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الأربعاء، 28 أغسطس 2013

Address Book Software With Built In Verification System

By Celina Heath


Verifying information with specialized address book software can be an important marketing process for businesses that deal with bulk mailings and other important types of marketing mail. This software compares the information entered into it with what the postal service has on official record. This verification is helpful in locating mistakes in things like street names, misspelled towns, incorrect states and incorrect zip codes.

As time passes, a company's on file information could just become out of date, often as a result of the postal service making changes. Components, like zip codes, can be changed if a specific area grows rapidly and one zip code is not able to efficiently deal with mail processing for the area. A few additional zip codes can be added to that area, just to reduce the work involved with processing and delivering mail to the residents there.

A wrong entry can often find its way into a database because of sloppy handwriting. Many companies create their mailing lists by taking information from registration forms that have been filled out by hand. If a person has sloppy handwriting, this can make them hard to read. Data entry personnel could encounter difficulties reading this information and mistakenly enter something wrong because of misinterpretation.

Some companies use software that can scan, interpret and then input information from these forms. This is a highly sophisticated business tool, but it is not always reliable. The program has to make a best guess in many situations just to decipher something that resembles an address and it might not always be the correct guess. This happens rather frequently when handwritten information is involved.

Human error can else cause addresses to be entered wrong. A wrong keystroke or even a guess at how something should be spelled can result in a completely incorrect entry that is not even a real address. This can lead to returned mailings or wrong deliveries. When things like this occur, the postage spent is wasted because the mailing never made it to the person it was targeting.

Basically, there are a number of different ways for a wrong address to find its way into a system. By using software to verify this information through the postal service, the problem can be almost completely eliminated. The number of returned or wrongfully delivered mailings with verification is greatly reduced in comparison to the number when verification is not involved.

By increasing the number of mailings that are being correctly delivered, a higher rate of return is generated. A larger number of intended marketing targets will translate to a higher volume of sales. Instead of postage prices being wasted on mailings that end up in the wrong person's hands, the mailings actually make their way to where they were intended to.

Verifying addresses with special address book software can enable a company to verify every piece of information on their mailing list, so it becomes a vital process. The number of mistakes being made are reduced and less money is spent on postage for no reason. The volume of correctly targeted consumers is increased, so sales are increased in the process, creating an invaluable marketing strategy.




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