Chuck Gallagher vice president of sales and marketing for American Funeral Financial talks about tapping into the social networking marketing opportunity during his presentation, “ABCs of Social Networking” at the 2010 ICCFA Annual Convention. Interview by Funeral Internet Consultant, Robin Heppell.

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Eric Robuck president of WebCemeteries.com talks about understanding the types of attackers, the attacks they use and solutions you can employ to secure your business during his presentation, “Internet Security 101″ at the 2010 ICCFA Annual Convention. Interview by Funeral Website Consultant, Robin Heppell.

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Social Media Guru, Ze Frank (and video blogger for Time.com) shares his thoughts about how social media may be approached by the funeral industry. Ze will be presenting “Facebook May Not Be The Answer”at the 2010 ICCFA Annual Convention. Interview by Funeral Internet Marketing Trainer, Robin Heppell.

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Joe Budzinski, Internal COO of the ICCFA talks about the Technology Track and the other Programs at the ICCFA 2010 Convention with the Funeral Technology Track Chair, Robin Heppell. This is the first of Tech Track Tuesday Talks – more interviews to come each Tuesday leading up to the Convention.

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For Convention details, visit www.ICCFAConvention.com.

Blair Nelsen of Nelsen Funeral Homes in Richmond & Williamsburg, Virginia and the Cremation Society of Virginia talks about Funeral Business Models and Online Marketing for Funeral Homes.  Interview by Funeral Marketing & SEO Consultant, Robin Heppell. This interview is part of the Tributes.com Interview Series.

Larry Schildmeyer of Tufts Schildmeyer Funeral Homes in Loveland, Ohio shares how he makes more use of a/v equipment before, during, and after the funeral service. Interview by Funeral Technology Expert, Robin Heppell, CFSP.

Anthony MacDiarmid of Chandlers’ Funeral Home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia shares his recent experience of updating his facilities with the latest audio video equipment on a budget. Interview by Funeral Website Expert, Robin Heppell.

Joe Budzinski, the Internal Chief Operating Officer of the ICCFA talks about the direction of the Association, the new website including the ICCFA Cafe and the excitement leading up to the Annual Convention.  Interview by Funeral Website Consultant, Robin Heppell.

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Mark Stehn, Executive Director of the Oregon Funeral Directors Association, speaks with Funeral Futurist, Robin Heppell about the OFDA’s upcoming convention at Seaside, Oregon from April 24th to 27th.

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Justin Zabor of Justin Zabor Enterprises and Zabor Funeral Home in Cleveland, Ohio talks about his presentation, Marketing & PR: Media Buzzing Made Easy. Then he turns the tables on Robin Heppell and asks about his presentation, Web 2.0 – the Future of the Internet.

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Funeral director Craig Williams of McCalls Funeral Homes in Victoria, B.C. explains how creating service and memorial folders with Photoshop sets them apart. Interview by Funeral Trends Expert, Robin Heppell.

Funeral director John Ellwood of McCall’s Funeral Homes in Victoria, BC describes the process that they use when creating DVD memorial tributes – including the most requested song for those tributes. Interview by Funeral Consultant, Robin Heppell.

Robin Heppell briefly looks back at 2007 – the first 6 months of the Funeral Gurus, and shares what is in store for 2008. Heppell also shares how the idea for the Funeral Gurus came about and includes an 2003 radio interview where he got the idea for the name – Funeral Gurus.

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Robin Heppell of Heppell Funeral Solutions presents “Google, YouTube and Your Funeral Home” where funeral directors will learn how to promote their funeral homes on the Internet beyond their own website as well as creating preneed leads once they get the visitor’s attention.  Interview by John Welsh of Funeral Plans Canada. For more pre-conference interviews,  see the list of presenters – FPC 2007 Presenters.

Funeral Plans-Canada is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its Annual Conference – November 28-29, 2007 in Kitchener, Ontario. You can listen to pre-conference interviews with the all of the presenters:

• Sheila Nunn – Funeral Plans Canada – Host of the 10th Annual Sales Conference 
• Ron Downey – Total Performance Ltd.
• Dan Isard – Foresight Companies LLC
• Robin Heppell – Heppell Funeral Solutions
• Dr. Bill Webster – Centre for the Grief Journey

Future Interviews:

• Quinn Eagan – Preneed Funeral Programs

To register visit: http://funeralplans.net/Events.htm

For further information, please contact Tina Dietrich at 1-888-428-4444. The registration deadline is November 12th.