TECHNOLOGY: The technology of Obituary Guest Books

http://www.legacy.com/TimesDispatch/GB/GuestbookEntry

http://www.legacy.com/

http://obit.edwardsanddowdle.com/

Hey morbid topic, but technology is where you find it!

I do my “alumni news”. Part of doing that is reporting obits.

(Side note: Some folks have accomplished great things. Some have pages written about them. Some sadly have nothing. Don’t you wonder what yours will be? That’s a ghoulish idea for a biz!?!)

In doing this duty, I usually put in a small note as a fellow alum. (many times it’s the only one!), and I notice that Legacy is the big player. By my eye and unstatistically, they have 80% of what I see. They’ve even figured some different ways to monetize the biz. Extra charge to post a photo. Extra charge to keep it up for a year. Extra charge to keep it up forever. I’ve wondered what they charge. Just out of curiosity.

But today, I found a Funeral Home that has essentially duplicated the function. SO it was cheaper for them to pay to do their own then to pay Legacy.

Interesting?

Was to me.

One thought on “TECHNOLOGY: The technology of Obituary Guest Books

  1. It there any other memorial guest book sites like legacy.com where a person can do the same thing and talk to their loves ones that have pasted on instead of Legacy.com
    Would prefer to use another memorial guest book site if one exsit. Please email me and let me know. If there isn’t there should be.

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