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The Basics: Running a Successful FCA

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All about your phone options and costs. Cell phone? Virtual voicemail? Landline? It's all here.
A simple, step-by-step (and short!) guide to setting up a Website using a popular, inexpensive service. Anyone can do this, no arcane computer programming skills required!
Questions about what publications FCA offers and how much they cost your affiliate? Want to know how to get in touch with your sister groups? All this and more is in our Affiliate Cheat Sheet.
Everything you need to know about building and running a funeral consumer group can be found in the Guidebook for Running a Funeral Consumers Alliance. Bound copies are $13 and available from the national office at 800-765-0107 or in our online bookstore.

Dangers of Prepaying

"Preneed" is a term coined by the funeral industry to describe the arrangement and payment of a funeral prior to death. Obviously, if you are to have any say in it, you must plan in advance of your death. "Prearrangement" is also used interchangeably with "preneed".

The marketing of preneed plans for funeral services and merchandise is increasingly prevalent. Various companies, including insurance companies, "for-profit cremation societies," and "preneed associations" flood the mail with advertising which touts the benefits of their preneed plans. There are a number of pitfalls, as well as options, about which consumers should be well-informed.

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About FCA

The Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA) is a Federation of Nonprofit Consumer Information Societies protecting a consumer's right to choose a meaningful, dignified, affordable funeral since 1963.