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Home Sweet Home

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Richard and I checked out early yesterday morning from the Excalibur Hotel. Ladies and gentlemen, the king and queen have left the building. We were greeted by $40 of additional surcharges on the rooms since we didn’t gamble. Richard convinced the woman at the registration desk to waive the fees. He is convinced it is due to his exquisite bone structure. I think she just didn’t want to waste anymore time.

We got to the NFDA at about 10am and everyone thought we’d spent the evening partying. In reality we were eating salsa and chips and talking about all of the potential partnerships we could forge with the various funeral directors, writers and service providers. We’re pleased to say that the NFDA was a resounding success and we’ve made lots of great new friends! Nevertheless, when the plane landed at SFO we were relieved to get away from each other for at least a few hours. There’s no place like home.

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Posted by Dana Oshiro

11 Oct

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  1. Comment by Timothy Totten at 6:55 am, October 17th, 2007

    It was a pleasure meeting both you and Richard at the NFDA Convention.
    The Final Embrace Contributors Forum was, in my mind, a great success.
    But I’m sorry that you didn’t get a chance to demo your service to the other vendors. I know that many of them would like to have better understood what you’re doing here at Respectance.
    We will be holding another seminar at the next NFDA Convention in Orlando. We’re tentatively planning to do it a day before the exhibit hall opens, to give vendors a chance to go over their strategies and share some ideas to make their convention a success.
    I hope the Vegas convention was good for you. Unfortunately, this industry lags behind most others in terms of technology. While I think you’re in for some pretty serious resistance from most funeral directors, I’d encourage you to pursue the more progressive firms and work toward making your service an “inevitability” for the industry.
    Like other arenas, there are few early adopters in the funeral industry. Fortunately for your tech company, the early adopters love the Internet, so your marketing efforts should require less “blunt force advertising” and more laser-precision.
    Once again, it was great meeting you!

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