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Experts Weigh In on Data Hygiene Best Practices

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Long before cloud-based CRM systems, companies largely relied on manual data entry and cleanup processes. 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.

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Chief Revenue Regrets: Relying on Reps to Provide Forecasting Deal Data

InsightSquared

Fact: Your sales reps, regardless of how great they are, will never deliver the level of hygiene required to give you confidence in your CRM data. That made it difficult to assess the health of my funnel and have confidence in the forecast that I was accountable to deliver. . Neither the quantity nor the quality.

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Automated Data Hygiene: 2019 Database Maintenance

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Data quality and cleanliness is where the real power lies. Today we’re talking about data hygiene and the drastic shift happening in database maintenance right now. Automated Data Maintenance: The Future of Data Hygiene. The importance of ongoing data hygiene. Keep reading. Simple, right?

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How to Make Data Hygiene Your Email Marketing Superpower

Litmus

Data hygiene may not sound like the most exciting part of email marketing—but it’s one of the most important steps to designing campaigns that perform. But just as your subscriber data is always in a state of change—data hygiene is not a one and done proposition. What is data hygiene?

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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? Dirty data impacts every aspect of a business from sales to customer service—but dirty data is especially detrimental to branding initiatives.

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28 Effective Tips for Shortening Your Sales Cycle

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The B2B selling process is slow but steady. On the other hand, a faster sales cycle keeps your buyer’s attention on your offering. Understanding the sales cycle in separate stages helps predict buyer behavior and selling outcomes. Today we’re sharing tips and tricks to shorten the sales cycle, broken down by stage.

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7 Ways to Improve Your Lead Management Process

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In order to convert leads into paying customers, you must have a comprehensive lead management process in place. But, the process of lead management is every bit as multilayered and complex as the modern buyer’s journey. What is lead management? Think of lead management like a house of cards.