changing mar-

ketplace. Their ultimate goal has

been and always will be to make

a difference to grieving families

through the products and servic-

es we provide. For more informa-

tion, call 800-827-5151or visit

www.messengerstationery.com.

Artist Marjolein Bastin visits

Messenger Headquarters

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The Cremation Market is Booming, and so

is the Demand for Eco Scattering

“Families that visit our funer-

al home see this urn as an eco-

friendly solution for scattering

their loved one’s cremated re-

mains. One feature that differ-

entiates Eco Scattering is that it

is a natural, biodegradable urn

made of bamboo and doesn’t

have any hardware which gives

families more options - they

can keep it or bury it or leave

it at the scattering site and do

no harm to the environment. In

addition, it is well built, it looks

beautiful and dignified and it is

much sturdier than other op-

tions on the market. It is also

a conversation starter in the

showroom with its unique look.

We look forward to growing

our relationship with Element

Urns.”

Element Urns, LLC, based in

Denver, CO is committed to

developing unique market lead-

ing cremation urns catering to

the eco-conscious consumer.

Its product offering includes

The Living Urn®, the leading

bio urn and planting system in

the United States designed to

grow a tree with cremated re-

mains, Eco Scattering™, a new

and unique bamboo scattering

urn, and Memory Gift Tree™, a

memorial tree gift offered by fu-

neral homes and corporations to

families who’ve lost a loved one.

Element Urns is currently de-

veloping additional eco-friend-

ly urn lines that are expected to

become available in the fall of

2017. More information about

Eco Scattering™ can be found at

www.ElementUrns.com

KINGSTON,ONT—

Front-

Runner Professional

has

announced a new crowd-

funding tool, in partner-

ship with GoFundMe, that

will enable funeral pro-

fessionals to offer fami-

lies a dignified channel

for receiving support dur-

ing times of loss. A Help-

ing Hand™ is founded on

an inherent understanding

of funeral service and ad-

dresses the many challeng-

es that a family can face

when a death occurs, chal-

lenges specific to funeral

service.

In partnering with the

world’s largest crowdfund-

ing platform, GoFundMe,

A Helping Hand™ brings

funeral service expertise to

an, already reputable soft-

ware.

“With the growing pop-

ularity of crowdfunding

as a standard expression

of sympathy, we felt that

it was necessary to assess

the crowdfunding options

and create a solution tai-

lored specifically to the fu-

neral space and the needs

of modern families. Most

models are simply adapted

to this industry—we want-

ed to create something that

was unique to death care.

Being the leading funer-

al technology company, it

was natural to be the first

to work with the leader

in crowdfunding to create

this incredible tool,” says

Ashley Montroy,

market-

ing director of FrontRun-

ner Professional.

This release of this plat-

form comes on the heels

of FrontRunner announc-

ing a strategic partner-

ship with ObitTree, which

launched in April and

brought thousands of fu-

neral homes across North

America together to pro-

vide industry profession-

als, grieving families and

the public at large a one-

stop resource for funer-

al service information.

Subsequently, A Helping

Hand™ will be added as

one of the many features

that makes

ObitTree.com

such a powerful step to-

wards a stronger, mod-

ern and more sustainable

death care profession.

“Our mandate at Front-

Runner has always been,

and always will be, to in-

novate new ways for fu-

neral professionals to pro-

vide families with the

information,

resources,

tools and guidance that is

required to help them in

times of need. In addition,

we want to foster a better

image for funeral service

as a whole, break down

the barriers and generally

remove some misconcep-

tions that are out there.

A Helping Hand™ is not

only comprehensive, but

it is also transparent; our

goal is to make families,

communities and the fu-

neral professionals they

work with have open di-

alogue about death care

expenses. Through Obit-

Tree, this platform is al-

ready available to over

a million visitors every

month. We are extremely

excited about what the fu-

ture holds,” added Mon-

troy.

A Helping Hand™, pow-

ered by FrontRunner in

partnership with Go-

FundMe, is a crowdfund-

ing model backed by many

years of experience in not

only death care but also

technology platforms. To

learn more about A Help-

ing Hand™, visit www.

ahelpinghandfunding.com

or contact FrontRunner at

1-866-748-3625 or online

at www.FrontRunner360.

com.

LARGO,FL—

MKJ Marketing,

the lead-

er in marketing websites for the funeral

industry, announces an affiliation with

Tukios,

the leading independent pro-

ducer of tribute videos. MKJ’s state-of-

the art obituary platform features the

latest in engaging technology, including

online condolences, a life event time-

line, and live webcasting. MKJ’s inte-

gration with Tukios now makes MKJ

sites the fastest and easiest way to cre-

ate stunning memorial videos, all within

the funeral home’s website. The partner-

ship with Tukios allows funeral homes

to share and sell videos right from their

own obituaries.

According to

Courtney Gould Miller,

COO and head of digital at MKJ, “An

important difference between Tukios and