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		<title>3 Ways To Clean Your Marketing Database</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Database Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as 2.5% of a typical sales database goes "bad" each month-30% over the course of a year.  Don't waste marketing dollars on old sales contacts.  See 3 easy ways to stop the "bad" database woes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As much as 2.5% of a typical sales database goes &#8220;bad&#8221; each month &#8211; 30% over the course of a year.  Don&#8217;t waste marketing dollars on old sales contacts. Below are 3 easy ways to stop the &#8220;bad&#8221; database woes.</p>
<h4>Filter Right From the Start</h4>
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<li>Filter out what looks like junk right at the start. Many have a habit of dumping entire Excel or CSV sheets of leads, accounts and contact data which hasn’t been screened before upload for junk data which may be completely unnecessary.</li>
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<h4>Fix It Early</h4>
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<li>Do look for missing data elements like a missing phone number or missing zip code in the address, preferably before uploading the data or at least while entering an individual record. <strong>Appending missing data</strong> at an earlier stage when there are fewer records to handle is a lot easier than having to go through the entire database and then look for what&#8217;s missing.</li>
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<h4>Contact the contacts</h4>
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<li>Send regular audit emails or direct mail to your contacts and track any returns. Clean them from you database. Don&#8217;t ignore them.</li>
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<p>Do this and save your marketing budget by reducing wasted printing, postage, email service charges, and more!
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