THE FUNERAL RULE SHOULD BE EXPANDED TO COVER THE BURIAL AND MEMORIALIZATION SEGMENTS OF THE DEATHCARE INDUSTRY

Read the comments yourself!  Click on the Link Below:

http://www.monumentbuilders.org/comments.html

10-2-99

We have created an On Line USERS GROUP for owners and operators of Monu-Cad Systems and Software.   This is a forum where MonuCad Users can swap tricks, ask questions, express gripes, obtain help,  make suggestions and create "wish lists". To keep this a serious group, we have elected to maintain this Users Group as a Closed Group with entry by invitation only.  We intend to invite every MonuCad User to join.  However, we need your email address in order to send you an invitation.  If you are a MonuCad user and wish to join the On Line Users Group, please send me your email address.   Please send to jim@monu-cad.com.

Click Here to access the MonuCad OnLine Users Group

10-1-99

There is a new message board on YAHOO dedicated to the Monument Business.  This is a meeting place for monument industry folks where all can share ideas, post gripes, make comments and in general share information.  We encourage all Monument Industry members to go to this site and sign in and participate.  Have Fun!

Click on this link to Goto http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/themonumentbusiness

9-29-99

New Version of MonuCad Pro 2000 Ver 2.00.186 posted.  Goto Download Page

9-13-99

New Visual Report of Dernavich Exposition in Barre, VT Sept 11, 1999.  Pictures!!  Click Here!!

8-18-99

New Version of MCPro posted Version 2.00.176  Goto Download Page

8-10-99

  Monu-Cad introduces Industry's First Entry Level System only $9,995.00!!
     Click here

7-30-99

Monu-Cad Pro Ver 2.00.168 now available.  Goto Download Page

7-14-99

Rock of Ages adds two more Retail Firms

ROA buys Caron and Bethel-Miller

7-9-99

New Version 2.00.156 of MCPro now available.  Click Here

6-25-99

Rock of Ages Buys Nelson

Rock of Ages Sells Keystone

6-4-99

Keystone Buy Back Details click on the link below

http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=7080111&tid=roac&sid=7080111&mid=1091

6-1-99

Loewen Group files Chapter 11

Details are at http://biz.yahoo.com/apf/990601/loewen_ban_1.html

5-23-99  What's Going on at ROA ??

There are rumors of Keystone Granite in Elberton, GA being sold back to the previous owners, Robin Childs resigning and problems between the North and South!  You can pick up the latest by clicking on http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=q&board=ROAC

Industry Watch

The Federal Government may be taking an interest in the selling practices in our industry.  For some details, please read the article at http://www.funerals.org/famsa/icfa.htm

Monu-Cad Pro for Windows '95-98 Progress Report

As many of you know, Monu-Cad Pro is available for downloading here on this website.  We just recently uploaded the latest version 2.00.152 for your operating enjoyment.  The development continues at a fast clip with new features becoming available weekly.  Visit this site often to see the latest in Monu-Cad Pro developments.

In addition, we recently finished a BETA version of MCPro with our exclusive thumbnail file selector/database search engine front end.  To test public reaction and acceptance, we have uploaded it to our MCPro download page for you to look over and comment on.   Go to the link below to download the program.

Click Here to View Screen Shots of Monu-Cad Pro

  Click Here To Download MCPro! ...  Click Here

6-7-99

We just uploaded version 2.00.144 of MCPro for downloading.  Click here for download and to read about new features and improvements.  The development process continues.....

5-28-99

We just uploaded version 2.00.143 of MCPro for downloading.  Click here for download and to read about new features and improvements.  The development process continues.....

5-24-99

We just uploaded version 2.00.141 of MCPro for downloading.  Click here for download and to read about new features and improvements.  The development process continues.....

5-21-99

We just uploaded version 2.00.140 of MCPro for downloading.  Click here for download and to read about new features and improvements.

Special mention is made of the contribution made by Tom Cole, Tom McFadden and John Kinnaird for their great feedback testing MCPro.  Thanks Guys!!  We appreciate all your comments and help.

5-12-99

We just uploaded version 2.00.138 of MCPro for downloading.  Click here for download and to read about new features and improvements.

5-11-99  MCPro Update

We are currently polishing Version 2.00.137 for upload.  A few more days work and we'll have it for you.
We have also added a new feature to MonuCut95 which will be included in the download.  Till then....

Read Comments from MCPro Users

Can you afford to waste Stencil?

What is the biggest expense in your shop?  Lets all hear it now!  Stencil!   You buy it, use it once and throw it away!  At between $1.70 - $2.00 per square foot, that is a big expense!

The Facts

A 25" roll costs $106.00 today     a 30" roll costs $127.00 today (2-7-99)

18 rolls of 25" costs $1,908.00     18 rolls of 30" costs $2,286.00

The difference is $378.00 or just about  20%

Our largest competitor's vinyl cutter cannot use 25" stencil!  Only 30"
(and can only cut 27" of the 30" width)

(If you make 500  2-0 x 1-0 grass markers per year you will use (500 / 29 = 17.24) or 18 rolls of stencil on those markers.  (18) 30" rolls costs $2,286.00  (18) 25" rolls costs $1,908.00.  That's a difference of $378.00 (19.81%).)

What size stencil do you normally use?  Exactly!  25 inch!

What does this mean?  It means that the increased stencil cost will very soon wipe out any price savings one might realize from purchasing a system from the big sign maker.

If we round the percentage to 20%, then a larger user who consumes 700 rolls of stencil each year could find a difference of $18,000.00 per year.  For the difference in the cost of stencil, a larger user could afford to buy a whole new system each year with the stencil savings alone!  And, as a bonus, our cutter is 4 times as fast!

For Monument Work, the Monu-Cad cutter saves 20% in stencil costs over the big sign maker's vinyl cutter!  Another benefit from purchasing a system that has been designed by and for the monument industry.

So... when you get a postcard from a certain supplier promoting the big sign maker system, remember that he also sells stencil.