Page B6 MAY 2023 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Section B By Mike Jamar Your Source for High Quality Funeral Vehicles Mike Jamar is founder and co-owner of Advanced Integration Technology. Mike has been working with computers since the early 80s and started Advanced Integration in 1994. Advanced Integration specializes in Internet inventories designed for specialty vehicles and equipment. HearseHub was created through a collaboration between Advanced Integration and Nomis Publications, and is now in its fifth year of service. HearseHub brings together funeral vehicles from a number of dealerships that specialize in high quality funeral vehicles. HearseHub offers funeral directors a large, and easy to shop inventory, of funeral vehicles. You can reach him at Mike@AITAdvantage.com. FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS www.NomisPublications.com Monthly Columnsonline at 2023 Professional Car Society 46th International Meet entrance from the Holiday Inn, the PCS Meet’s host hotel. The Classic Auto Mall’s website, www.classicautomall.com, includes the vehicle inventory and is currently showing over 900 vehicles, both collectible vehicles and barn finds. When I was first made aware of this place, I spent over 30 minutes looking through the vehicles. It also delayed the writing of this column because I spent more time than I should have looking through the vehicles again. I have added this place to my bucket list. The Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles is the second reason and is a scheduled event destination. The tour will be held on Wednesday, August 9. The museum also preserves local road transportation history, as almost all of the vehicles were built in Pennsylvania. The Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles is housed in the former home of the Boyertown Auto Body Works, which had continuous operations on this site from 1872-1990. The museum includes vehicles of all types. Their website is www.boyertownmuseum.org. I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention the members’ car show. I have only been to one, but thoroughly enjoyed The Professional Car Society’s 46th International Meet is being held in Morgantown, Pennsylvania from August 8 through August 12, 2023. If you are a car lover, this is one not to miss. If I were a member, I would be there, but unfortunately, I don’t have a professional car which somewhat diminishes my reason to be a member. I am writing about attending for two main reasons: the Classic Auto Mall and Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles. I am mentioning it now in advance because the host hotel is joined with the Classic Auto Mall and may sell out quickly. The Classic Auto Mall is a vehicle consignment house. It offers showroom space for 1,000 vehicles for sale and 400 barn finds on display. The vehicles for sale are either collectable or special interest vehicles. It also is reported to house one of the finest barn finds collections in the world. The building is climate controlled and a destination for car lovers. As mentioned, the Auto Mall has a walk-through it and hope to get to another someday. The car show will be on Saturday, August 12. For more information about the Meet visit the The Professional Car Society website at www.theprofessionalcarsociety.org. Carriage Services Announces Partnership with Funeral 365 Booth 129 New Digital Fingerprint Storage Solution from Sympathy Brands to Increase Funeral Director Productivity OGR Names Passages International as New Endorsed Supplier Booth 1116 MIAMI,FL— Sympathy Brands and its family of brands, including shiva.com, eCondolence.com and Cemetery.com, are committed to making it easier for those in the deathcare industry to do their jobs. That is why they are excited to introduce their newest time-saving feature, the Digital Fingerprint Storage Solution. With this new offering, which is the first of its kind in the industry, funeral directors can now keep everything in one place by storing an unlimited number of fingerprints together with the case file. Easy to download, email, and print on demand, this all-in-one solution increases organization and simplifies workloads. The Digital Fingerprint Storage Solution can be easily integrated into a user’s existing Sympathy Brands platform as part of the case creation and management process. With this addition, partners will have the ability to: • Upload image files to a case in order to store, download, email, print, or delete the file at any time • Email each file to the user login email for quick access to the file • View the quantity of files that have been uploaded, all in one place • Control access by enabling or disabling the feature for a location “As the deathcare industry evolves, so do the needs of our partners,” said Michael Schimmel, CEO of Sympathy Brands. “With our new Digital Fingerprint Storage Solution, we’re helping partners save time and stay organized, allowing them to focus instead on emerging priorities.” Sympathy Brands is the parent company for shiva. com, JewishFuneralGroup.com, eCondolence.com, SympathyBrands.com, Cemetery.com and others. The company mission is to support families and industry experts through all stages of end-of-life matters™ with its trusted marketplace, leading technology and highly curated network of strategic partners. To learn more, visit www.SympathyBrands.com. Terrybear announces Additional Enhancements to the Memory of a Lifetime® Digital Portal ST.PAUL,MN— Terrybear Urns & Memorials is excited to announce additional enhancements to the Memory of a Lifetime® digital portal. The newest enhancement, Retail Price Mode, gives funeral homes greater control over the user experience provided by Memory of a Lifetime. Once Retail Price Mode is turned on, the standard Memory of a Lifetime experience becomes a customized retail shopping experience for the funeral home, all with just a single click of a button. The custom retail experience includes the funeral home’s best possible service to the family. Memory of a Lifetime was created to provide an online shopping experience that anyone can use anytime, anywhere. Whether you are a distributor, a funeral home, or a family planning a memorial, Memory of a Lifetime makes ordering and personalizing cremation products quick and easy. For more information on the Memory of a Lifetime® digital portal, visit http://www.terrybear.com/memoryof-a-lifetime. branded logo and their custom retail pricing, making Memory of a Lifetime a valuable tool for providing the HOUSTON,TX— Carriage Services is pleased to announce a new partnership with Funeral 365, to provide Carriage with a cloud-based management solution specifically designed for the funeral industry. The solution, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, will be integrated into the operations of every Carriage business and provide a sustainable and proven ERP solution with over 3 million users. With a proven track record of being a secure and reliable cloud solution, it will be designed to streamline all aspects of Carriage’s operations including funeral home and cemetery related functions. “Our partnership with Funeral 365, is the driving force behind our Digital Transformation. Powered by Microsoft’s Dynamics Cloud Platform, Carriage Services will gain a competitive advantage within our industry for the foreseeable future.” said Rob Franch, Chief Information Officer of Carriage Services. “ The features and benefits of the management solution include a user-friendly interface, real-time information accessible on multi-devices, integrated finance and operations modules, automated processes, reduced errors, avoided double entry, higher efficiency for all resources, and robust planning features allowing proactivity. “We are very excited about our recent partnership,” says Benoit Gagnon, CEO of Funeral 365. “We developed a funeral-tailored and secure cloud solution for innovative companies like Carriage to centralize and streamline their business processes.” This partnership will bring best practices to the funeral industry and provide Carriage with the ability to improve the experience for families that their businesses serve. Funeral 365 is a cloud-based management solution, powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central designed to achieve optimal accessibility and maximum security. A solution built to help simplify and streamline day-to-day business operations, improve efficiency levels, achieve growth objectives, and deliver the ultimate customer experience. Funeral 365 is with you, every step of the way. INDIANAPOLIS,IN— The Order of the Golden Rule (OGR) is proud to welcome Passages International as its newest Endorsed Supplier. Endorsed suppliers must meet exact requirements and complete an in-depth review process before an endorsement is granted by OGR. The products awarded an endorsement are identified with the OGR Endorsed Supplier logo. The Endorsed Supplier Program is limited to an elite group of industryleading companies offering exclusive benefits, discounts or incentives to OGR member funeral homes. Wendy King, Executive Director/CEO of OGR shares her excitement, “We are so pleased that Passages has chosen to become an Endorsed Supplier with OGR. We value our members and want to give them the best possible experience with our association. In choosing to become an Endorsed Supplier, Passages has allowed us to support them in ways that bring us closer together as partners in our shared mission of making independent funeral homes exceptional.” Darren Crouch, President and co-founder of Passages states, “Passages has partnered with funeral homes since 1999, enabling them to more closely align with the changing demands of the modern funeral consumer. As cremation rates have risen and families have demanded more sustainable and meaningful memorials, Passages has provided the selection and expertise required to keep funeral homes relevant and profitable. We are proud to be approved as an Endorsed OGR Supplier to support the work of premier, privately owned and forward-thinking funeral homeowners.” Passages International’s mission is to provide innovative, compassionate, and meaningful offerings to enrich and personalize the memorialization of a loved one while always keeping an eye on environmental impacts and allowing families to give back to the planet that took care of them. Passages believes in the power of providing compassionate offerings for personal expression. For more information, visit www.passagesinternational.com.
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