Determining Sales Tax Nexus: It’s Trickier Than You Think
If you sell products nationally, do you need to collect state or local sales taxes? The answer may be more complicated than you think. In the United States ...
Cyber Monday is Coming. Is Your Business Ready?
In 2017, Cyber Monday sales reached an all-time high – and trends show that we may see another record-breaking year. Service Objects broke its own record last Cyber ...
Contact Data Spam: A Lesson from Google Maps
We have spoken often on these pages about the importance of validating your contact data, to make sure you have a valid address and a quality lead. Whether ...
The Benefits of Email Marketing
Few marketing channels share the power of email. It is immediate, urgent, personalized and inexpensive. And according to the Direct Marketing Association, it has the highest ROI of ...
Lead Validation International: Best Practices
DOTS Lead Validation – International has been available for almost a year, and we have received great feedback from our customers on how they are using it. Using ...
Garbage In, Garbage Out – How Bad Data Hurts Your Business
The old saying “garbage in, garbage out” has been around since the early days of modern computing. Code for operator error or bad data, the adage implies that ...
Better Sales Tax Matches with New FastTax Improvements
Service Objects has been returning location-based tax rates in the DOTS FastTax API since 2001. Back then, we identified sales tax rates using only zip code. Since zip ...
The Role Data Quality Plays in Master Data Management
Enterprises are dealing with more data than ever before, which means that proper information architecture and storage is crucial. What’s more, the quality of the data you store ...
Preventing Fraud Associated with the Freight Forwarding Industry
Service Objects is committed to fighting fraud and bad data wherever we see it. Through our APIs, best practices when handling sensitive data, or through recommendations on clients’ ...
