Add Quality to your Data

We cannot speak enough about the importance of quality data. We know that it is the foundation of your marketing effort. So here are some tips that will help you improve your data quality.

Audit is a must

Have a process in place to track your mail deliverability. It is vital to know which emails bounced back and update your database accordingly. This will help improve the effectiveness of your communication and overall planning in the long term.

Verify information at the start

Procure all required information when the contact is engaged. This is the right time to get information and make corrections if necessary.  This can be done through a web form, a telephone call, or even a live web chat. Incomplete information will hinder the work of your sales team. Ensure that you get all elements in the contact form filled.

Know your data inside out

Understand your data. Be on top of it. You should be able to identify data entry trends. Find out the sources of your bad data and eliminate it with right data verification and standardization processes. Tracking your mail deliverability will help you understanding your data quality challenges.

Get all involved

Get all departments involved in the data management process. As data quality leads to huge business benefits, this effort should be shared by all employees who capture, access, manipulate, and update CRM records. Look for tools that empower your staff to enhance data quality.

Refresh database

Data expires very quickly, especially in this fast-paced digital world. Regular database check-ups is therefore a must.

We at Prepackaged Marketing Data work towards providing you with the best data to make your marketing efforts bear fruits. Contact us for a free consultation. 

5 Ways to Improve Data Quality

I have been writing about the benefits of effective email marketing. And it is common knowledge that your email marketing effort will not bring in the desired results unless you have good database. So before you begin building your email campaign, make sure you get your hands on the relevant database. Quality of the data can be ensured by following these tips:

  

1) Keep track of your mails

You should have a process in place to track the status of the mails you have sent. Emails that bounced back or were returned should be marked and the database updated accordingly. A proactive database is a necessity for improved communication effectiveness.

2) Double-check information before database entry

It is always easier and better to verify the information properly before making it a part of your database. Cross-checking later can be difficult. Correcting contact information is always easier when the client is engaged.

3) Know your data well

Understanding your data quality challenges and making required system changes over time are vital.

4) Get experts to manage data

Appoint multiple data quality managers who know the in and out of data quality management.

5) Have regular database checkups

Data expires pretty quickly. A regular database check-up to ensure that old data is refreshed is indispensable. To ensure contact data integrity, supplement real-time address verification efforts with regular bulk processing.

We, at Prepackaged Marketing Data, work towards providing you with the best data to make your marketing efforts bear fruits. Contact us for a free consultation. 

The Indispensable Database

“In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.” - Stan Rapp, MRM Partners Worldwide

Midst all the emerging shiny new technologies and digital platforms, the relevance of database has only increased. Creating, maintaining and using a database of customers’ is utmost important. Database holds much relevance because all your marketing efforts are based on it.

Who exactly are your customers? What age are they? Where do they come from? What are their characteristics & lifestyles? These are the questions your database should answer. 

All relevant details about your customers are crucial to understand exactly who your target market is. It also ensures that future marketing activities are more relevant. Measuring the effectiveness & ROI of your marketing efforts cannot be achieved unless you capture, store and utilize the information from your database. 

Your customer details must be in one place so they’re easily accessible for speed and accuracy with the ability to collate and measure that data. The database should be carefully maintained and regularly updated, to make full and effective use of a database thus created.

A good database will help you understand:

• Cost Per Lead
• Cost Per Sale
• Conversion Ratios – Enquiries to Sales
• Customer trends & habits
• Customer location
• Customer demographics
• Customer lifestyle

We will be happy to tell you about our database marketing services.

Better data = Better conversion rate

The returns on your marketing efforts depend on the success rate of your marketing messages. It is pertinent that it reaches the right people. Email marketing is an effective and viable method to reach maximum number of people. However, the effectiveness of your campaign depends on the quality of the data.

Along with effective content, Data Quality is also one of the most crucial requirements in achieving effective email marketing. Your interesting and engaging content for your email can be an utter waste if you end up sending it to a ‘bad’ list.

What components make a bad list?

• Duplicate email addresses
• Dead email addresses e.g. address of a person who is no longer the employee of a company
• Wrong email addresses
• Incorrect email formats
• Spacing errors

So, it is essential to remove bad elements in the data before sending email marketing campaigns. For this, the database has to be cleansed.  This cleansing can be achieved using two methods:

• Software
• Manual

Software is more effective as manual cleaning only eliminates spelling and spacing errors and duplicate emails. However, some data must be removed manually – such as returned and bounced emails.

Uncleansed data can only lead to futile marketing efforts, both in the form of the salespeople following invalid leads and unnecessary expenditure over irrelevant emails. The best practice is to cleanse the data before starting a new campaign. Make sure to remove any incorrect or unsuccessful email addresses from previous campaigns.

If you fail to clean your data it could result in you being blacklisted from both your email marketing provider and also from email providers, which is bad for your brand, reputation and also your marketing.

Having a clean database will improve efficiency and will likely improve your response rates, as a more focused and relevant database is used.