Funeral Counseling and Online Memorials; Add Arrows to DCIS Alliance Quiver
The Death Care Internet Services Alliance announced today that two very powerful sources for consumer information and services have joined its rapidly expanding base of Internet Death Care service organizations. Funeral Counseling, a non-profit charitable organization and Memorial Link.Com, a creator of online memorials and tributes have become a part of a rapidly expanding and growing death care industry and Internet force being created under the moniker The Death Care Internet Services Alliance, DCIS Alliance for short.
(PRWEB) July 8, 2005 -- The Death Care Internet Services Alliance announced
today that two very powerful sources for consumer information and services have
joined its rapidly expanding base of Internet Death Care service
organizations.
Funeral Counseling, a non-profit charitable organization
and Memorial Link.Com, a creator of online memorials and tributes have become a
part of a rapidly expanding and growing death care industry and Internet force
being created under the moniker The Death Care Internet Services Alliance, DCIS
Alliance for short.
Funeral Counseling works on a non-profit basis taking
care of necessary funeral arrangements for consumers. They help with the
multitude of tasks families are faced with when a death occurs. Funeral
Counseling provides price shopping, funeral home and cemetery contact, over
viewing of contracts, planning, and advice for its clients.
The other
addition to the DCIS Alliance, Memorial Link.Com creates online memorials that
are a biographical representation of an individual’s life. They create
commemoratives that capture the memory of a dearly departed providing a means
for a client family to have an accessible virtual tribute for family and friends
to view worldwide.
”We are so excited with both Funeral Counseling and
Memorial Link.Com joining DCIS because both are dedicated to bringing the
consumer the highest quality in the creation of a memorial and in giving a
family at their lowest moment, the loss of a loved one, the advice and guidance
so necessary to ease the terrible anxiety and confusion so many of our families
endure when a member of that family passes away.” Stated RW Ward, current
Director of The Death Care Internet Services Alliance.
Funeral
Counseling’s President, Todd Bacinich, commented, “The Death Care Internet
Services Alliance is something that we are proud to join. We feel that the
bountiful resources available to consumers are some of the best on the web and
that it is an invaluable gateway for families when needing to find pertinent
information on end of life issues and planning resources. We look forward to
working with other DCIS members in being an excellent resource for
consumers.”
Membership in the DCIS Alliance is by invitation only.
According to Director Ward, it is not easy to obtain. “Our criteria, for
membership consideration, are fairly specific. A death care service companies
must be serving the consumer using the Internet as a key tool in communicating
those services. A company must have the consumer in mind and go that extra mile
in services to provide more that just an easier way to make a credit card
transaction. It has little to do with what seems to pass for death care services
on the Internet today, namely, flashy visuals and price point advertising rather
than true services and advice.”
Ward went on to say, “Use of the Internet
by our industry is terribly fragmented with an incredible number of amateurs
trying to cash in on the growing numbers of consumers who are turning to the
Internet for death care help and services. In just the sector our Cemetery
Registry is involved with, cemetery property, we see web sites and classified
players pop up everyday. These pseudo providers, in most cases, offer nothing
more than a way to get a cemetery seller on a wheel of constant renewal fees to
keep advertising, yet providing nothing more than lip service to finding them
the buyer they so desperately are looking for.”
The Director indicated
the most critical reason for the DCIS Alliance was begun in the first place.
“There is a real need for synergy in the death care industry and this is the
beginning of it.”
Ward went on to point out that, “The consumers have
already begun changing their interaction with our industry and we are just
trying to catch up with them.”
“They, the consumers, expect access to
precise information on funeral homes, cemeteries, cremation, genealogy,
obituaries, eulogies, etc. when they need it. Memorial Link.Com and Funeral
Counseling's additions to the DCIS Alliances consortium of quality death care
services organizations are exactly attuned to this growing attention consumers
are giving to Internet searches for information and services when they need help
with a family final emergency, namely the death of a loved one, or the planning
of their own final arrangements."
“Consumers are learning, hopefully
through our efforts at DCIS, that this intensity of information resources is
available to them and is only a click of their mouse away on the Internet. The
inclusion of Memorial Links.Com and Funeral Counseling to the alliance and those
of our previous partnerships with other important member organizations, are a
real beginning to creating some satisfaction to the consumer’s expectation of
real services from our death care industry via the Internet.” Ward
added.
Members of DCIS include such Internet high profile companies such
as The Final Arrangements Network, referred to as “the Library of Congress of
Death Care” by one Insurance Company executive, has been providing consumers
with information, guidance and education on funeral, cremation and cemetery
service final arrangements for several years and is the custodian of the
Cemetery Registry database of cemetery property for sale in the US and Canada by
private owners.
Internet marketing company, New Concept Consultants’ The
Cemetery Registry is also a DCIS member. TCR besides offering final arrangements
planning information along with caskets, urns and grave markers for sale, is
also the official public Internet access to the database, that bears its name.
The Cemetery Registry database itself, through its staff of cemetery property
specialists, maintains oversight on thousands of US and Canadian registered
cemetery properties for sale as well as offers from consumers to buy. In
addition, TCR offers funeral and burial goods for sale including; caskets,
cremation urns, grave markers direct to the consumer.
Previously
announced DCIS membership includes such consumer oriented organizations as the
Internet’s ObituaryCentral.com and its sister website ObitLinksPage.com. Both
have been mainstays of the Internet for several years. These highly visible
portals provide the consumer and industry professionals with vast resource
capabilities in the areas of obituary, memorial and tribute publishing and
research; genealogy investigation; funeral and cemetery services market by
market search.
Another DCIS alliance member is publisher MCR. MCR is best
known for its widely circulated consumer funeral-planning guide Let The Choice
Be Mine, one of the most thorough and easy to use, personal funeral planning
books available to consumers. Thousands of copies of the guide are in
circulation and used by funeral homes, churches, attorneys, consumers and
service groups throughout the world.
Most recently DCIS announced Loving
Eulogies had joined. Loving Eulogies provides consumers with professional and
yet highly personalized services to help individuals and families create
memorable eulogies and tributes for families tasked with saying goodbye to a
loved one at the time of death.
“We are extremely pleased that Mr
Bacinich saw fit to allow his organizations to become part of what is becoming a
true force in the death care industry on the Internet. Each time quality
consumer oriented organizations like Funeral Counseling and Memorial Link.Com
join the alliance we know we are getting closer to our goal of making the
Internet a quality source consumers can rely on for final arrangements
information and services. We are so proud of the progress we have made just this
year in attracting some of the best of the Internet's Death Care services
companies.” Director Ward concluded.
For More Information:
Contact:
The Final Arrangements News Journal
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About DCIS (The Death Care Internet Services Alliance):
Contact:
Robert W Ward, Director DCIS Alliance
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The Final Arrangements Network:
http://www.finalarrangementsnetwork.com/
The Cemetery
Registry:
http://thecemeteryregistry.com/
About Funeral
Counseling and Memorial Link.Com
Todd Bacinich
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Funeral Counseling:
http://www.funeralcounseling.com
Memorial Link.Com:
http://www.memoriallink.com
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