CXpertise by Dead Ringers

Learning Journeys

These journeys are curated for professionals in specific roles to provide a guided pathway to professional development.

LEARNING JOURNEY

For At-Need Professionals

If you're in a funeral home and working with families at need—this journey is for you. We'll cover: common legal pitfalls, communication techniques, empathy and grief awareness, and so much more.

Customer Experience Foundations

Customer Experience Foundations

Customer experience isn't just a buzzword—it’s the foundation of success in funeral service. Dead Ringers CXpert Nicki introduces the concept of customer experience and its critical role in enhancing service for families during their most challenging times. Whether you operate a cemetery, funeral home, cremation service, or pet loss program, learn how to transform your interactions from mere customer service to profound customer experiences.

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Understanding Your Client Family Journey

Understanding Your Client Family Journey

Understand the importance of customer experience in the deathcare industry and learn strategies to enhance service and build lasting relationships.

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Phone Etiquette for the Deathcare Profession

Phone Etiquette for the Deathcare Profession

Enhance your customer service experience with essential phone skills tailored for funeral and cemetery professionals.

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5 Things to Know About Your GPL

5 Things to Know About Your GPL

In this video, we break down five key things you need to know about your General Price List before picking up the phone.

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Inbound Adventures

Inbound Adventures

Want to improve your inbound call customer service? In this three-part MegaMod, Dead Ringers CXperts Patrick Downey and Nicki Wiedeman share tips and tricks to turn inbound calls into successful opportunities.

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Empathy Cues Mastery

Empathy Cues Mastery

Learn why empathy is more than a feeling—it's a skill that can be mastered to truly make a difference.

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Staying Sane: Real Tools for Real Troubles

Staying Sane: Real Tools for Real Troubles

Tiffany Gallarzo shares 3 actionable strategies for deathcare professionals to maintain mental well-being during exhausting periods.

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Introduction to Emotional First Aid

Introduction to Emotional First Aid

Learn how to reach families in crisis, build trust fast, and avoid secondary trauma—practical tools for compassionate, impactful service.

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Opening the Arrangement Conversation

Opening the Arrangement Conversation

Jill Lazar from Ring Ring Marketing provides a structured approach to initiating funeral arrangement conversations, focusing on empathy, clarity, and client comfort.

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Price List Discussions

Price List Discussions

Jill Lazar from Ring Ring Marketing offers a script for presenting the general price list compassionately while adhering to FTC Funeral Rule compliance.

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Death Reporting Toolkit: Mastering EDRS and SSA

Death Reporting Toolkit: Mastering EDRS and SSA

Discover best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and ensure accurate, timely death reporting that support families and safeguards their future.

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Welcoming All Ages: Making Funeral Homes Comfortable for Children

Welcoming All Ages: Making Funeral Homes Comfortable for Children

This course provides 10 tips to make funeral homes child-friendly, ensuring comfort and engagement for children during funeral arrangements and services.

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Inclusive Funerals: A Guide to Supporting Intellectual Disabilities

Inclusive Funerals: A Guide to Supporting Intellectual Disabilities

Join Prof. Marc Markell to learn how to support individuals with intellectual disabilities through grief. Gain insights into language, rituals, and inclusion for a compassionate funeral experience.

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Breaking the Silence: Suicide Loss, Grief & the Role of Funeral Professionals

Breaking the Silence: Suicide Loss, Grief & the Role of Funeral Professionals

Gain insight into suicide loss, grief, and how funeral professionals can compassionately support survivors through trauma, stigma, and healing.

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Continuing Care as a Growth Tool

Continuing Care as a Growth Tool

Guest CXpert Brittany Neunuebel shares strategies for implementing a continuing care program that will make a meaningful impact in communities, ensure families feel supported throughout their grief journeys, and ultimately grow your business.

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10 Tenets of Telephone Etiquette for Deathcare Professionals

10 Tenets of Telephone Etiquette for Deathcare Professionals

This e-book is your go-to guide for telephone do's and don'ts for deathcare professionals.

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Call Excellence Guide for At-Need

Call Excellence Guide for At-Need

This script template provides a handy resource for professionals to keep nearby when answering inbound at-need calls.

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Ring Ring Results: Turning Conversations Into Conversions

Ring Ring Results: Turning Conversations Into Conversions

This webinar features Guest CXpert Jill Lazar on transforming consumer interactions into successful client relationships.

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LEARNING JOURNEY

For Pre-Need & Sales Professionals

This section is for pre-need and sales professionals to expand their outreach, refine their customer experience, and hone their skills with sales techniques and principles that last.

7 Steps to Find Your Pre-Planning Vibe

7 Steps to Find Your Pre-Planning Vibe

In this two-part MegaMod, Dead Ringers CXpert Patrick Downey shares actionable strategies to help funeral professionals grow their prearrangement sales.

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Customer Experience Foundations

Customer Experience Foundations

Customer experience isn't just a buzzword—it’s the foundation of success in funeral service.

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Understanding Your Client Family Journey

Understanding Your Client Family Journey

Understand the importance of customer experience in the deathcare industry and learn strategies to enhance service and build lasting relationships.

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Phone Etiquette for the Deathcare Profession

Phone Etiquette for the Deathcare Profession

Enhance your customer service experience with essential phone skills tailored for funeral and cemetery professionals.

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Empathy Cues Abridged Version

Empathy Cues Abridged Version

This abridged course offers practical tips to recognize and respond to emotional cues, helping you foster trust and connection in every conversation. These strategies will elevate your customer experience skills.

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5 Things to Know About Your GPL

5 Things to Know About Your GPL

In this video, we break down five key things you need to know about your General Price List before picking up the phone.

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Navigating Networking & Personal Branding

Navigating Networking & Personal Branding

Join the "Funeral Fairy Godmother" Brittany Neunuebel as she brings her signature humor and light-hearted approach to networking secrets, referral strategies, and personal branding tips that will help you shine in the marketplace.

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Social Media Marketing 101

Social Media Marketing 101

Change the way you think about social media marketing with Savannah Evanoff at Ring Ring Marketing. Enhance your online presence, engage with your community, and drive business growth through targeted social media efforts.

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Be An Educator, Not An Order Taker

Be An Educator, Not An Order Taker

Learn to be an educator, not just an order taker, in pre-need sales with Jamie Sarche's insights for enhancing client experiences.

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TRU Selling: Success Principles for Funeral Sales

TRU Selling: Success Principles for Funeral Sales

Discover a refreshing, pressure-free approach to sales with TRU Selling—built on Trust, Research, and Ultimate Service. Learn to serve authentically while staying true to yourself.

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3 Secrets to Customer Service Success

3 Secrets to Customer Service Success

This module reveals essential strategies—mindsets, not just techniques—for excelling in customer service within the deathcare profession. The module emphasizes the importance of three ingredients to create meaningful consumer interactions.

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Building Referral Networks

Building Referral Networks

In this module, Jill Lazar shares effective strategies for building referral networks in the funeral industry. You will learn how to identify and leverage key moments to create referral opportunities and establish mutually beneficial relationships.

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10 Tenets of Telephone Etiquette for Deathcare Professionals

10 Tenets of Telephone Etiquette for Deathcare Professionals

This e-book is your go-to guide for telephone do's and don'ts for deathcare professionals.

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Call Excellence Guide for Pre-Need

Call Excellence Guide for Pre-Need

This script template provides a handy resource for professionals to keep nearby when answering inbound pre-need and price shopper calls.

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Ring Ring Results: Turning Conversations Into Conversions

Ring Ring Results: Turning Conversations Into Conversions

This webinar features guest CXpert Jill Lazar on transforming consumer interactions into successful client relationships.

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LEARNING JOURNEY

For Owners, Managers & Leaders

For owners, leaders and aspiring leaders—tackle mindsets and strategies that will lead to growth and scalability.

Understanding Your Client Family Journey

Understanding Your Client Family Journey

Understand the importance of customer experience in the deathcare industry and learn strategies to enhance service and build lasting relationships. Learn how to map client journeys, optimize touchpoints, and leverage service aptitude to build trust and drive business success.

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Do This and Grow Your Business: The Website

Do This and Grow Your Business: The Website

Learn how to boost your deathcare business online. Discover strategies to engage shoppers, planners, mourners, and browsers. Transform your website into a lead-generating tool.

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Social Media Marketing 101

Social Media Marketing 101

Change the way you think about social media marketing with Savannah Evanoff at Ring Ring Marketing. Enhance your online presence, engage with your community, and drive business growth through targeted social media efforts.

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Recording Calls: Is It Legal?

Recording Calls: Is It Legal?

Can you legally record phone calls in your state? In this essential session, Poul Lemasters breaks down the legalities of call recording, helping businesses navigate one-party vs. two-party consent laws and avoid compliance pitfalls.

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5 Things to Know About Your GPL

5 Things to Know About Your GPL

In this video, we break down five key things you need to know about your General Price List before picking up the phone.

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Customer Experience Foundations

Customer Experience Foundations

Customer experience isn't just a buzzword—it’s the foundation of success in funeral service.

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Answering Service FAQs

Answering Service FAQs

Learn the do's and don'ts of implementing an answering service for your funeral home with Craig Meehan of ASD. Understand legalities, improve customer experience, and streamline operations.

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Empathy Cues Mastery

Empathy Cues Mastery

Learn why empathy is more than a feeling—it's a skill that can be mastered to truly make a difference.

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Welcoming All Ages: Making Funeral Homes Comfortable for Children

Welcoming All Ages: Making Funeral Homes Comfortable for Children

This course provides 10 tips to make funeral homes child-friendly, ensuring comfort and engagement for children during funeral arrangements and services.

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Tribute Videos: How to Sell Them Effectively

Tribute Videos: How to Sell Them Effectively

Landon Bickley from Tukios discusses selling tribute videos effectively, covering methods, pricing, and case studies from successful funeral homes. Learn how to enhance service value and client satisfaction.

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Death Reporting Toolkit: Mastering EDRS and SSA

Death Reporting Toolkit: Mastering EDRS and SSA

Discover best practices, avoid common pitfalls, and ensure accurate, timely death reporting that support families and safeguards their future.

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Continuing Care as a Growth Tool

Continuing Care as a Growth Tool

Guest CXpert Brittany Neunuebel shares strategies for implementing a continuing care program that will make a meaningful impact in communities, ensure families feel supported throughout their grief journeys, and ultimately grow your business.

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10 Tips for Unlocking the Pet Loss Market

10 Tips for Unlocking the Pet Loss Market

Discover how pet loss services can grow your funeral business with insights from Coleen Ellis, pioneer in the pet loss space. Learn WHY you should tap into the pet loss market and 10 practical tips on how to do it right.

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Providing Profitable Solutions in a Changing Environment

Providing Profitable Solutions in a Changing Environment

Learn how to align your business with today’s evolving consumer values. Darren Crouch shares real data, green strategies, and profitable solutions to meet modern demands.

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The Two-Word Growth Strategy

The Two-Word Growth Strategy

This course reveals how investing in team skills and culture drives success in the deathcare profession, enhancing employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and business growth.

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The Art of the One-on-One

The Art of the One-on-One

One-on-one meetings are one of the most powerful tools for boosting employee engagement, productivity, and performance. Pat Downey explores why these meetings matter, how to introduce them to your team, and the best way to structure them for success.

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Incentives & Contests

Incentives & Contests

Incentives and contests can be powerful tools to motivate your team, boost engagement, and drive results—but only if they’re done right. In this session, Patrick Downey covers the dos and don’ts of running successful incentive programs.

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The Introverted Leader

The Introverted Leader

Through personal anecdotes and historical examples, Mandie illustrates how introverted qualities can be powerful assets in leadership, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and cultivating one's inherent strengths or "giftings."

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Aftercare Matters: Guiding Families with Compassion & Clarity

Aftercare Matters: Guiding Families with Compassion & Clarity

This webinar with Guest CXpert Matt van Drimmelen covers why aftercare is important, how to implement it effectively, and the transformative effect it has on client families.

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FTC Updates with Poul Lemasters

FTC Updates with Poul Lemasters

This webinar replay covers FTC Funeral Rule developments in 2025 that affect funeral homes in the US.

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