De-duping data is one of the most popular uses of our services, and for good reasons: duplicated data can lead to redundancy, extra costs, waste and even lack of customer engagement. In this blog post, we...
A quick online search of the US white pages shows that there are over 1500 real people named George Washington, more than 50 named William Shakespeare, and a surprising number of Steven Spielbergs. There...
How good are your leads? DOTS Lead Validation, Service Objects’ most popular composite service, is designed to measure lead quality – helping our clients reduce fraud, increase conversions and enhance...
What’s in a name? Hopefully, valuable contact data for your business. But some names clearly contain red flags for bad data – and that’s where we come in.Name Validation is a very effective tool...
All right, we are finally going to admit it: there are some bad mailing addresses out there that even Service Objects can’t fix.Of course, we’re talking about cases like illegible handwriting,...
Here at Service Objects we come across a lot of names, particularly the names of places. We also work with a lot of personal names, but for now I would like to focus on just place names. Whether the name...
The bane of any Database Administrator is maintaining duplicate records. They take up unnecessary space and generally do not provide any added value to contact records. A more challenging task for Database...
What's in a name? Everything -- especially if you're trying to connect with customers and prospects. If you're emailing, mailing, or calling someone and you have her name wrong, you've already lost her....
Name Validation It's very important in a lot of ways - it’s one of the easiest ways for someone to provide fake information on a web form but can be very tricky to properly detect. Take this example of...
The real estate industry can gain a competitive edge with data validation Data-based marketing, outreach and lead generation isn’t only for cutting-edge B2B companies anymore. Data runs the world these...
Have you ever misspelled a customer’s name? If so, then you know that the backtracking you need to do in order to remedy the problem can take some time and effort. Misspelling customers’ names,...
Olá, Grüezi, Cześć, ¡Hola! - Hello! While you may or may not be multilingual, your company likely has customers whose names contain accented Latin characters such as ø, á, ñ, or ü.A brief...
New video series Connecting the DOTS featuring Jim Harris of Obsessive-Compulsive-Data-Quality explores name validation and it's important role in ensuring data quality excellence within your organization....
Little known fact: William Shakespeare was an accomplished data quality expert before he hit it big as a playwright. In fact, data quality was an underlying theme of many of his plays. Name validation,...
An Open Letter to Businesses,Last week we learned of an extremely unfortunate event where a Fortune 500 company unintentionally mislabeled a piece of promotional mail with a very hurtful personal...
“Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” - Dale Carnegie, "How to Win Friends & Influence People"In today’s highly...
The Most Popular Names in Social NetworksWhat's the most "social" name in the networks? It may not be what you think it is because of many factors, the first being that many popular social networks...
