by JCGAdmin | Dec 16, 2009 | Articles
Jake Johnson was interviewed by Ed Defort in the December 2009 issue of Memorial Business Journal Given the recent economic gyrations, how can funeral homes and cemeteries best gear up for 2010? JJ: Funeral homes and cemeteries will need to be sure to budget their...
by JCGAdmin | Nov 24, 2009 | Articles
Johnson Consulting highly recommends that you survey your families that you have served. It is a gold mine of valuable information that will help you formulate your marketing plans and strategies…. 2010 – THE BIG QUESTION – “DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT IS GOING...
by JCGAdmin | Nov 24, 2009 | Articles
Johnson Consulting does not provide tax advice, but relies solely on the experience and expertise of Tax Services As the year end approaches, now is the time to start planning for your 2009 income taxes. Conventional tax planning calls for deferring income into 2010...
by JCGAdmin | Nov 24, 2009 | Testimonials
Most every family owned funeral home reaches a point in time when the owner generation needs a sound business plan to transfer the ownership to the next generation. That was our situation this year with our funeral homes and cemetery. We called Tom Johnson who has...
by JCGAdmin | Nov 18, 2009 | Testimonials
Jake, I am just getting back home from our Annual Managers Meeting and I just wanted to say that Todd Van Beck’s presentations were outstanding. It would take me too long in this email to fully describe how outstanding his presentations were. I am overly impressed...
by JCGAdmin | Nov 9, 2009 | Testimonials
Dale: I wanted to thank you once again for the recent work performed for our family. The business valuation assured me that things were fair, and in good order for all concerned, as I transfer the operating company to the fifth generation of the Geib family. My good...
by JCGAdmin | Oct 16, 2009 | Articles
A definition would be a good place to start. For the purpose of this discussion let us define “Management” as “The Administration of Success in Business”. And, of course, this applies to the successful Management of a Funeral Business. It may...
by JCGAdmin | Sep 14, 2009 | Articles
By Bill Bischoff My 35 years working the funeral service industry has been quite an experience and very rewarding. During all those good times, I have met 1,000’s of funeral directors and their families and have visited 100’s of funeral homes. There is no better...
by JCGAdmin | Sep 8, 2009 | Articles
BY DALE ESPICH In my 40-plus years in working with funeral directors as a management consultant, I have seen just about every description and methods of “Accounting” used to try to keep track of income, expense and profit/loss. Let me throw out a series of questions...
by JCGAdmin | Aug 27, 2009 | Articles
We have heard the expressions to determine if one is an optimist or a pessimist; ‘Is the glass half full or half empty?… If you have lemons you make lemonade …when the pessimists sell the optimists make money… and so on.’ Our economy is...
