Category: Geocoding

Posted on Categories Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Verification, Article, Geocoding, Global Address Verification, Identity Resolution, Personator

There’s a Big Elephant in Your Business – Name it and Tame it!

There is an elephant in every business – and it’s trampling company profits, scaring away customers and blocking valuable insights. What’s your company’s elephant? Is it returned mail? Fraudulent transactions? Bad business decisions? Beware, these problems all stem from one big beast – bad address data. It’s time to address the elephant. Effective communications, predictive analytics, fraud prevention and ultimately,…

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Posted on Posted by Melissa Team Categories Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Search, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Geocoding, Global Address Verification, Identity Resolution

Hip, Hip, Hooray! The Elephant Gets Addressed Today.

What’s the elephant in your business? Every company has one! I’m talking about the thing that costs you money, customers and insight. Could it be returned mail? How about fraudulent transactions? Whatever the problem, it all stems from one big beast – bad address data. Customer communication, fraud prevention, predictive analytics and ultimately, your bottom line, all hinge on the…

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Posted on Posted by Melissa Team Categories Address Correction, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Customer Identities, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Demographics, Digital Identity Verification, Ecommerce, eIDV, EIV, Email Verification, Full Contact Authentication, Geocoding, Global Address Verification, Global ID Verification, Global Phone Verification, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, Personator World

Capturing Current & Correct Customer Data – Why is it so Important in E-Commerce?

Up Close & Personal – The Four P’s of People Data Nothing holds more value for ecommerce organizations than accurate people data – name, address, phone, email and demographics. We have outlined four major factors that impact the success of a business and increase customer satisfaction in regards to accurate and complete people data. 1. Protect your organization – By…

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Posted on Posted by Author Categories Geocoding, Location Intelligence, Street Route

Accurate Proximity Data – Help or Hindrance for Today’s Brick & Mortar?

Can giving your customers accurate proximity data to your brick and mortar store help your business? There are many Store Locator solutions on the market which businesses use to help potential customers come to the decision that the proximity will result in an actual visit. This usually requires integrating a third party web site widget or licensing an API. When…

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Posted on Posted by Author Categories Geocoding, Location Intelligence

Coordinates Cooperate with GeoCoder

Rural America. Farm country. Quiet living. Some phrases that come to mind when thinking about a small town like Potwin, Kansas. With a population of 468, how is it possible that Potwin is also home to more than 600 million IP addresses? Some of which are connected to scammers, spammers and fraudsters! Confounded Coordinates Using IP geolocation to map a…

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Posted on Posted by Blog Administrator Categories Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Geocoding, hazard data, Hazard Hub, IP Location, Location Intelligence, Marketing, Property Data

Making Data Work for Your Geospatial Challenges

Anyone who has looked at flood data knows that FEMA is not the answer. It's not that FEMA doesn't try to accurately map what they believe to be floodable areas. It's that FEMA is politically driven. As a city, you do not have to participate in FEMA mapping. Why would you not participate? Well, properties in flood zones tend to have lower valuations, and lower…

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Posted on Posted by Blog Administrator Categories Geocoding, IP Location, Location Intelligence

Melissa Property Intelligence Now Details Precise Location Risk from Natural Disasters

By Bud Walker, Vice President Sales & Strategy, Melissa Nobody has to be reminded that we're in the middle of hurricane season, certainly not if they live in Texas or Florida. They're personally going through the experience of living in the path of lots of wind and water.For many others, however, including companies and communities, risk comes in many forms, with…

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Posted on Posted by Blog Administrator Categories Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Analyzing Data Quality, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Data Quality Components for SSIS, Full Contact Authentication, Geocoding, Global Address Verification

How to Do It All with Melissa

With Melissa, you can do it all - see for yourself with the brand new Solutions Catalog. This catalog showcases products to transform your people data (names, addresses, emails, phone numbers) into accurate, actionable insight. Our products are in the Cloud or available via easy plugins and APIs. We provide solutions to power Know Your Customer initiatives, improve mail deliverability…

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Posted on Posted by Blog Administrator Categories Geocoding, Postal Address Standards, USPS, ZIP Codes

Looking for Geo-Referenced Data You Can Integrate in a Flash?

Global GeoPostcode data provides a common dataset structure for all countries, containing all localities, ZIP/postal codes, administrative divisions, statistical units, reference codes, time zones, elevations and, for selected countries, neighborhoods, suburbs and streets. All data are geo-referenced and available in local language, transliterated English and non-accented ASCII versions. Global GeoPostcode data can be integrated into professional software, websites and mobile…

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