277 Funeral Directors across the UK now use us exclusively for all of their funeral notices, choosing to also display them on their website. One of the benefits they receive is free online obituaries.
We would like to invite you to try online notices for free for a couple of months so you can see the benefits for yourself. Read on to find out more.
Free online notices are perfect for families who decide not to have a newspaper notice, for whatever reason. Perhaps the family have lived in numerous locations across the UK or maybe they are keeping their funeral arrangements to a minimum and are not including a notice. Offering them an online notice allows them to benefit from an online donation facility and create a lasting place to keep memories, photos and tributes to their loved one.
We know some families prefer to announce the passing of their loved one on social media.
By offering these families a free online funeral notice, you are able to give them the lasting benefits of a static funeral notice - which can easily be shared on to the social media services of their choice.
Returning to a status on social media is often hard; scrolling down a wall and at the mercy of social media search bots.
An online funeral notice is easy to bookmark to a phone, iPad or laptop and may be returned to time and time again, whenever and wherever you choose. Every comment/tribute/photo/video and candle added to an online notice is moderated too, offering extra peace of mind that their notice remains in a safe space online.
The more notices you publish, the more likely it is your business will be seen by more people. Free online notices are a great tool to help you publish 100% of the funerals you are arranging.
All online notices are published beside your logo and allow our audience to see how many notices you are publishing. As an example, take a look at today's notices published in the Stoke Sentinel online
here. As you scroll down the page the notices placed by Funeral Directors, displaying their company logo, really stand out.
An online notice on funeral-notices is a great online marketing tool, with every online funeral notice linked to your brand and listing information on funeral-notices.co.uk.
We have many prompts available to encourage friends and family to share a notice both before and after a notice is published online. When you come to book your notices with us, we encourage you to add in email address(es) for family and friends which allows us to email them as soon as their notice is published encouraging them to share it on social media and messaging sites.
Once the notice is live, we have a prominent section on the notice dedicated to encouraging people to share the notice, as well as a pop up prompt encouraging the same.
Every single share results in more people seeing the notice, which is fantastic for the family and great for your business with additional exposure to your brand.
Online donations are available on all notices and may be raised for up to 5 charities/good causes.
There is no cost to families or Funeral Directors for this service and we provide charities with the information needed to collect Gift Aid - adding an extra 25p to every £1 donated.
Our fantastic audience means we are able to raise some fantastic amounts for local, national and global charities on notices placed by UK Funeral Directors.
You can book a free online notice by following the instructions in our guide below, or by emailing us at fdteam@funeral-notices.co.uk requesting free online.
If you have any questions on funeral notices, to start your free trial of online funeral notices or for more information, contact us now using the button below. We would love to hear from you.
