When speaking with funeral homes, one of the most common reasons funeral directors give for not having an active social media presence is "our community is too small." Ten years ago, this point may have been valid, but today, 68% of all Americans use Facebook. Madison Chapel Funeral Home in Alabama receives between 85-95 calls a year in a community of 50,000 and has been a DISRUPT client for 18 months. Since implementing a social media strategy, their home has seen measurable growth.
Tis the season! Convention Season! Ryan travels to the Indiana Funeral Directors Association and Ohio Funeral Directors Association conventions and hammers down on the fact you are throwing MONEY and FUTURE BUSINESS AWAY! One slight adjustment could change your overall success.
This is 60 seconds on why your personal brand as a funeral director is more valuable than your business/funeral home brand. Most funeral directors never think about this, but once you do, you’ll look at how you use social media much differently.
This DISRUPTu! Episode is a different format. No craziness on this one, just straight up answers to a few really tough topics:
This is a special episode that takes you south to Jacksonville, FL to an invite only meeting put on by Live Oak Bank. Get a glimpse into the ‘why’ behind the vision that lead to this roundtable. You will quickly see how this group of funeral suppliers and big thinkers will be the driving force of change in the funeral profession.
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About Ryan Thogmartin:
Ryan Thogmartin is a death care entrepreneur and the CEO of DISRUPT Media and creator of ConnectingDirectors.com. | Follower of Christ | Husband | Father | Entrepreneur | Host of #DISRUPTu! and #FUNERALnationtv | Lover of Skittles
About DISRUPT Media:
Most deathcare companies struggle with Facebook marketing. We provide a process for creating personalized Facebook content that will drive community engagement and measurable leads ensuring growth and profitability.
For something to be successful, there must be something measured. Many conversations I had at the ICCFA convention revolved around defining success on social media. I had numerous funeral directors tell me their funeral home was having success with Facebook marketing, yet nothing had been posted to their page in months and in a few cases over a year! How is your success defined? What are you measuring?
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DISRUPT60 is a weekly one-minute marketing rant on topics that are insanely timely and thought-provoking.
My competitor is heavily engaged on Facebook, and I am not, what should I do? Ryan, gets into this question and discusses what to do if you're late to the party and why freaking out and playing copycat isn't the answer.
We’re going to Las Vegas baby!! The ICCFA Convention is the kick off to the funeral professions convention season. Follow our team to Las Vegas as we talk with funeral directors about the changing landscape of the deathcare profession. We talk about grief content on Facebook, custom apps for obituaries, we watch street performs and we get an inspirational spoken word from my man Keith Charles - evolve or dissolve. You gotta know the uppertaker and the undertaker.
Stop being romantic! This isn't something you typically hear in marketing but 'romance' is killing many funeral homes. Let me explain:
One of the beautiful things about Facebook is that every funeral home has access to the exact same tools. The playing field is level. So, when marketing budgets are small or even non-existent for 100 call or under firms, does spending those limited dollars on Facebook make sense?