Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50. At Tribute in his honor has been created and can be viewed at: http://www.tributes.com/billy-mays
Here is another word Cloud for Farrah Fawcett. With the news of Michael dominating the media right now we must not forget that yesterday the world also lost an incredible and inspirational woman.
This is a very cool word cloud created by Robin Heppell at from FuneralFuturist.com. You can check out some more of his word clouds on his Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/robinheppell
Largo, FL - Specialists are emerging in every area of technology, including hosting funeral home obituaries. Tributes.com is positioned to become the nation’s resource for obituaries with easy to use obituary management software and cutting edge data base architecture providing for increased searchability and security. For these reasons, MKJ Marketing, the death care industry’s marketing leader, has announced an alliance with Tributes.com that will elevate their clients’ online obituary services and allow them to provide their families with new, powerful tools to better tell and preserve the rich stories of their loved one’s lives.
Tributes.com is the only website hosting service to offer funeral homes income generating options from obituary hosting. According to Glenn Gould, CEO of MKJ Marketing, “Obituaries have never been recognized for the inherent value they represent to funeral homes. The generation and management of the obituary for the family is an important service that the funeral home provides and they should have an opportunity to benefit from their efforts. Forming a strategic alliance with Tributes.com provides our website clients the means to enhance their obituary offerings while also making obituaries a profit center.”
To read the rest of this release click here: http://www.tributes.com/global/press_article/43
To honor fathers this year Tributes.com is adding Tributes to Fathers to the homepage of the site, and offering a promotion on a Commemorative Tribute so that their families can tell the full story of the lives of their fathers and grandfathers. Learn more here.
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“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.” ~ Clarence Budington Kelland
I bet you even the top consulting companies won’t be able to come up with an answer on this one.
I got my MBA in Product Brand Management at Boston College last year. I can analyze case studies, build fancy financial models and I have read “The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing” at lease three times (great book by the way but that’s a subject for a blog another time). If there was a PHD program in “understanding the value of an obituary” I would strongly consider applying to it. Believe me, I have read thousands of obituaries.
An obituary is valuable. And an online obituary is easier to access than a newspaper (which by the way may not be around too much longer, you can ask Buffett if you don’t believe my prediction on that one). An eternal tribute that includes videos, pictures and memories is priceless. Priceless. That is my final answer.
I could argue that the value of the obit gets even stronger with time. Every year I light a candle on the death anniversary of my grandmother, Itta Golfenbain. I hold the memories of my amazing and kind grandmother close to my heart and I honor her memory. Yet what better way to honor her memory than to share her life story with my loved ones? I want her story to continue into the future generations. I want all of her old students that think about her often (and have shared memories with me about her) to leave their stories of her online. I want to pass around the link to my grandmother’s story to all my relatives on her death anniversary. You can not put a valuation model together on the value of an obituary. You just can’t.
Jessica Zelfand - Regional Sales Director
jessica_at_tributes.com
www.tributes.com
It has been 20 years since my grandfather, Kolya died. I remember being in a complete state of awe when I met my grandfather, pronounced dedyshka (in Russian) for the first time when I was 8 yrs old . . . My father took me on a trip to the former Soviet Union so I could meet my family members who had not yet immigrated to the US. Now twenty years later I am in even more fascination of the incredible and difficult life my grandfather lead with his head held high.
Kolya witnessed some of his family members killed in the Holocaust. Kolya fought and was wounded in World War II. Kolya dropped out of school in the 5th grade to help take care of his family. Kolya was thrown into jail several times because he was a business owner and a jew in a communist country . . .and the list goes on and on.
Kolya was a family man and did everything he could for his immediate and extended family. He set an incredible example as to what a strong and kind man is.
Kolya died 20 years ago but his memory has been kept alive by my family and now I have a way to keep his memory alive for generations to come. It is for this reason that I am going to build an online eternal tribute that tells the story of my grandfather’s life and I will be sure to have all my aunts and uncles share their memories of grandfather Kolya on the tribute (and they can upload their pictures and memories anytime they want). This tribute will stay online forever and I can import it into my family tree and pass it around to everyone. Kolya’s life story is too important to not be shared with my great great grandchildren. At the very least I need my family to be aware of the toughness and shrewdness that is running through their veins.
This eternal tribute will be a priceless “gift” to my family . . just in time for Father’s Day. This is way better than getting dad another tie.
Jessica Zelfand - Regional Sales Director
jessica_at_tributes.com
www.tributes.com
