Tribute Video Software for Funeral Professionals

As tribute videos are gaining in popularity, there is a need for funeral home professionals to be able to create them to save their client families frustration, time and money.  With tribute video creation software, you have every tool you need to create a world class, stunning and personalized video tribute.

Video tributes are among the most requested items that client families have been making to create a truly personalized funeral service.  As opposed to a static presentation of photographs attached to boards, tribute videos have the power to completely transform the emotional tone of the service. 

Making a tribute video itself is a breeze. With three simple steps, importing photos and videos, editing to suit your needs and burning to DVD, you have created a video tribute sure to impress. 

Importing the Photos and Video:  With high-speed scan technology, you can scan one photo every three seconds.  Furthermore, you can use as many or as few photos as you wish. 

Once scanned and uploaded you can select a coordinating template to match with your funeral stationery and other items.  With more than 500 Life Journey themes to choose from, your client family will not have difficulty finding a theme to express their loved one.  Representing the vast majority of hobbies, professions, service and religious affiliations, the life journey themes help establish a foundation of who the deceased was during life. 

There are more than 80 moving video clips available that promote the ethereal elements such as waterfalls, clouds, sunrises and animals express the life - death - rebirth cycle of nature.  Of course, your client families may wish to use personal videos if they choose. 

Editing the Tribute:  The software automatically sets transitions from screen to screen for you and syncs music to movement with the smart movie creation technology.   A photo editor feature allows you to touch up a photo, reduce red eyes and restore color.  You can also add professional motion effects to each photo with pan/zoom technology.  It takes only seconds to do and adds vibrancy and dynamism to the video that will keep viewers engaged.  

The software also provides a selection of Hollywood style introductions and endings to the video that add to the professionalism of the final piece.   An online music library with artists that have been exclusively licensed can help set the tone.  Music ranges from vocal to instrumental and provides comfort, hope and meaning to services.  Or you can use music selected by client families. 

Burning to DVD:  Once your tribute video is complete, with a click of the button you can burn it to DVD.  Create as many copies as the families wish to purchase and remind them that they can always reorder more later too.

Creating a moving and fully customized presentation, tribute videos have an extended life as far as keepsakes go.  Putting together a world-class video in-house is unbelievably easy with the tribute video creation software. 


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, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments.  For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Benefits of Dance

Not only does dancing make you feel great – there are several other benefits to participating in a dance class.

Dancing Your Way to Healthy
Dancing is a great way to get kids and adults alike off the couch and moving towards a healthier mind and body.  Studies show that dancing can help you lose weight, stay flexible, reduce stress, and diminish depression.

Weight Loss:    Aerobic dancing can help you lose weight.  According to a study published in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology, an aerobic exercise program was as helpful in weight loss as was jogging and cycling.

Flexibility:  Almost every move your body makes during a dance class is essentially increasing your flexibility and reducing stiffness.  A more flexible body also means decreased joint pain.
Stress Reduction:  The best remedy to a stressful time is to get moving.  Dance and the accompanying music can release tension and stress according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Ease Depression:  Dancing really can lift your spirits and improve your mood!   Studies have concluded that patients who suffered from depression were able to reduce their symptoms by participating in an upbeat dance group.

Dancing Improves Memory
Along with the benefits of having better balance, dance helps your mind age gracefully!  The New England Journal Medicine published a study that showed that dancing may actually boost your memory and prevents you from developing dementia as you age.  Aerobic exercise has also been shown to reverse the volume loss in the hippocampus – the part of your brain that controls memory.  Normally, as people age, the hippocampus naturally shrinks leading to impaired memory and even dementia.

Helping Your Heart
For those at risk of developing cardiovascular disease due to family history or sedentary lifestyle, dance is a great option to improve health.  An Italian study found that patients with heart failure improved their health by dancing the waltz.  In the controlled group study, patients breathing capabilities and quality of life improved significantly over a second test group that exercised by walking, biking or using a treadmill.

Dance for More Energy & More Friends
Yet another study published in The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition has found that adults who participated in a weekly dance class can increase the energy levels.  Additionally, dance classes provide an ideal opportunity to meet new people and to socialize.  Having positive relationships is as important to a person’s well-being as is having a healthy body.

About Wagner Dance and Music
Since 1989, Wagner Dance and Music, a performing arts school, has been teaching East Valley students. Our 3600 square foot Gilbert facility is conveniently located on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in the Big Lots plaza. We offer classes for ages 2 to adult in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Tumbling, Cheer, Musical Theater and Voice as well as adult classes.  For more information about Student Appreciation Day or to sign up for a class, visit http://wagnerdancearts.com or call 480-892-7179.

Print on Demand and be in Control of your Funeral Stationery

Revolutionize your funeral home operations with incredibly easy stationery production.  With templates that allow for personalization of all stationery and print on demand features, you eliminate the print house – and your frustration.

Modern society moves at a fast and furious rate, needing everything immediately.  In our competitive world, if it’s not provided when the customer wishes, there’s always the next guy down the street.  But this is only if the customer is not able to do at home whatever it is that’s needed.  With technology available to practically everyone, and software programs that do many things that used to be done only by professionals, it’s not difficult to become an expert at almost anything!  Small businesses also are enjoying the many benefits of moving services in-house.  Funeral homes have welcomed it too, particularly the ability to print-on-demand.

With software designed specifically for the funeral industry, creating funeral stationery is exceptionally easy.  Templates direct you where to place content and there are 500 beautiful themes that represent almost every profession, religious belief, hobby or interest.  With the print on demand feature, there is absolutely no need to deal with the frustrations that accompany working with print houses – missed deadlines, errors in content and restricted options.

After you’ve designed customized stationery options - such as register book pages, memorial folders, prayer cards, acknowledgements, bookmarks, signs, DVD packaging, and even candles – you print on blank perforated stock the exact quantity needed when you need it.   If more visitors than expected attend the service, you just print more copies of whatever you require.  A drastic change from in the past when you would have to order each item in set quantities with minimal design options.  The items would need to be stocked and re-orders needed to be well planned in order to maintain inventory.

The funeral home can use its own printing equipment or a low fixed cost per page program.    Although comparable in cost to pre-printed stationery, print on demand offers so much more flexibility and ease of mind in avoiding all the potential pitfalls of working with print houses.
The combination of software with so many options in design and the simplicity of blank perforated stock that can be used for almost every funeral stationery item desired streamlining your operations immensely.  No planning is needed, no missed deadlines are worried about.  You have all the control right there in your funeral home.  Furthermore, you have so much more to offer your client families.   Revolutionize your funeral home and look into software with customizable templates and print-on-demand features. 

If you haven't already done so, consider switching from outsourcing your funeral stationery printing or using generic templates to utilizing the latest funeral software.  The ease at which you can provide a fully customized funeral in minutes will amaze you and please your client families as well.

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, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments.  For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

How Kinderdance Can Help Your Child’s Development

Kinderdance is a dance, basic gymanastics and fitness program designed for children ages two and up.  Children who begin learning to dance at an early age receive the benefits of not only participating in a dance fitness program, but also the class will help a child’s development at the same time. 

Child development can be divided into four categories:  cognitive development, physical development, social and emotional development, and communication skills.  Because these areas of development overlap, one category is reinforced and enhanced by growth in others.   Enrolling your child in a Kinderdance class enhance the development of all four areas of child development.

Cognitive Development refers to how a person perceives, thinks, and gains understanding of his or her world through the interaction of genetic and learned factors.  It has been said that early movement experiences are beneficial to optimal brain development. The stimulation children receive from dance combined with decision making exercises leave children with a mind ready to absorb information and learn new things.

Physical Development is important to anyone over the age of two years of age.  Thirty minutes of moderate endurance-type physical exercise can help children develop basic motor skills, laying a foundation for an active childhood which can motivate them to participate in other activities for years to come.

Social and Emotional Development includes a child’s development of self – including self-awareness, self-regulation and his or her ability to interact and react with other people.   Dancing together with others, helps children not only build their self-esteem but also see and appreciate that others are different than themselves.  Such peer activities can also help a child gain personal control and can lengthen their attention span. 

Communication Skills are certainly an important skill for every child to develop.  Many children learn by touching everything as they learn.  Kinderdance helps children learn by watching others, and learn how to follow audible clues, such as clapping their hands to the beat of the music.

Some of the dance techniques that can be taught during a Kinderdance class are ballet, tap, tumbling and creative movement.  In addition to being a beginner dance class, Kinderdance helps develop gross motor skills, movement creativity, fitness, and body awareness.  During each Kinderdance class, age-appropriate music and songs are incorporated. 

Children will need pint ballet slippers and any color leotard, with or without tights for Kinderdance 1.  Those children enrolling in Kinderdance 2 and Kinderdance3 will also need black tap shoes.

About Wagner Dance and Music
Since 1989, Wagner Dance and Music, a performing arts school, has been teaching East Valley students. Our 3600 square foot Gilbert facility is conveniently located on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in the Big Lots plaza. We offer classes for ages 2 to adult in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Tumbling, Cheer, Musical Theater and Voice as well as adult classes.  For more information about Student Appreciation Day or to sign up for a class, visit http://wagnerdancearts.com or call 480-892-7179.

Profitability of Funeral Stationery Software

Your funeral home will enjoy healthy profits by using funeral personalization software to create funeral stationery and related items.  Your client families will appreciate the many ways to personalize their loved ones funeral.  A win-win for everybody!

When you install funeral personalization software on your computer, you have completely revolutionized the way you run your funeral business.  Everything you need to create stationery, digital signs, tribute videos, candles, on-line funerals and even holiday remembrance ornaments is right at your fingertips.  From design to production you have complete control of the creation of a broad range of products to fully personalize a funeral service. Your client families have a diverse but easily categorized selection to bid a final farewell that truly represents their loved ones.

Designing funeral stationery is surprisingly easy with the template driven software.  With 500 themes for your client families to select from to create pieces that represent their loved ones interests in life.  Adding photos, anecdotes or even videos where appropriate results in fully personalized funeral stationery and other pieces such as register book pages, memorial folders, prayer cards, acknowledgements, bookmarks, signs, DVD packaging, candles and even remembrance holiday ornaments. 

When considering the bottom line, you stand to profit agreeably by using this software in your funeral home.  Offering three stationery packages to accommodate client families’ budgets and needs, you are providing top quality pieces perfectly reflective of the deceased for good prices while making a healthy profit.  Each package includes a register book, 100 memorial folders or tri-folds, and 50 Acknowledgement cards with envelopes.  For that, the basic package, you will make a 66% profit if using the suggested retail prices.  The next package contains all of the above as well as a candle, tribute video and four bookmarks.  This standard package will yield a 69% profit using suggested prices.  The premium package includes the items in the standard package, but instead of 100 memorial folders your client families receive 100 tri-folds.  This is yield a 73% profit. 

The profit percentages above assume use of a fixed flat fee program that provides you with a printer and includes all hardware, shipping, installation and 24/7 technical and repair service for a low monthly cost.  This is an excellent value considering the quantity of items that can be printed.  Also offered is a cost per page program for color and for black and white printing.  If you have a printer and wish to continue to pay for toner, service and support, you may certainly choose to do so.
 
Bringing design and production of your funeral stationery and related items in-house will improve your business operations considerably.  With control over your inventory, customization and printing you will enjoy the streamlined changes that simplify business.  Your client families will appreciate the many choices available to them to arrange for services that portray their loved ones as the decedent would like.  This is purely a win-win situation for everybody.

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, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments.  For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Simplify Funeral Products and Services with All-in-One Funeral Software

Have you ever yearned to simplify your business practices?  Limiting vendors, controlling timelines so deadlines are guaranteed to be met and reducing inventory?  Look no further than the all-in-one funeral software.  You will be astonished at how streamlined your business will become!

Are you currently running your business working with multiple vendors, from printers to web site developers?  The hassle of tracking inventory, the stress of ensuring that orders are placed, overseeing complicated bookkeeping – and all while working with rigid deadlines – is a business practice of the past if your funeral home is using all-in-one software.  This revolutionary software has been designed exclusively for the funeral home profession so you can be assured that every detail has been considered. All that is required from you are a few pieces of equipment and the willingness to learn a very simple software program that is installed on your in-house computer.  The rewards you reap are invaluable. 

With all-in-one funeral software you will streamline your business in a way that was once unfathomable.  The breadth of products you can create goes far beyond simple letterhead and cards.  You are now in command of ALL the ancillary products that truly create a memorable funeral service.  The funeral specific software enables you to create magnificent DVD tribute videos with photos, video clips and any one of over 500 themes to choose from to tell the story of your clients’ loved ones.  Replete with music, professional effects such as synced transitions and pan/zoom features, these are quickly becoming one of the most requested products at funeral services. 

The same software guides you easily through the development of a comprehensive portfolio of customizable funeral stationery. Whether your clients are looking for prayer cards, memorial folders, register books, acknowledgement cards, bookmarks, tri-fold programs or even funeral candles, the all-in-one software allows for complete personalization – quickly and easily.  With multiple layout features and advanced editing options there is no better way to offer clients the best variety and finest design selections.  The same holds true for digital signs which are electronic displays that present specific information such as the location, name and times of the service.  With the ability to update frequently and easily, the cost savings are significant when compared to the printing and construction costs associated with static signage.

Another exceptional feature included in all-in-one software is funeral webcasting.  Ideal for families widely dispersed across the country or overseas, you can broadcast funeral services globally with simultaneous streaming over 30 servers worldwide.  Live and delayed streaming is a great convenience for out-of-town loved ones who can watch the service live or at a later time if necessary.  The highest quality streaming guarantees that your online funeral service will be effortless and without glitches. 

The all-in-one funeral software comes with 24/7 technical assistance, available at any time for any question.  With your in-house computer, a printer, blank perforated stock an HD camera, tripod, wireless microphone and USB video capture device, you can provide all the aforementioned products and services to your client families.  If you have ever dreamed of reducing your vendor list, having full control over timelines and being able to offer the best in funeral service products and services, you can now make that dream a reality.  All-in-one funeral software is all you need to assist your clients in planning a memorable and touching service.

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, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments.  For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Benefits of Private Music Lessons

As parents, we only want what’s best for our children.  Private music lessons offer many benefits including non-parental adult support and encouragement as well as overcoming obstacles independently. 

Learning to play a musical instrument can be more of a daunting task than a child, or parent may expect.  Fingers, tongue, breathing, posture, note reading, and counting all come into play with this foreign object put into your child’s hands!

Working with a private music teacher can help a student keep up with peers when in a group setting – in band practice at school, for example.  Children learn at different paces and will master certain techniques in different time frames.  Private music lessons helps your child concentrate on skills he or she is lacking and helps polish those skills already learned.

Private lessons can also minimize a child’s frustration of learning to play an instrument.  Although frustration can instill determination in some, in others it may lead to discouragement and a sense of failure.  It would be sad to see a child give up learning an instrument in the early stages when all that was needed was a little personal attention.  Every child deserves an opportunity to enjoy playing an instrument – not be completely frustrated in the process.

Private lessons also set the child up for success.  With a private instructor, a child learns the fundamentals more quickly and can receive immediate praise directly from their teacher during the lesson.  Once a solid foundation is built, the child can keep learning, playing and succeeding – which instills confidence.

When a student is enrolled in music lessons with a private instructor, it is easier for the child to stay motivated – even after a few years of playing.  A private instructor is knowledgeable about different music styles and can help the child discover what new music to learn, what goal to pursue next. 

Young musicians need to learn how to practice.  A private music instructor can spend time with a student on practice skills.  Sometimes more time is spent on this than on other aspects.  Whether the student is a beginning or an advanced musician, quality practice time is required on a regular basis to master each skill.  Practice does make perfect!  A private music teacher will send the students home weekly with the proper practice pieces, skills and instruction on how to practice at home. 

Another benefit of private music lessons is that you can select the time slot that works best for you and your child’s schedule.  And finally, private music lessons are also helpful for those who are shy, or reserved.

Private music lessons can maximize a young musician’s opportunity for musical success and fun.  Consider enrolling your child today. 

About Wagner Dance and Music
Since 1989, Wagner Dance and Music, a performing arts school, has been teaching East Valley students. Our 3600 square foot Gilbert facility is conveniently located on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in the Big Lots plaza. We offer classes for ages 2 to adult in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Tumbling, Cheer, Musical Theater and Voice as well as adult classes.  For more information about Student Appreciation Day or to sign up for a class, visit http://wagnerdancearts.com or call 480-892-7179.