FuneralNet

Founded in 1996 by Michael Turkiewicz and Jim Durbin, FuneralNet was the original and largest provider of custom websites for death-care businesses in America. It also served clients in Canada, Australia and Puerto Rico. FuneralNet was sold to Frazer Consultants in early 2017. HISTORY In 1997 FuneralNet invented online obituaries and forever changed the face of death care. This invention, and the resulting public demand for online obits, forced most funeral homes that did not want a website to get a website. FuneralNet would also invent or make common many of the programs and functions that became industry standards. FuneralNets innovation of online cremation eArrangement and online ID of remains began a second online death care revolution of sorts in the U.S., to the tune of over $1M/year in online sales for some of its cremation business clients. In 2008 FuneralNets Brian Young began compiling a first-of-its-kind data set of death care website behavior metrics. This provided...