Fees for Funeral Futurist Digital Marketing Services
Funeral Home Website Managed Hosting and Support
- Fee: $145 / month
- Description: This service provides reliable and secure managed hosting for funeral home websites, ensuring optimal performance, uptime, and regular updates for your site.
- Key Deliverables: Secure hosting, regular WordPress updates, uptime monitoring, and technical support.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide access to the domain registrar for DNS configuration
- Expected Results: Optimal website functionality and high reliability.
- Additional Terms: Development work is billed separately at $125 / hour.
Cremation Arrangement Website Managed Hosting and Support
- Fee: $195 / month
- Description: This service provides reliable and secure managed hosting for cremation arrangement websites, supporting seamless online transactions and ensuring optimal performance, uptime, and regular updates for your site.
- Key Deliverables: Secure hosting, regular WordPress updates, uptime monitoring, enhanced transactional security, and technical support.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide access to the domain registrar for DNS configuration.
- Expected Results: Optimal website functionality, secure online arrangements, and high reliability.
- Additional Terms: Development work is billed separately at $125 / hour.
Google Ads (Search):
- Bronze Fee: $395 / month with monthly ad spend (up to $2,000) billed separately.
- Silver Fee: $595 / month with monthly ad spend (up to $4,000) billed separately.
- Gold Fee: $795 / month with monthly ad spend (up to $7,000) billed separately.
- Description: Captures high-intent prospects seeking funeral home services immediately through targeted Google Ads campaigns.
- Key Deliverables: Campaign setup (up to 4 campaigns), keyword research, ad creation, monthly reporting and quarterly meetings.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide access to Google Ads account and website analytics.
- Expected Results: Increased at-need prospects from local searches and quarterly meetings.
- Additional Terms: Additional campaigns are an additional $150 / month.
Local SEO & GEO (Generative Engine Optimization – may also be referred to as AI-Enhanced Optimization (AEO))
- Fee: $395 / month
- Description: Improves online visibility by optimizing the funeral home’s website for both local searches and AI-driven tools, ensuring top search result rankings.
- Key Deliverables: Onsite optimization, listing management, AI-enhanced content (1 monthly blog post and 1 quarterly press release), monthly reporting and quarterly meetings.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide access to website backend and relevant business directories.
- Expected Results: Improved local search rankings, increased website traffic and quarterly meetings.
Online Reputation Management
- Fee: $395 / month
- Description: Builds trust by collecting and managing client reviews, improving the funeral home’s online reputation.
- Key Deliverables: Review solicitation, follow-ups, suggested responses to reviews, monthly reporting.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide client contact information for review requests.
- Expected Results: Increased volume of 5-star reviews, enhanced online credibility.
Digital Advertising for Preneed Leads
- Fee: $395 / month
- Description: Leverage AI-enhanced digital advertising to generate high-quality preneed leads using Google Display, Facebook, and Instagram.
- Key Deliverables: Custom ad creative tailored to funeral home branding, monthly performance reporting with lead tracking, campaign setup, management, and continuous optimization.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide access to Facebook Business Manager and ad accounts, approve ad creative and messaging.
- Expected Results: Increased high-quality preneed inquiries, lower cost per lead through AI optimization.
Content & Social Media Marketing
- Fee: $1,195 / month
- Description: Engages families with consistent and targeted social media content across multiple platforms, increasing brand awareness and community connection.
- Key Deliverables: Weekly article creation, 5 social media posts per week, weekly and monthly post boosting, and performance reports.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide review responses for client approval.
- Expected Results: Increased social media engagement, broader community reach and quarterly meetings.
- Additional Terms: Monthly boosting fee of $300 – $450 approx. extra.
Quarterly Community Newsletter
- Fee: $395 / month
- Description: Maintains top-of-mind awareness with a professionally designed newsletter that provides valuable information to families in your community every three months.
- Key Deliverables: Newsletter content creation, email list management, distribution, and performance tracking.
- Client Responsibilities: Provide access to the email list and any specific content guidelines
- Expected Results: Strengthened community relationships, increased client loyalty and quarterly meetings.
- Additional Terms: Available only with Social Media Marketing enabled.
AI Assistant for Cremation Providers or Funeral Preneed Departments
- Set up Fee:
$995$695. - Monthly Fee:
$495$395 / month - Description: An intelligent, always-available AI Assistant designed to enhance your funeral
home’s or cremation provider’s service capacity. This Assistant acts as a virtual receptionist and
support staff member, handling voice calls, website inquiries, appointment bookings, and review
generation around the clock. It replaces the need for costly after-hours answering services and
increases client family satisfaction by providing immediate, accurate, and caring responses any
time of day. - Key Deliverables: Custom AI voice and chatbot setup, AI appointment scheduling integration,
automated online review management, call recording and transcription services, onboarding
and VIP 24/7 support access, quarterly optimization sessions, and monthly performance
reporting. - Client Responsibilities: Provide access to existing phone and CRM systems (if applicable), supply
FAQ content and service information for configuration, provide calendars and appointment
availability, approve review and follow-up messaging templates, and designate team members
for training and communication. - Expected Results: Enhanced customer service responsiveness, increased appointment bookings,
improved online reputation through automated review collection, higher lead conversion rates,
significant cost savings compared to live answering services, and actionable insights from call
and chat transcriptions.
Additional AI – Assisted Services
- AI-powered Chat Bots: $99 / month
- AI-powered Voice Communications: $399 / month
- Obituary subscribers: $19 / month (Funeral Futurist Websites only)
- Grief Resources: $19 / month (Funeral Futurist Websites only)
- Webforms integrated with automated workflows: $199 / month (up to 10)
- Missed Call Text Back: $99 / month (for cremation sites only)
