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Contact Data Hygiene and the Future of Branding

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Today, we explain the importance of a data-driven branding strategy and why contact data hygiene is the key to branding success. What is a data-driven branding strategy? Thus, creating buyer personas. If you’re working with accurate data, pinpointing lead source is relatively simple.

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Experts Weigh In on Data Hygiene Best Practices

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But this can leave your contact and company data fraught with errors and inconsistencies. Although most companies have now adopted some version of a data hygiene strategy, dirty data is still very much alive and well. Data hygiene is the continuous practice of eliminating dirty data to maintain a clean database.

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Tackling Bad Data: How Poor Data Quality Impacts Your B2B Bottom Line

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Considering that 42% of sales reps feel they don’t have enough information before making a call, working with patchy, inaccurate data further compounds their ability to do their job well. . With ongoing data hygiene maintenance, reps can barrel through call lists, spending more time connecting with quality prospects and leads.

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The Impact of Bad B2B Marketing Data

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So, what does list churn have to do with B2B marketing data? Think about it: if your department doesn’t prioritize data hygiene, it’s likely that list churn is wreaking havoc on your email campaigns. Unfortunately, if your database contains inaccuracies you might be basing your buyer personas on completely false information.

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Give the Gift of Automated Data Maintenance [Infographic]

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Unfortunately, even if you invest in high quality data—it decays rapidly as people change jobs, companies go out of business, and mergers occur. . In an environment where data is currency, quality is key. But it’s become increasingly difficult to stay on top of data hygiene. The Impact of Bad Data on Sales.

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28 Effective Tips for Shortening Your Sales Cycle

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Research is essential in this stage — you want to know who’s fit to be a buyer, and you want to tell them exactly what they want to hear. Use your defined buyer personas and ideal customer profiles (ICPs). Practice data hygiene in all data systems. So let’s begin our list of tips!: Engagement.

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7 Ways to Improve Your Lead Management Process

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Create buyer personas. Think about it— if you don’t understand your best buyers, how can you accurately qualify them, nurture them, or route them to sales at precisely the right moment? For this reason, buyer personas are essential to your lead management strategy. But if you’re not, here’s a quick rundown.