The man from the Pru
Guest post by Quokkagirl When I was no’but a girl, I used to like Friday evenings…..because the man from the Pru used to call. I say the Pru but it could have been any insurance company. I don’t recall the specifics, but it was an insurance man. This was an exciting event because in his […]
Poem
Widow’s Villanelle by Paul Wooldridge Beneath the darkened upper floors you smile and wave, left on your own, with stillness waiting through each door. Redundant now, your faithful chores, that once supported fragile bone beneath the darkened upper floors. That one is left is nature’s flaw. The tiring days and nights alone with […]
Adwords for Funeral Directors
Guest post by Mark Sharron For the second part of this guest post series on SEO for Funeral Directors I’m going to talk about Google Adwords. Adwords is a Google’s Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising system. Adwords went live in early 2000 and has helped tens of thousands of businesses attract new clients. The system […]
Upcoming events
In a host of different venues in Oxford and Oxfordshire over a span of four weeks we offer you a smorgasbord of original, enjoyable and challenging experiences. Over 40 events and nearly 100 participants http://www.kickingthebucket.co.uk/ http://www.changingchelmsford.org/ http://www.livinganddying.co.uk/
Serving gay and black communities
Guest post by Richard Rawlinson Recent talk about preferences for traditional or alternative funeral services was pretty much silenced by the word ‘choice’. In other words, whether it’s a requiem mass preceded by a Victorian-lite cortege or a liturgy-free, no-dress-code send-off in a field, give the punters what they want. This libertarian strain of relativism has […]
Hearse and one?
Guest post by David Holmes As the global recession took hold in 2008, families arranging funerals started cutting back on cost. First to face the chop (forgive the pun) was the lovely black limousine. And why not, they are but frippery, very non-essential, so why pay around £200 to hire one when you can easily do […]
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Guest post by Mark Shaw All this talk of change has led me to look back. As I do, I have to accept I am old enough to have witnessed many changes. Not as many as some, and I hope many more still to see. The supermarket where I would once accompany my mother for the […]
Poem
This is the second poem we have have published by Paul Wooldridge. You can find the first here. Paul started writing poetry following the death of his father and as a result much of it deals with death and grief. Paul is not a poet in the fulltime sense of the word, he is an ordinary person […]
Guest Posts and Beyond: Search Engine Optimisation For Funeral Directors
Guest post by Mark Sharron Okay Charles, challenge accepted. This will be the first in a series of articles where I share some insights into what the readership of this site (people who work in the funeral industry, mostly) can do to increase their search engine exposure. To give you a little background on myself I […]
Write a guest blog post and feel the lift
It takes all sorts to make a GFG mailbag — it’s not all lawyer’s letters from the FBCA, you know. Here’s one: Hello Charles and Good Funeral Guide team, I’m an avid reader of The Good Funeral Guide blog and and would be honoured to contribute by submitting an article. I would love to read […]
