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Data Hygiene Best Practices

SmartBug Media

Whether you are merging databases, implementing a new system, or simply looking to improve the quality of your data, following a set of data hygiene best practices will help you optimize your database, enhance efficiency, and unlock your business’s true potential. What Is Data Hygiene?

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Data Hygiene: Mastering CRM Data Cleansing for Optimal Performance

Only B2B

In today’s digital era, businesses heavily rely on customer relationship management (CRM) systems to streamline their operations and drive growth. However, without proper data hygiene practices, CRM data can quickly become messy and unreliable. So, buckle up and get ready to clean up your CRM data!

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27% of Marketers Say ‘Bad Data’ Costs Them 10% or More in Lost Revenue Annually

KoMarketing Associates

Although marketers now have an abundance of data and analytics at their disposal, new research shows that those who do not regularly check their information for inaccuracies may be at a disadvantage. Almost half of respondents could not estimate how bad data impacts their organization’s revenue.

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Report: Marketing and Sales Professionals to Team Up, Clean Up Data

KoMarketing Associates

About 53% believe that insights into B2B customers will become clearer by focusing on data integrity as well, such as data hygiene, cleanliness and robustness. In terms of existing data and analytics practices, most marketers and sales professionals (41%) say that they perform manual maintenance based on data governance rules.

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Tips for Preventing Data Decay in B2B Sales

Only B2B

Businesses-to-business (B2B) organizations must regularly update and correctly preserve data assets to stop data deterioration in order to meet the growing need for data-driven choices. However, a vast majority of firms still lack the ability to secure their data hygiene, which has a negative impact on their operations.

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Leveraging Integration Projects: How to Keep Your CRM Data Clean

SmartBug Media

Before diving into a customer relationship management (CRM) platform integration project , one step to take is the always important but somewhat dreaded task of data cleaning. When compiling a lot of information or maintaining a large CRM, it’s common to run into duplication issues. Validate Your Data Regularly.

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How to Avoid the Spam Trap

Zoominfo

While it’s impossible to avoid spam traps entirely, good data hygiene will help you limit exposure. A spam trap is a valid, deliverable email address used exclusively to receive (“trap”) unsolicited emails. Clean out inactive contacts in your CRM and marketing automation tool. What is a spam trap?