Breaking News: WSJ-- Wall Street Journal enters The Funeral Cost Business.
Funeral Cost dollars are now being shifted to the Wall Street Journal via the internet. Now trying to get your funeral cost dollar is the WSJ and the founder of Monster.com {Jeff Taylor started Monster.com and Eons.com }
He has stated he has devoted his entire life to taking the Newspaper online. This time he is going for the obituary dollar and hopes to get the cooperation of the traditional funeral homes, bypassing you guessed it the local Newspaper.
The article is in the magazine Wired:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2008/05/tributes
This was predicted along with the rise of online obituaries
in the book " Rest in Peace, Insiders tips to the Low Cost Less Stress Funeral"
These places are his competition: SweetMemoriesSite.com, ChristianMemorials.com and, PreciousMemoriesAndMore.com and Legacy.com.
Not surprising there will be memorial packages for both funeral homes and people who have just had a death in their family.
Many Funeral Homes have their own memorial websites, This will probably be a great success because there will be an easy search of the Social Security Data Base. This will make it possible for these folks to knock the competition dead. It is all quite scary.
