Data Cleansing

Who’s afraid of the big bad GDPR?

Whilst created primarily as a tool to help users to select keywords for their Google Adwords campaigns, the rather wonderful Google Adwords Keyword Planner[1] allows you to enter a subject keyword or phrase and find out what related keywords, are being searched for, and the average number of searches per month for each.  (more…)

Duplicate records | lower response and increased cost

 

Two new products from Data8 solves CRM Database’s biggest problem

Research[i] by graphMarketing Sherpa shows that a B2B database naturally degrades at a rate of 2.1% per month: that’s 22.5%, almost a quarter of the database, over the course of a year. The same research shows that large B2C databases degrade by 3.2% or 32.3% per year!  (more…)

I’ve got 99 problems and they’re two for one

What’s worse than one problem? Two problems of course. This could go on – 3 problems, 4 – maybe even or 6. This is applicable to every problem in life. More problems = more misery.

So, with what’s less of a problem and more of a panic-inducing eye opener to many people (I’m talking about GDPR) – many companies are turning their attention to their data quality in their CRM system prior to new legislation becoming enforced.  read more >>>

Alumni are changing and so is your database

I still like to think of myself as a recent graduate. Those days where I had my first chance at an independent life and got to live in a brand new place with my friends seems like it was just yesterday. Truth be told, I graduated in 2015 and have been an adult for a whole two years, so it’s really not that recent.

But when I get an email from my old university giving updates about current students and new technologies, buildings and awards that the university has, I get a little warm fuzzy feeling. read more >>>

Address the treasure in your ‘trash’

“Don’t worry about that bit, barely anyone uses it”

I have heard that statement before and recently a friend of mine got in touch and one of his clients had said something very similar and for once, we decided to question the decision and quantify the decision in order to open the client’s eyes and let them see just what they were throwing away.  read more >>>

5 ways to love your CRM again

Customer relationship management systems, or CRM as they are more affectionately known as, are the backbone of most companies. They are a multiverse of customer data, call tracking and email tracking just to name a few.

So with all this information in CRM, how can you ensure it’s not hindering your business? What can you do to improve your CRM in order to make the most out of it?  read more >>>