by Xcelerated Data | Mar 20, 2024 | Data From the Trenches, Data Insights, Data Quality, Resources
Think about it, how many existing customers are you no longer able to contact? Consider this: dealerships invest a considerable sum, roughly $500, to acquire just one new customer. Yet, shockingly, the ability to upkeep the existing customer database is an ongoing...
by Pam Lang | Mar 28, 2022 | Data Insights, Data Quality, Resources
Whether your data is right or wrong, it’s driving every decision you make. Read that again. Whether your data is right or wrong, it’s driving every decision you make. Let’s face it. Maintaining quality data is a never-ending, thorny challenge that...
by Pam Lang | Feb 1, 2022 | Data Insights, Data Quality, Deduping, Resources
How do you treat your duplicates? Stop for a moment and think about this… The natural reaction for most companies is to delete duplicate records without much thought. But we LOVE duplicates! ..so much information to glean. So, there are really 3 main choices to...
by Pam Lang | Sep 6, 2021 | Data Quality, Deduping, Resources
It happens…You’re under a time crunch to deliver data for a business project, and a few duplicates catch your eye. What now?Luckily, Excel provides tools to dedupe data in a pinch. WAIT!! Before you click that Remove Duplicates button, and before you delete any...
by Luc Patterson | Aug 30, 2021 | Data Quality, Deduping, Resources
Even the “right tools”, if used incorrectly, can have devastating results We had to deliver the bad news: The agency’s team was removing the wrong records from the clients’ data. On one small campaign alone the agency lost $1100.But it was...