ENGAGE WITH MANDIE
If you like what you hear, you'll probably enjoy working with Dead Ringers.
Dead Ringers specializes in telephone CX evaluation and training solutions for funeral homes, cemeteries, and cremation providers.
Modules by Mandie
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All, Customer Experience
The Good, the Bad, and the Bottom
CourseTwo tunnels start in the same place: the moment a family reaches you. One ends in peace, the other in shame and regret. Learn how feelings become decisions, and why crossing a family back gets harder the longer you wait.
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All, Leaders & Management
Tip the Scales
CourseIs a better customer experience actually worth the effort? Follow the money: retention, reputation, efficiency, revenue, and heritage families who stay with a firm for generations. Then design the one call that starts it.
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All, Leaders & Management, Customer Experience
Customer Journey Mapping
CourseMap every interaction a family has with your firm across all three phases, and test each one against a single question: peace, or stress? There is no neutral touchpoint. Ends with your own map, built and printable.
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All, Mindset
Service or Serving: Discovering Your Core Desire
CourseService is transactional and ends when the services end. Serving doesn't. Same hats, different reason for wearing them — and one exercise that shows you what every family is actually after underneath what they asked for.
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All, Customer Experience
Meat & Potatoes: Shopper Call Script Tips
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Most price shoppers aren't shopping price — they're lost, and price is the only question they know to ask. Learn to uncover what a caller needs, present value before cost, and say the number cleanly. Ends with a cheat sheet you print.
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All, Customer Experience, Learning Path: At-Need
Empathy Cues Mastery
CourseMandie Hungarland's daughter died on a Monday morning. The first funeral home she called got it wrong. The second earned four services in a year. Fourteen lessons on empathy as a skill: four cues, four mistakes, and how to practice.
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All, Customer Experience, Learning Path: Pre-Need, Learning Path: Leadership
Empathy Cues - Abridged Version
CourseEmpathy isn't a feeling — it's a skill. Learn the four cues hiding in every call a family makes to your firm: circumstance, undertone, expression, and space. Then take a live call and find out which ones you're already missing.
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All, Leaders & Management, Learning Path: Leadership
The Two-Word Growth Strategy
CourseTurnover, burnout, falling satisfaction, flat revenue — one problem underneath all four. People development is a growth strategy, not an HR initiative. Learn the four steps, then build a 90-day plan for your own team.
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All, Mindset
3 Secrets to Customer Service Success
CourseEmpathy, gratitude, ownership. They spell EGO, which is precisely what good service requires you to get rid of. Learn what all three sound like on a real call, then handle one twice — once as an employee, once as an owner.
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All, Customer Experience, Learning Path: At-Need
Frontline Facilitators Script Tips
CourseYou're the first voice a family hears. This is the script — the greeting, the condolence, the three names, the hold, the handoff — line by line. Then you write your own version and say it out loud.
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All, Leaders & Management, Mindset
The Introverted Leader
CourseYou were never the loud one, so nobody ever put you down for the promotion. Leadership isn't a personality — it's a gifting. Find yours, then find the one on your team that nobody has named yet.