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Business Members: Batesville Technology Solutions Batesville, IN connectivitysuite.com/OGROffer/ Lori Hartman; Megan Weber; Bonnie Jeffries Phone: (877) 287-8661 WebSales.Bcc.Support@batesville.com Referred by Skip and Delores Urban, Anton B. Urban Funeral Home, Ambler, PA
The GriefWords Online Library is a powerful resource for the families you serve, offering industryexclusive grief articles and book excerpts created by nationally recognized grief expert, Dr. Alan Wolfelt, Director for the Center for Loss and Life Transition. With GriefWords, you can offer families a unique and meaningful resource on your website.
Member benefit: GriefWords subscription - $300 set-up fee ($50 discount) and $135 annual hosting fee (25% discount). Early bird special: Sign up by October 1, 2013 to receive an additional $50 discount or $250 set-up fee, and 25% off hosting fee ($135 annual fee). Mobits.org Detroit, MI www.mobits.org Steven Holland Phone: (786) 763-1875 info@mobits.org
A Mobitsm is a mobile-app with all information regarding final arrangements. It uses features of smartphones such as navigation, tap-to-call and internet search to make it much easier on the family to communicate the loss to those concerned as well as directions, date, time and location information of the final arrangements. Each Mobit™ is branded with your funeral home’s name and contact information, with links to the funeral home’s phone number, website and mobile website. For a demo, text “Mobit” to 72727.
Member benefit: Your first Mobit (Mobile App Obituary) is Free! Funeral home mobile apps are also available with $100 off the one-time standard price of $499. No hosting fee for the funeral home mobile app if you use at least one Mobit annually. For multiple funeral home locations, there is a one-time $100 fee for each additional location. 24 www.ogr.org | The Independent®
Nicodemus & Associates Virginia Beach, VA www.cremationsuccess.com Mike Nicodemus Phone: (757) 503-3576 mikenicodemus@cox.net
Nicodemus & Associates
The number of families that choose cremation versus burial has reached almost 50 percent, and they recognize the need to help guide funeral directors through the years ahead. There are many funeral directors that still look at cremation as bad for business. This is where Nicodemus & Associates can help. Cremation may certainly put a damper on your bottom line, but they can help change that. They are funeral directors helping funeral directors. Services include business operational assessments, staff training, marketing, technology, policy and procedure review, crematory site and process inspections. Member benefit: Solutions gained from years of operations expertise, industry leadership and comprehensive knowledge of the industry on a national scale. Shine On Brightly Ashville, NC www.shineonbrightly.com Adrienne Crowther Phone: (828) 348-0455 Secondary Phone: (866) 844-4469 acrowther@shineonbrightly.com Referred by Tom Frisch, America’s Great Funeral Homes, Maquoketa, IA
A premier source for unique, hand-crafted memorials, including cremation urns, memorial and cremation jewelry, memorial paintings, memorial glass, hand-bound guest register books, and pet memorials. The company is based in Ashville, NC, which enjoys a long legacy of artists and fine craftsmen. All products on the site are hand-crafted in the U.S. Member benefit: 25 percent off retail pricing