Saturday, November 27, 2010

Funeral Professionals! Don't Be Afraid of Technology

As a funeral professional, you have encountered some of life's most challenging situations - from comforting a grieving widow to consoling the parents of a child who has passed away. Your ability to remain calm and collected is insurmountable. But yet, each of us has our Achilles heal. Is technology yours?

Fear. It can change your life if you let it.

Being afraid of technology and change is a common problem amongst all people. Learning any new process or developing any new skill takes time. Just ask the five year old learning how to ride a bike without training wheels. But, those who overcome their fear of learning new skills and technologies advance in the world and are rewarded.

Thankfully, death care professionals have Frazer Consultants. Every step of the way, Frazer Consultants will be there to hold the seat of the bike as you navigate and embrace their new technology that is revolutionizing the funeral industry.

What Families Want
Today, families are looking for new ways to personalize their loved ones funeral and memorial services. Life is all about options, and families believe that even a funeral, in fact, especially for a funeral, they should have options to create a memorable and meaningful celebration. Families are looking for unique funeral stationery including funeral register books, prayer cards and memorial folders, personalized funeral candles, dvd tribute videos and funeral webcasting.

Providing these personalization options requires advanced technology, but what it doesn't require is a long, arduous learning curve. Having technology that is so advanced, with the ability to truly personalize a funeral or memorial service yet one that is truly easy to use, is what Frazer Consultants can deliver. With access to over 450 professionally designed themes and software that is so robust it's integrated with leading funeral home management software systems that allow for one time data entry -- it's the only solution that you'll ever need.

Taking Off the Training Wheels - 24/7 Support
Frazer Consultants can help you step into the future of funeral technology. No matter what your user level is, Frazer Consultants will be there to assist you every step of the way.

Don't be afraid of technology, your families will thank you.

Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.f

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Frazer Consultants Enhances Funeral Register Books

Frazer Consultants offers the industries most enhanced funeral register books complete with one time data entry due to integration with leading funeral management software companies.


Waunakee, WI., November 24, 2010 - Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the death care profession recently announced several new enhancements of its Tribute Center Software suite part of which funeral homes use to create funeral register books.


Today, families and friends are looking for new ways to personalize their loved ones funeral and memorial services. A unique funeral register book, complete with professionally produced themes and the most advanced printing options, Frazer Consultants Life Journey Stationery offers total personalization to client families. More importantly, this technology is now so advanced, it is integrated with leading funeral home management software companies allowing for true one time data entry.

Due to recent technology developments and partnerships, any of Frazer Consultants 450 pre-formatted, personalized templates can be used to create a professional quality funeral register book at the click of a button. No duplicate entry of data is required. Once the data is housed in the funeral management software, at a click of a button the data can be imported into the Tribute Center and auto fills yours register book for a quick and easy method of creating the ultimate personalized register book. “No other company in the industry can offer this kind of ease” said Matt Frazer of Frazer Consultants.

"It’s our goal to help families and friends celebrate the life of their loved one, and to find comfort in a meaningful funeral register book,” said Frazer. “The Tribute Center Software makes it simple for funeral professionals to quickly and easily design a funeral register book because our software is integrated with the leading funeral management software systems."

When your trying to decide who you are going to partner with for your personalized register book options, the first question you should ask is “does your system integrate with my funeral home management software?”, if the answer is “no”, then keep looking!

Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Frazer Consultants Partners with Coats Funeral Home of Michigan

Coats Funeral Home of Waterford, Michigan joins Frazer Consultants family of death care customers to offer client families world renowned personalization products including tribute videos, personalized printing, and memorial webcasting.

Waunakee, WI., November 23, 2010 - Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the death care profession announces its recent partnership agreement with Coats Funeral Home of Waterford, Michigan. This new agreement enables Coats Funeral Home client families' access to the industries most exceptional personalization products.


Coats Funeral Home has been offering memorial webcasting for over two years to every single family that they serve. To increase the quality of their webcasts with reliable service, Coats was looking to find a superior solution. Frazer Consultants filled that need and exceeded expectations.

“Frazer Consultants has been great to work with! Their service and support is by far one of the best I have had the pleasure to work with,” said Pam Fagan from Coats Funeral Home. “Our funeral home has been committed to meeting the needs of families and thinking outside of the box. Frazer Consultants has helped us to stay on that cutting edge in our community.”

Frazer Consultants Tribute Center Software offers the most innovative, cutting-edge technology to honor the life of a loved one. Giving the funeral professional the ability to create high-end personalized funeral stationery, amazing DVD tribute videos and world class quality live or delayed funeral webcasting -- all in one suite.

“We are pleased that Coats Funeral Home entrusts Frazer Consultants as a personalization and technology partner," said Matt Frazer of Frazer Consultants. "It’s customers like them who are willing to adapt to an ever-so-changing market that will thrive and bring new value to their families and this industry as a whole.”

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Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, funeral candles, remembrance ornaments and funeral keepsakes. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Push the Easy Button with Frazer Consultants Register Books

To be able to personalize a funeral service means everything to a family. They are celebrating the life of their loved one. To think that cookie cutter register books would be good enough, is old school thinking. Survivors are looking to embrace their loved ones unique personalities and show the world what made this person special.

With new technology comes new opportunities.

The growing desire to truly personalize a funeral right down to the register book, affords deathcare professionals an opportunity to provide client families with the ultimate solution. Finding a software program that is easy to use, is affordable and can create professional, personalized funeral register books can mean the difference between a fantastic end result and another time consuming task to complete.

By partnering with Frazer Consultants, the leading personalization and technology company in the industry, funeral homes can create fully customized funeral register books with unsurpassed ease and the finest results. Thanks to Frazer Consultants Tribute Center Software, deathcare professionals have access to state-of-the-art technology and personalization options for which their client families are asking.

Here's what set's Frazer Consultants' register books apart from the crowd:

1. The Ultimate in Personalization
Frazer Consultant's Life Journey Celebration Stationery has over 450 coordinating themes to assist client families full personalization of their life celebration. Other companies offer just one standard template. Additionally, Frazer Consultants offers a selection of eight different register book covers with materials and colors appropriate for men, women and children.

2. True One Time Data Entry
Re-entering data is a time consuming, senseless task. Frazer Consultants is the only company to connect their register book software with funeral home management software companies. For a real easy solution, connection to funeral management systems is a must. There's no duplicate entry, no wasted time - just push a button and your done.

3. Options Galore
Providing deathcare professionals with the most robust software solution that's ten times better than the competition, Frazer Consultants software is the leading choice. Frazer's software gives users full control with a "design mode" which allows the funeral home to set each page's default. Once set, all future tributes are auto populated with the correct data. The book essentially creates itself.

For the only company offering a complete register book solution featuring true one time data entry, total design and personalization control, select Frazer Consultants. Help your client families tell a life story.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

DNA2Diamonds Announces Holiday Special

DNA2Diamonds has launched its end-of-year holiday promotion in which customers are given the opportunity to purchase a custom created diamond at up to forty percent off. An additional thousand dollar jewelry setting credit offer is also available on diamonds one-half carat and larger.

Fort Washington, PA., November 17, 2010
- DNA2Diamonds, a premier creator of lab diamonds custom created from signature carbon (locks of hair or cremated ashes), has announced their holiday special. Through December 31st, 2010, DNA2Diamonds is offering up to forty percent off all of their custom-created signature carbon diamonds. As an added bonus, customers purchasing a half carat or larger personal diamond will also receive a thousand dollar credit on any DNA2Diamond setting.

"These precious and priceless diamonds are created from hair or ashes of people and pets," said Tom Bischoff, President of DNA2Diamonds. "They are one-of-a-kind diamonds for those who want a diamond to be more than just another diamond."

DNA2Diamonds can be created in sizes up to two carats in size. These laboratory grown diamonds are genuine, certified diamonds that are available in various cuts and colors of red, yellow-green, cognac, blue and white. Once created, these loose diamonds and can be set into an unlimited selection of jewelry settings - a ring, pendant, bracelet or earrings.

"DNA2Diamonds are an ideal way to celebrate all of life's special moments -- anniversaries, engagements, births of children, and as memorial diamonds as well," said Bischoff.

This offer is not to be combined with any other offer. To purchase a custom, signature carbon diamond, please visit DNA2Diamonds website at http://www.dna2diamonds.com or call 888-335-3630.

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Maureen McHale
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Funeral Webcasting

The loss of a loved one or friend is a difficult and stressful time. A funeral service allows a mourner a sense of closure and it enables them to honor and celebrate the deceased's life. It is a special and sacred event for all survivors. Unfortunately, many bereaved are not able to attend a funeral or memorial service due to health issues, the shear distance from the funeral service, or the high cost of travel.

Today, the latest funeral technology offers friends and family members access to these special events regardless of their circumstances or their location. Through funeral webcasting, the bereaved can view a memorial at anytime, anywhere in the world, in the privacy of their own home.

Funeral webcasting enables family and friends to take part in their loved one's funeral or memorial service despite illness, finances, or distance. It gives mourners who can't travel the opportunity to watch the service live, just like they were there or watch it later at their convenience.

Recently improved technologies, less expensive broadband, and deployments of the military to Afghanistan and Iraq have all lead to an increase in the use of webcasting. Now survivors who cannot attend a service in person are not just limited to sending sympathy cards and funeral flowers, they too can have closure.

Frazer Consultants' world-renowned Tribute Center software enables funeral homes to offer funeral webcasting using a simple video package including, HD camera, tripod, wireless microphone and USB video capture device. With no long term contract, no upfront costs, no equipment to buy, and no support fees, Frazer Consultants pay-as-you-go system is an ideal solution.

What Funeral Webcasting Could Have Done For My Family

Growing up as part of a large, tight knit family, we were always there for each of life's special occasions. Whether it was a birthday, a graduation, wedding, or funeral, the family came together to celebrate, reminisce and laugh. It's what got us through good times and bad.


As an adult, I find my family fractured. Not in a family fight or disturbing way, but just broken up over the shear distance we now live from each other. Gone are the weekends at the lake in Pennsylvania, the family reunions down the Jersey Shore and the convergence on a banquet facility for a special event.

The main interactions we have now are virtual. My close knit family is now my virtual one. The cousins with which I skipped rocks with on the lake, threw Frisbees with on the beach, and drank root beer straight from the keg and laughed and laughed and laughed again with -- are now avatars and text messages.

In many ways having a virtual family is definitely better than losing touch. I still see the pictures from birthday parties, new additions to the family tree and will occasionally be reminded of an adventure my cousins and I had during our youth. Our chats are sometimes reduced to 140 characters, but sometimes that's part of the fun.

Several years ago, when I heard my favorite Aunt had only hours to live, I booked a flight home. I didn't make it in time, but I was there with the rest of my family for her funeral and it was beautiful. The church was packed. My Uncle delivered her eulogy. There wasn't a dry eye in the building.

What was missing though, was my Father, her only brother. Having been ill for quite some time he didn't have the strength to attend. The flight home, the long drive to the country and the stress of the funeral would have been too much for him to bear. So, as we sat together as a family in a small country church in Northeastern Pennsylvania, my Dad sat at home in Florida -- alone with his memories of his sister.

Had funeral webcasting been available, my Dad would have been able to say good-bye. He would have been able to see our family together and had been a part of that special day. He would have loved the eulogy as it was filled with special memories and funny stories.

I think missing the funeral was something that weighed heavily on him. He often would say with regret that he wished he wasn't confined to the house and could have been there. I wished he had too. The family needed him and he needed us.

The best place on the web to learn more about funeral webcasting is Frazer Consultants. This company has a solid reputation of developing high performing and reliable technology for the deathcare industry. They also have a beautiful selection of funeral keepsakes and holiday remembrance ornaments.

Frazer Consultants Funeral Webcasting Revolutionizes Industry

Frazer Consultants newly released, innovative webcasting software enables mourners to view a live or delayed funeral or memorial service from anywhere in the world, from the comfort of their own home.

Waunakee, WI., November 16, 2010
- A funeral service allows a mourner a sense of closure and enables them to honor and celebrate their loved ones life. Unfortunately, many bereaved are not able to attend a funeral or memorial service due to health issues, the shear distance from the service, or the high cost of travel.

Today, the latest funeral technology, funeral webcasting, offers friends and family members access to these special events regardless of their circumstances or their location. Through funeral webcasting, the bereaved can view a service at anytime, anywhere in the world, in the privacy of their own home.

Frazer Consultants funeral webcasting software makes this all possible with their robust, integrated software suite. This newly launched, revolutionary software features an easy to use, pay-as-you-go solution for funeral homes wanting to offer funeral webcasting.

Included in the software suite are also complete capabilities to create dvd tributes, funeral stationery and digital signs as well. These additional features make it the most streamlined, convenient software available today.

"The Tribute Center Software makes creating each product easy and affordable. With just the click of a mouse you can create a completely personalized service, said Matt Frazer, Consultant with Frazer Consultants. "Because you have complete control to create the products in-house, you'll have what you want when you need it."

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Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes including the award winning Life Journey Candle and Holiday Remembrance Ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

My Father Was Unique, Shouldn't His Funeral Stationery Be Too?

Being raised in the Northeast as part of a large Irish family, the number of relatives I had always astounded my friends. By relatives, I don't just mean people that shared my last name or ones that could be plotted out on a family tree. I had a significant amount of closely related relatives. Here's what I mean, my Mother had one-hundred and thirteen first cousins. Her parents had many brothers and sisters. My Grandmother was one of thirteen and my Grandfather was one of seventeen. My sister and I, in comparison, only had a few first cousins, just eleven.


Overall, our family was huge but we were close, in proximity and in our personal relationships. My relatives held reunions almost yearly and there were several more times during the year we'd all gather, mainly for funerals.

Over the years I began to collect mementos, pieces of funeral stationery, from the funeral services, and there were many. My Grandparents', as well as their brothers and sisters were reaching their 80s. For what seemed like my entire teenage years, my family seemed to be gathering for nothing but wakes.

Now, as an adult, I have this collection of funeral stationery --basically, a box of family history. From prayer cards to memorial folders and bookmarks, I have it all. But, what's odd is how much of it looks alike. Sorting through the box recently, I noticed three or four common themes, obviously preprinted, stock paper with a relatives name, birth date, death date, a verse and sometimes the date of the service. These printed pieces of stationery are not personal, they are cookie-cutter designs.

My own Father's prayer card is among the stack. In 2008, when our funeral director showed us the selection of funeral stationery, my Mother, sister and I, truthfully weren't thrilled at the selection, but what could we do? We had to have them, so we selected a version with seagulls on the front with the words, "Going Home..." It wasn't because of my Dad's fondness for birds, the ocean, or because he considered dying, "Going Home". It was basically the best of the worst, although we wouldn't admit it at the time. Had our funeral director given us a larger choice of themes, this one wouldn't have been looked at twice.

What would my Dad have wanted? Truthfully, he probably wouldn't have cared. But, my Mother, sister and I cared and wanted to have the most personal funeral and mementos possible. We wanted to celebrate his life. He was unique, he had special interests like coins and history, golf and amateur radio. If only our funeral director had something more personal, my Father's prayer card wouldn't be just another piece of paper in the stack.

Frazer Consultants offers a complete, fast and easy solution to personalized stationery. With access to over 450 predesigned and preformatted design layouts, Frazer offers a high level of personalization to funeral home client families'. Templates for virtually every interest, hobby, occupation, and religious background are included in the Tribute Center software. To discover the most professional, low cost, and fully customized funeral printing available, please call 866-372-9372.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Unique Engagement Rings From Hair

An engagement ring symbolizes a couples unique relationship and commitment to each other. New technology allows for the creation of the most personal and unique diamond engagement ring by using locks of hair from the bride and groom.

Many couples prefer unique engagement rings because they are considered the best representation of the couple and their new life together. Gone from the norm are the plain bands and colorless solitary settings. Brides and grooms are moving towards non-conventional settings, cuts and even colors.

In light of this evolving trend, a scientific process that has been around since the fifties is coming to the forefront. This particular process can provide a really unique way to create a diamond that could forever change engagement diamonds. Using this methodology, not only can scientists create genuine diamonds up to two carats in size in a laboratory setting, but they can also alter the chemical composition to be able to create gems in almost any color. And finally, but possibly the most unique factor is that the diamond that is the result of this process originates from hair.

To start the process, when the bride and groom each get a haircut, they can send the trimmings to a diamond creation laboratory. The sample will then placed under high temperatures and high heat, replicating the natural growth cycle of an earth mined diamond. The only difference is the source of carbon. In nature, the carbon is taken from the earth, in a man made custom diamond lab, it's taken from the personal carbon source.

These hair diamonds can be grown to the engaged couple's exact specifications of color and size. When the growth phase is complete, the diamond can be cut, polished and mounted in a setting according to the couple's wishes.

In approximately 70 days, depending on the carat size desired, the hair has been completely converted to a genuine, flawless diamond. No two will be alike because they contain the essence of a couples love, together forever in a precious stone.

With the ability to create a diamond from hair, a whole new level of personalization has opened up affording couples the most unique of engagement rings.

Fancy Colored Diamond Engagement Rings

As non-conventional engagement rings are becoming the norm, technology is helping couples create the diamonds of their dreams. Read how scientific breakthroughs can have wonderful side effects, including the development of fancy colored diamond engagement rings.


Historically, a groom wishing to present his bride the diamond of her dreams, mainly concentrated on the size of the stone. In some instances, he may have had some diamond education and learn about cuts and clarity. However, more frequent than not, the diamonds being purchased were colorless white ones.

As more non-traditional couples are now selecting rings together, new trends are emerging. Couples are moving away from conventional settings, cuts and even colors. The freedom of creating their own personal diamond allows even greater possibilities of individuality.

Trends are emerging that with brides being able to provide input regarding their diamond engagement ring, they are selecting non-traditional, fancy colored diamonds more frequently. Unfortunately, the cost for these colored diamonds can rival their beauty.

Fortunately, a scientific process that has been around since the fifties can provide a couple the colored diamond of their dreams for a more affordable price. Using this methodology, not only can scientists create genuine diamonds up to two carats in size in a laboratory setting, but they can also alter the chemical composition to be able to create gems in almost any color - blue, red, cognac, yellow-green and even white.

Another interesting component of the technology is that scientists can use a personal carbon source, such as hair, in the growth process of the diamond. In nature when a diamond is created, the carbon is pulled from the earth. But, these clever scientists have found a way to really personalize these man made diamonds even further. Brides and grooms go off and get a hair cut and then send in the clippings to use in the high heat, high pressure process.

In seventy days or less, not only will these fancy colored diamonds be a symbol of a couples unique style because they will be customized according to their exact wishes of color, cut and size. But, the diamond that they will have created for them will forever contain their personal essence as well.

Who says scientists aren't romantic?

Sunday, November 14, 2010

How Technology is Changing Funeral Register Books

Today, families are looking for new ways to personalize their loved ones funeral and memorial services. Life is all about options, and families believe that even a funeral, in fact, especially for a funeral, they should have options to create a memorable and meaningful celebration.


Families are looking for unique funeral stationery including funeral register books, prayer cards and memorial folders, personalized funeral candles, dvd tribute videos and funeral webcasting.

Specifically, a unique funeral register book and other personalized stationery honors a loved one and speaks to mourners in a meaningful way. Creating custom-made funeral register books for client families help them tell their loved ones story. It reminds mourners, at a glance, what made their loved one special.

Whereas a generic funeral register book misses an opportunity to help survivors, a personalized register book can provide a real opportunity to celebrate life and cherish the unique and individual spirit of their loved one. Furthermore, funeral homes that are still creating generic, simple and standard register books are now completing with a fast growing sector of technology smart funeral homes that provide these personalization options.

As a funeral professional, you have encountered some of life's most challenging situations - from comforting a grieving widow to consoling the parents of a child who has passed away. Your ability to remain calm and collected is insurmountable. But yet, each of us has our Achilles heal. Is technology yours?

In order to be able to offer your client families the best options for funeral register books and other funeral stationery, change is inevitable. The good news is that new technologies exist today that are easy to use and very cost effective.

Being afraid of technology and change is a common problem amongst all people. Learning any new process or developing any new skill takes time. Just ask the five year old learning how to ride a bike without training wheels. But, those who overcome their fear of learning new skills and technologies advance in the world and are rewarded.

Don't be afraid of technology, your families will thank you.

Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Personalized Candles - a Special Funeral Keepsake

Funeral keepsakes are an important part of the grieving process. They can provide comfort to family and friends following loss. When a loved one passes away it's natural to want a special memento to remember them. These precious and priceless reminders can include a variety of items from prayer cards, to bookmarks, holiday remembrance ornaments, and even personalized candles.

Candle mementos provide not only a cherished reminder of a beloved one after the memorial or funeral service but they can also be used during the service as well. Many find the soothing effect of seeing the candle burn a real comfort. In fact, a recent study concluded that over 40% of funeral homes use some sort of personalized candle at every service.

Frazer Consultants offers funeral homes the ability to create an endless possibility of personalized funeral keepsake candles. With the Life Journey Celebration Candle, the creation requires using nothing more than a computer, a standard ink-jet or laser printer and Frazer Consultants' robust software. Over 450 design themes are pre-programmed to allow funeral homes to create the most personalized mementos quickly and easily.

The flexibility of the four-sided funeral keepsake allows the funeral home to offer both themed candles as well as candles with one or four different photographs. They can be created also to include a special poem, bible text, and/or other sentimental text.

A funeral keepsake is a wonderful way to honor a loved one and to celebrate their life. The Life Journey Celebration Candle, is an ideal choice to provide family and friends with lasting memories of those that have departed.

Frazer Consultants

Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes including the award winning Life Journey Candle and Holiday Remembrance Ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Say Good-Bye to Generic Funeral Register Books

A unique funeral register book and other personalized stationery honors a loved one and speaks to mourners in a meaningful way.


Creating custom-made funeral register books for client families help them tell their loved ones story. It reminds mourners, at a glance, what made their loved one special.

Whereas a generic funeral register book misses an opportunity to help survivors, a personalized register book can provide a real opportunity to celebrate life and cherish the unique and individual spirit of their loved one. Furthermore, funeral homes that are still creating generic, simple and standard register books are now completing with a fast growing sector of technology smart funeral homes that provide these personalization options.

Why Partner with Frazer Consultants?

Unlike any other funeral stationery, Frazer Consultants' Life Journey Stationery funeral register books are of the industries highest quality, the largest variety and are the easiest, most cost effective register books to produce.

With over 450 professionally designed themes for every interest, hobby, occupation, and religious background, Life Journey register books aren't the tired funeral stationery of yester-year. Printing on-demand, from blank stock instead of pre-printed paper, Life Journey Stationery provides a truly personalized funeral register book at a low, fixed cost per page rate. Additionally, Frazer Consultants robust, world renowned software is integrated with leading funeral management software systems that allow for one time data entry.

Generic funerals are a thing of the past. No two lives are alike, and no two funeral register books should be either. Learn more about what Frazer Consultants can do for you and your client families.

Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Friday, November 5, 2010

How Funeral Stationery Has Changed

New funeral technology affords relief to deathcare professional allowing them to offer a high level of personalization with easy to use software and a low cost print on-demand program.


Funeral stationery is evolving. With new technology advances, personalized funeral stationery has made huge strides. Deathcare professionals now have the ability to offer client families almost an unlimited selection for a truly personalized and complete set of funeral stationery. This new technology has eased the worries of cost, inventory concerns, difficulty of production and timeliness for funeral homes as well.

Traditionally, a funeral home would purchase pre-printed paper for the stationery. A funeral home may have only had a few options for families to choose because of the cost to stock and inventory each design and each individual item. Re-orders had to be managed and timed perfectly so as not to run out of a particular item. To add to the issue, suppliers required minimum orders, which meant large, expensive outlays. Managing the inventory, repetitively inputting the deceased's information for each piece of stationery, and controlling costs consumed large blocks of time.

The pre-historic days of funeral stationery are gone for good. Today, funeral stationery can be quickly and easily printed on-demand from blank, perforated stock using software driven templates. Now, client families are able to choose from a wide variety of personalization options and funeral homes no longer need to inventory pre-printed stock. Everything needed from register book pages, memorial folders, prayer cards, acknowledgements, bookmarks, signs, dvd packaging, and even candles can all be printed in this manner.

Not only does the new funeral software include over 450 predesigned and preformatted design layouts, the software is also compatible with certain funeral home management software, such as SRS Computing. Therefore, funeral home client families' receive a high level of personalization with templates for virtually every interest, hobby, occupation, and religious background included. Funeral homes are able to input the deceased's information one time and the stationery software does the rest.

Using the funeral homes own printing equipment, or a fixed low cost-per-page program, this print-on-demand stationery, is specifically an attractive feature not locking a funeral home into printing a particular sum if it isn't necessary. With this type of specialized software, a funeral home can print only what's needed, when it's needed and know the result will be the most professional, low cost, and fully customized funeral printing available.

Funeral stationery, has always been an important facet of the funeral service. The stationery not only serves as a keepsake for those who were present at the service, it also allows funeral home client families' to better honor, celebrate, remember, and tell the life story. To have a solution that can quickly, easily and cost effectively create the most personalized funeral stationery is to be able to offer the best possible keepsake for client families.

Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes including the award winning Life Journey Candle and Holiday Remembrance Ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Fast and Easy Funeral Stationery

Personalized funeral stationery allows families to better honor, celebrate, remember, and tell a loved ones life story.


Funeral stationery, no matter what form it is in, is an important facet of the funeral service. The stationery not only serves as a keepsake for those who were present at the service, it also allows funeral home client families' to better honor, celebrate, remember, and tell the life story.

Funeral stationery is not what it used to be. Traditionally, a funeral home would purchase pre-printed paper for the stationery which meant stocking inventory of each design and each individual item. In many instances, to control costs or because of a supplier policy, deathcare professionals would need to order a minimum number of each item. The expense to house and maintain this inventory meant the number of selections were limited. A funeral home may have only had two or three options from which families could choose.

Today, because of technology advances, deathcare professionals and client families not only have a vast assortment of personalization options to choose from, but there's also no need to inventory pre-printed stock. Funeral stationery can now be printed on demand from blank, perforated stock using software driven layouts. Everything needed from register book pages, memorial folders, prayer cards, acknowledgements, bookmarks, signs, dvd packaging, and even candles can all be printed in this manner.

More deathcare professionals are choosing to use the faster and easier way of creating high quality, personalized funeral stationery through the use of these design layouts. Doing so makes perfect sense in the funeral industry because funeral planning is such a time sensitive event. The majority of families do not have a lot of time to devote to the creation of personalized funeral stationery. Yet, they certainly want to create a special keepsake for family, friends, and attendees at their loved one's final life celebration.

Frazer Consultants offers a complete, fast and easy solution to personalized stationery. With access to over 450 predesigned and preformatted design layouts, Frazer offers a high level of personalization to funeral home client families'. Templates for virtually every interest, hobby, occupation, and religious background are included in the Tribute Center software.

Using the funeral homes own printing equipment, or a fixed low cost-per-page program, Frazer Consultants print-on-demand stationery, is specifically an attractive feature not locking a funeral home into printing a particular sum if it isn't necessary. With Frazer's Tribute Center software, a funeral home can print only what's needed, when it's needed and know the result will be the most professional, low cost, and fully customized funeral printing available.

Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes including the award winning Life Journey Candle and Holiday Remembrance Ornaments. For more information, please call 866-372-9372.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Funeral Web Design

Creating a funeral home website design that is simple, intuitive, and interactive will set you apart from the competitor down the street.

Partnering with a professional company that has experience with funeral home websites is key to creating a website design that is sharp in appearance, yet easy for client families to navigate. Using an industry specific company that solely concentrates on the funeral industry can provide a high quality product that has been tested by hundreds of others.

The basic components that are a must in every funeral home website are:

• Obituaries
• Online Video Tributes
• Online Pre-Arrangement Form
• Online Guest Book
• Contact Page
• Resource Page
• Social Media Integration

Enhancing a website with other interactive options such as memorial, visitation, service and cemetery information is also a good idea. The more online information a funeral home can provide to families and friends of the deceased, the better.

Other features some funeral homes are selecting are:
• Single or Album Photo Upload
• Pre-Planning Module
• Obituary Notification System
• Virtual Showroom
• Online Guest Book
• Pre-Planning Information
• Content Management System
• Community Events Calendar
• Map and Directions
• Contact Form

Selecting the most fitting modules for your website will greatly impact the overall design of the funeral homes website; however, it's extremely important to find a total solutions provider. Not only should a funeral home website design company create a great website, but they should also be able to register a domain, set up email, ensure search engine submission and optimization and provide statistical reports.

For a funeral home website design solution that empowers the funeral professional and delivers an interactive experience to the families they serve, contact Frazer Consultants. Their funeral home website designs can help set your funeral home apart from the competitor down the street.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

New Tribute Center Now Compatible with SRS Computing Funeral Home Management Software

Frazer Consultants new all-in-one suite funeral personalization software for tribute videos, personalized printing and live or delayed webcasts is now compatible with SRS Computing funeral home management software.


Waunakee, WI., October 28, 2010 - Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the death care profession has announced that their new Tribute Center All-in-One Suite funeral personalization software has been made compatible with SRS Computing funeral home management software.

This compatibility enhancement allows death care professionals to import data from their management system directly into the Tribute Center.

"For all mutual customers using SRS and the Tribute Center, they now have true one time data entry," said Matt Frazer, consultant with Frazer Consultants.

Streamlining personalization products ease of use even further, the Tribute Centers new compatibility with SRS ensures the customer will not have to retype any data. At the click of a button, death care professionals are able to import all case data to auto fill the required fields in the Tribute Project, which produces tribute videos, personalized funeral stationery, and live or delayed webcasts.

“Frazer Consultants is excited to have worked with Scott Simons from SRS to make this integration possible,” said Frazer. "SRS is a great company and has a true dedication to the funeral industry. We are extremely pleased with their cooperation. This integration is a win-win-win for SRS, Frazer Consultants, and the mutual funeral home client.”

Frazer Consultants is in the process of making their software compatible with several other funeral home management companies.

SRS Computing
Since 1999, SRS Computing has been setting the industry standard in custom software applications designed exclusively for management of the funeral home, crematory, and cemetery industries. More information can be found at www.srscomputing.com or call 800-797-4861.

Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes. For more information, please call 866-372-9372.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

What to Know When Considering Home Care

Determining if your parents are able to remain in their own home can be a challenge. Doing the research into their finances, current care needs, and determining if they really can take care of themselves can be a daunting task. Often aging parents, while they may admit they need help, whether it's financially or medically, they refuse to take the next step to an unfamiliar assisted living facility, continuing care retirement community or nursing home.

While each situation is different and a full evaluation should be done to assure your parents are receiving the proper care, an option to consider at this juncture may be Home Care.


Highlights of Home Care:
  • The ability to stay in one's own home while receiving some assistance.
  • Paid assistance is available from a few hours to entire 24-hour care.
  • Medicare and Medicaid cover some parts of home care.
  • Home health aides or nurses are usually paid by the hour or day
    • Home Health Aide $20+/hour and Skilled Nursing - $400 +/day.
  • If starting home care, be present during the first several aide visits.
Questions to ask if Hiring in Help:
  • What services are needed?
  • Will the same home health professional provide care?
  • How long has the service been in business? (and ask for references)
  • Does Provider do background checks, bonding, training classes?

Barbara McVicker
Barbara McVicker is one of the nation’s leading eldercare experts and national speakers for some of the largest companies, organizations, and healthcare institutions. Barbara is based in Columbus, OH. With additional offices in Roanoke, VA, Madison, WI and Los Angeles, CA, Barbara travels frequently and is available for taped or live appearance or phone interview upon request.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Frazer Consultants Launches Online Training Video for New Software

Death care professionals can now view an online training video demonstrating Frazer Consultants new all-in-one suite funeral personalization software for tribute videos, personalized printing and live or delayed webcasts.

Waunakee, WI., October 25, 2010 - Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the death care profession has created a step-by-step and convenient training video to demonstrate their new Tribute Center All-in-One Suite funeral personalization software.


Providing back office technology that is easy and affordable, the Tribute Center enables death care professionals the ability to create high quality tribute memorial videos, personalized printed materials and perform simple high tech webcasts with a few keystrokes.

"Our new software, coupled with the training video provides our customers with the ability to easily and consistently create the most complete, high quality, personalized memorial products," said Matt Frazer, consultant with Frazer Consultants.


The newly launched training video, which can be watched at the customers convenience, starts with a brief overview of the Tribute Center. The viewer is then guided through the system module by module. Each module provides tips for easy point-and-click use and highlights the benefits of the particular personalization component.

"We encourage every customer that utilizes our software to watch the training video," said Frazer. "It's a great tool for staff training and is very convenient because they can watch it whenever they want."

The training video includes easy to follow instructions so that once the user finishes the training they will be able to quickly and easily create tribute videos, personalized funeral stationery, live or delayed webcasts, and personalized keepsakes.

"Frazer Consultants vision is to help each and every funeral home offer more personalized services through the use of our highly user friendly tools and technologies," said Frazer. "Our new Tribute Center All-in-One-Suite turns this vision into reality."

Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Holiday Remembrance Ornaments

Remembrance ornaments are an expression of comfort, condolence, honor, understanding, peace and healing.

These memorial ornaments are a wonderful way to remember a loved one. The name and memorial dates of a loved one can be featured,creating a truly unique keepsake to treasure.

A personalized remembrance ornament is an appropriate, touching keepsake. Families can make the holidays extra special by creating these unique memorial keepsakes.

Memorial Gift Ideas

Remembrance ornaments can be a comforting and thoughtful gift for those who have lost loved ones. A personalized ornament can be given as a memorial gift to remember a mother, father, child, grandparent, or special friend. They can be a simple token of appreciation given by a funeral home or hospice. They can also be offered in connection with funeral pre-planning or aftercare services or presented during a holiday remembrance program.

How to Create a Remembrance Ornament

New technology and software gives death care professionals the ability to create personalized memorial ornaments in-house, quickly and easily.

Using a delicate, hand-blown ornament tipped with 22k gold, a software template, adhesive decals, and a laser printer, death care professionals can create a special memorial keepsake for their client families.

Each holiday ornament can be quickly and easily personalized in-house with the name and dates of the deceased or any other text required. Once personalized, each ornament can be placed in it's individual gift box, which is included, for presentation to the family and safe keeping.

Keep a loved ones memory alive during the holidays with a memorial ornament. 

Holiday Remembrance Ornaments are a wonderful way to remember a loved one or even a beloved pet who has died. Frazer Consultants personalization software gives death care professionals the ability to quickly and easily, create in-house, a personalized holiday remembrance ornament. For more information, or to request a sample ornament, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Frazer Consultants Funeral Personalization Software Webinar a Success

Last Wednesday, Frazer Consultants held a webinar to present their brand new all-in-one suite, the Tribute Center. Funeral Home participants declared the webinar a success and praised the software as being powerful and affordable.

Waunakee, WI., October 21, 2010 - Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the death care profession conducted a widely successful webinar on Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 to demonstrate their new funeral personalization software.


Webinar attendees learned how to create stunning video tributes, amazing personalized print items, and offer live or delayed funeral webcasts.

"I can't believe how the webcasting system worked. The ease of use and features are unmatched by another other webcasting provider in the industry," said Mark Cournoyer, of Cournoyer Funeral Home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

With more than 170 funeral homes logged in to participate in the webinar, attendees declared the presentation a success and indicated that the software is amazing.

"The week before the webinar, we unveiled the All-in-One Personalization Software at the NFDA convention in New Orleans" said Matt Frazer, consultant at Frazer Consultants. "The response at the convention and from the webinar has been truly remarkable. Our customers cannot believe how easy to use and affordable we have made this system -- opting for either the pay as you go plan or the monthly unlimited plan."

Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes. For more information please call 866-372-9372.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

My First Christmas Without My Dad

The Perfect Memorial Gift, a Holiday Remembrance Ornament

My Father passed away in January of 2008 after a long struggle with respiratory issues which stemmed from years of smoking. He smoked when my sister and I were kids even when we begged him not to as we rode in the backseat of the car going on family vacations. He smoked when my Grandmother was in the hospital dying of breast cancer, from smoking. He smoked when he got up in the morning, when he cut the grass, after he ate dinner at night. It was hard to picture him at a time when he didn't have a cigarette in his hand, up to his mouth or just lighting up another one - even though he had yet to finish the last.

My Dad was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1982. We were on a family vacation to Ireland and England when he first got sick. Five years later, and after a quarter of his right lung had been removed, my Dad was declared cancer free. But, the years of smoking had taken it's toll and would linger with him and cause many medical problems for the rest of his life.

The months after my Father passed were some of the most difficult of my life. Not only had my Father died, I had left a job I'd had for a dozen years, I had recently gotten divorced, and two of my beloved golden retrievers had died. Like most things in my life, when things get tough, I jump in and fight.

I needed a project -- something to keep me busy. I think better when I'm busy. Buying and renovating my home with my fiancé was probably what kept me sane during those difficult months after my Father's death. After six months of work, we finally were able to move in and planned to invite both families to celebrate Christmas day in our new home.

I knew the first Christmas without my Dad would be tough. But, I didn't really know exactly how I would feel or what would happen. All I knew was I was that fifteen people were coming for dinner and I was cooking.

Thoughts ran through my head. Christmas Day. A home my Father never lived to see. The hours of labor I had put into it with him looking down on me were over. Now it was time to celebrate the holiday, with my family.
In the back of my head I kept expecting to see him, for him to just show up, to tell me Merry Christmas, and to say what a great job we did with the house. But, at the same time, I knew different.

As we opened the presents, my Mother handed me a box. Just something for the tree, she said. I unwrapped and opened the box and felt the tears start burning down my face. My fiancé had been in the other room. Walking in, he was startled to see me so upset standing in front of the tree with my Mother. What's wrong? All I could do was to hand him the box. Inside was an ornament with the words: Dad, January 13, 1928 - January 3, 2008.

My Mom had found a poem and had carefully typed out part of it on a small card and enclosed it with the holiday ornament. The card read: Have a Merry Christmas and Wipe away that tear...Remember, I am spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year.


Holiday Remembrance Ornaments are a wonderful way to remember a loved one or even a beloved pet who has died. Frazer Consultants personalization software gives death care professionals the ability to quickly and easily, create in-house, a personalized holiday remembrance ornament. For more information, or to request a sample ornament, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Frazer Consultants Partners with Oki Data Americas to Provide Affordable Printing for Funeral Homes

Frazer Consultants entered into a partnership agreement with Oki Printing Solutions to provide funeral homes fixed cost per page printing.


Waunakee, WI., October 20, 2010 - Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the death care profession announced its recent partnership agreement with Oki Printing Solutions to provide affordable color printing to funeral homes. This partnership agreement is a key piece to their print-on-demand funeral stationery system.

Frazer Consultants print-on-demand system for funeral stationery utilizes blank-stock to provide client families with over 450 personalized stationery designs from which to choose. Each theme includes a layout for a register book, memorial folder, prayer card, acknowledgement, book mark, sign, dvd packaging, and a candle.

"Pairing our print-on-demand personalization software with an Oki laser printer, funeral homes will have a total personalized print solution available for almost one-third of the cost of standard printing," said Matt Frazer, a consultant with Frazer Consultants.

With two packages to choose from, Oki will provide a color laser duplex printer for easy, cost-efficient two-sided printing. Functioning like a leasing program, the printer is provided for a set monthly amount. It is networked so that Oki can detect when toner is low and automatically dispatch a replacement cartridge direct to the funeral home so there is no down time.

"Our objective was to provide a print-on-demand system that offers ultimate personalized funeral stationery at an affordable price," said Frazer. "The Tribute Center all-in-one-suite is a dream come true for funeral home clients across North America. You can now get rid of all your pre-printed stock (inventory) and only inventory blank-stock and print on demand what you need, when you need it. This not only makes your life easier with less inventory, but increases the value of your services to your client families through ultimate personalized funeral stationery packages. All completed in-house and with no extra effort. This new agreement with Oki is truly ground breaking and the solution to affordability - enabling our funeral home partners to print at a fixed cost per page and offer their families unlimited personalization options."


Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral keepsakes. For more information, please call 866-372-9372.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Fantom G8™ - Cost Savings Uncovered

Fonon Display and Semiconductor Systems’ Fantom G8™ utilizes Zero Width Laser Cutting Technology™ (ZWLCT™) which allows scribing applications to be processed with tremendous speed, no material loss, and no chips or other debris associated with conventional scribe and break techniques. Additionally, ZWLCT™ maintains the integrity of the glass, making it three to five times mechanically stronger.

The Fantom G8™ splits materials at the molecular level with tremendous speed, no material loss, and no chips or other debris associated with conventional scribe and break techniques, it is ideal for ultra thin and larger G8-G11 size panels”, said Demitri Nikitin, CEO of Fonon Display and Semiconductor Systems. “Plus, the cost savings on the Fantom G8™ are tremendous and our prices not only include installation, but startup, and training as well.”
Consider the Savings:
  • The Fantom G8™ is a low cost solution for precision glass scribing priced the same as or less than precision mechanical scribers.
  • The Fantom G8™will produce glass panels without any additional edge processing, eliminating the grinding and cleaning line.
  • The Fantom G8™ features adjustable loading and unloading positions for in-line integration saving valuable processing time.
  • The Fantom G8™ is “plug-n-play”. It’s easy to install, quick to start-up and its operators training requirement levels are reduced.
  • The Fantom G8™ requires no laser service, no gas consumption, no optical alignments, and no optics cleaning.
  • The Fantom G8™’s modular design utilizes standard components for easier service.
  • The Fantom G8 can be easily integrated into an inline system.