Funeral home marketing built around the preplanning conversation

The mail campaign. A documented campaign concept for this vertical is a targeted community-awareness/preneed direct-mail campaign.

The seminar campaign. A documented campaign concept for this vertical is a preneed lunch-and-learn or seminar campaign.

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What the sources document. Funeral-home sources document targeted preneed and community-awareness direct mail designed to generate preplanning conversations.

USPS Domestic Mail Manual 602.5.1 provides that each address, except for mail bearing an alternative address format, in a mailing at commercial First-Class Mail presorted or automation prices or USPS Marketing Mail prices is subject to the Move Update standard, and that each address and associated addressee used on the mailpieces in a mailing must be updated within 95 days before the mailing date with one of the USPS-approved methods in 602.5.2, which include Address Change Service (ACS) and the National Change of Address Linkage System (NCOALink).

USPS Domestic Mail Manual 602.5

The FTC's Funeral Rule guidance for funeral providers states: "You must give consumers who telephone your place of business and ask about your prices or offerings accurate information from your General Price List, Casket Price List, and Outer Burial Container Price List."

FTC, Complying with the Funeral Rule

targeted direct mail →direct mail mailing lists →direct mail cost →

What the sources document. Meta campaigns support general trust-building, preneed guide or consultation requests, and RSVPs for genuine community events; do not target grief, death, or other private hardship.

The campaign concept. A documented campaign concept for this vertical is a respectful Facebook preneed-information-request or state-approved licensed-consultation campaign, with audience and state-rule safeguards.

Meta's Advertising Standards state: "Ads must not contain content that asserts or implies personal attributes. This includes direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person's race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, age, sexual orientation or practices, gender identity, disability, physical or mental health (including medical conditions), vulnerable financial status, voting status, membership in a trade union, criminal record, or name."

Meta, Advertising Standards

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What the sources document. Funeral-care providers explicitly market preplanning seminars, workshops, and lunch-and-learns on topics such as funeral preplanning, cremation options, and grief support.

The FTC's Funeral Rule guidance for funeral providers states that the General Price List must be given, to keep, to anyone who asks in person about funeral goods, funeral services or their prices, and that it must be offered when the provider begins to discuss the type of funeral or disposition it can arrange, the specific goods and services it offers, or its prices.

FTC, Complying with the Funeral Rule

seminar marketing services →seminar direct mail →seminar mailing lists →dinner seminar marketing →

The eight print formats. The print formats documented for this vertical are direct-mail pieces, brochures, flyers, newsletters, preplanning guides and booklets, grief booklets, guidebook series, and pathway cards.

In house. Commercial and variable-data printing are done in-house at MBI.

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