May 2022

Page B5 MAY 2022 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Se c t i on B CLARKSVILLE,IN— Express Funeral Funding is thrilled to announce the launch of their new website, www.expressfuneralfunding.com. The new platform provides a sleek, leading-edge design, coupled with impeccable functionality and a comprehensive overview of the expansive services Express Funeral Funding offers. Request a demo and experience the industry’s Fastest. Easiest.® three-step funding process, customize their personalized Express Hub account and discover how Family Pay can help them and their families! “We’re dedicated to providing the ultimate experience for our funeral homes, cemeteries and their families. Our new website was strategically designed with our customers in mind and is just the beginning of what we’ll be releasing this year,” said DeannaWilkinson, director of sales and marketing. The new website will be updated frequently with new service launches and Express news. Visitors are encouraged to explore the new website and create their custom Express Hub user profile at www.expressfuneralfunding.com/express-hub. Express Funeral Funding has been providing funeral homes and cemeteries nationwide the ultimate funding experience since 2002. Express Funeral Funding eliminates the challenges of working with insurance companies by limiting administration, providing immediate payment and advancing complete policy funds. For more information on Express Funeral Funding, visit www.expressfuneralfunding.com or call 812-949-9011. GIG HARBOR,WA— New Memorials Direct has announced a new marketing option for their funeral home partners, a digital flipbook! This interactive online brochure has clickable products that link directly to their website and the appropriate product to make the ordering process that much easier! Since the brochure is all digital, it can even be embedded on to their funeral home’s website to allow the families they service to better understand the memorial options they sell. Updates to the digital brochure will be made dynamically, meaning after initial setup they can set it and forget it! The flipbook provides them with a similar look and feel to a printed publication without the concern or downtime of running out of stock. Paper printed materials will still be available as this new option can be used with or without supporting paper brochures. To inquire about this or any of New Memorial Direct’s memorial products, contact New Memorials Direct via telephone at 1-253-649-0568 or visit their website at www.NewMemorialsDirect.com. 2013 S&S Lincoln Majestic Hearse 2009 Eagle Cadillac Kingsley Hearse 2007 S&S Cadillac Masterpiece Hearse Lease a new Platinum Cadillac XT5 Hearse & get a FREE Funeral Caddy Memorial Carrier Buy a complete Funeral Van or Convert your own Vehicle I... am your father Yeah, Dad. I know 4hearse.com (800) 4-HEARSE 2021 Platinum Cadillac Phoenix-C Hearse Express Funeral Funding Launches New Website New Memorials Direct Offers Digital Flipbook Sympathy Brands Unveils New Solutions Enabling Deathcare Industry to Streamline Workflow and Enrich Family Care MIAMI,FL— Dedicated to enhancing and unifying the deathcare industry, Sympathy Brands expands its digital care ecosystem announcing the addition of a suite of solutions designed to seamlessly and automatically enable funeral directors and cemeterians to customize a family’s experience. Families have come to expect robust, connected services and features from all industries, including funeral homes and cemeteries. Industry professionals, dedicated to helping serve families, are often overwhelmed by the numerous touchpoints and systems they encounter. Sympathy Brands’ new suite of tools include do-it-yourself customizable service folders, prayer cards, and acknowledgment cards with automated design features. This streamlined capability provides sophisticated offerings for families, while reducing duplication of data entry, minimizing extraneous work, and saving time for funeral directors and cemeterians. With options to email to the family, quick-print directly from the platform, or incorporate service folders into designated virtual events, Sympathy Brands helps the industry deliver enriched family care while reducing day-to-day work. Additionally, to increase this customized experience, a virtual guest list and register book accompany eachViewneral®, Sympathy Brands proprietary streaming service built for the funeral and cemetery industries. The deathcare industry can now provide families personalized, private messaging from attendees in addition to the attendee information and keepsake recording. This additional support delivers another layer of automatic and ongoing support managed from Sympathy Brands’ single source. “We are always looking to find ways to help the industry and are excited to announce these new products. Our customizable, doit-yourself solutions add a new layer to our holistic services, enabling funeral homes and cemeteries to easily create their own stationery products and print in-house or at their vendors of choice from a single source,” says Sympathy Brands CEO Michael Schimmel. “Simplifying and automating the process reduces workload, helps eliminate errors, and creates more time for deathcare professionals to focus on supporting families.” Through Sympathy Brands’ family of brands, including eCondolence.com, Cemetery.com, shiva. com, and others, the deathcare industry can reach a family’s community, providing support and services at relevant times. Sympathy Brands helps navigate end-of-life solutions by enabling technology to deliver meaningful connections with ease. Its proprietary platform, SBConnect™ serves to unite funeral homes and cemeteries with families and their expanded network of supporters, providing information at increased touchpoints throughout the journey, from preplanning to at-need to aftercare including memorialization and commemoration. Focused on enriching family care and reducing workload, Sympathy Brands offers solutions to improve care such as automated, personalized messaging to families and the ability to virtually eulogize and memorialize the deceased with Viewneral®, a virtual suite of interactive services. Sympathy Brands integrates with funeral homes and cemeteries existing technologies, including CRM, record management and websites, to continuously provide a leading, streamlined experience. Visit www.SympathyBrands.com to learn more.

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