The monument industry is built on relationships, not equipment. You don't need a shop. You don't need experience. You need a partner who's been doing this for 88 years and is ready to help you build something real.
Most industries reward whoever spends the most on equipment, inventory, and staff. Monument sales is not that kind of business.
Families buy monuments once — maybe twice in a lifetime. They don't shop on price. They buy from someone they trust, in a conversation that takes time and patience. The person who earns that trust gets the sale. The transaction size is significant. The referrals are generational.
What you actually need to succeed in monument sales: a local market, the ability to build trust, and a manufacturing and installation partner who handles everything downstream from the sale. That's us.
You sell. We build. You earn.
Everything you need to start taking orders and delivering finished monuments — without buying a single piece of equipment.
No wholesale middleman. You buy at our direct-import price with your dealer margin built in — better pricing than most dealers can get on their own.
You take the order and the deposit. We produce the monument and install it at the cemetery. You don't need a shop, equipment, or installation crew.
Digital design tools and proof approval workflow — so you can show customers exactly what their monument will look like before production.
We'll teach you how to sell monuments — how to measure, how to work with cemeteries, how to handle grief conversations. You don't start from zero.
You know your cost on every order upfront. No hidden fees, no per-order surprises. Your margin is your business.
When a customer asks who's making the monument, you can say Gifford Monument Works — Ada, Oklahoma, since 1936. That means something.
From your first conversation with us to delivering a finished monument to a family — here's the path.
Tell us about yourself — your background, your market, and what you're looking for. No experience in the monument business required.
We'll walk you through our product catalog, pricing structure, ordering system, and cemetery coordination process. We handle the learning curve.
Take an order, place it with us, and deliver a finished monument to a local family. We handle production, quality control, and installation.
Grow at your own pace. Some dealers run a few orders a month. Others build full-time businesses. We support both.
Our dealers come from all kinds of backgrounds. What they have in common: a local market and the desire to build something.
Families already trust you with the most important day of their lives. A monument is a natural extension of that relationship — and a significant revenue opportunity.
Families buying plots need monuments. Being able to offer that in-house — or recommend a partner — closes a gap that most cemeteries leave open.
You already serve grieving families. Adding monument sales to your offering doesn't require a new customer base — it deepens the relationship with the one you have.
Monument companies are often absent or weak in smaller towns. If there's no local monument dealer within 30 miles, that's a business opportunity. We'll help you fill it.
High-ticket, relationship-driven, repeat-customer business. If you know how to build trust and close consultative sales, the monument business rewards those skills.
No monument industry background required. We've helped people with zero experience learn the business from scratch. What we can't teach is drive.
We're not a wholesale distributor building a retail empire. We don't compete with our dealers. We're a manufacturer and installer — your upstream partner, not your competitor.
We source granite directly from overseas factories. Our dealers get that pricing advantage. No regional distributor marking up between the quarry and your customer.
We've seen every kind of order, every cemetery, every grief situation. That experience is available to you from day one through our support and training.
We don't undercut our dealers with direct-to-consumer marketing in their territory. If you're our dealer in your town, you're our dealer in your town.
"I had no idea how the monument business worked when I started. Gifford walked me through everything — how to take measurements, how to work with cemeteries, what to say when a family is grieving. A year in, it's a real business."
Independent Dealer
Small market, Oklahoma
The first step is a phone call. No application fee, no commitment. Just a conversation about whether this is a good fit.
Gifford Monument Works · Ada, Oklahoma · Wholesale dealer program · Oklahoma & Texas markets