Leaking Profits? Plug up the UAA Drain!

Melissa Team | Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Article, Direct Mail, Mailing, Mailing & Shipping, Mailing Lists, NCOA, PAVE Certified | , , , , , , , , ,

Are you struggling to keep printing postage and service costs down? One culprit that could be putting a drain on your profit is return mail. You’d be surprised how undeliverable-as-addressed mail (UAA) can operate like a small tax on your business – costing a little bit in a lot of areas. Turn to page 24 in Mailing Systems and Technology’s June issue to see Melissa’s article: Taking Action to Void Undeliverable-as-Addressed Mail.… Read More

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

Melissa Team | Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Search, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Geocoding, Global Address Verification, Identity Resolution | , , , , , , , ,

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 quality of your address data.… Read More

Melissa’s Clean Suite Fights Dirty Data in CRM Platforms

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Vibrant Data Protects Customer Experience and Boosts Value of Omnichannel Marketing; Demos at Dreamforce #DF18

Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – September 26, 2018 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced its Clean Suite for CRM, comprehensive data quality tools and services that provide clean data for successful omnichannel marketing. Optimized for Salesforce, Clean Suite verifies, standardizes, corrects, and appends customer contact data records – fueling marketing efforts with information that protects resources and results.… Read More

jQuery UI and Auto-Complete Address Entry

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By Ian Elliot, i-Programmer Author

jQuery UI has a
little-known feature that makes interactive auto-complete very easy. In this
hands-on tutorial we put it together with the cloud-based Global Express Entry
address auto-complete service from Melissa to smooth over one of the biggest
problems in getting users to sign up.

There are many things that
users hate having to do on a website, but they all come down to the same thing
– they hate having to do work.
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Storing International Postal Data

Melissa Team | Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Data Quality, International Address Verification | , , , ,

By Charles Gaddy

I’m sitting in my favorite coffee shop, scanning the patrons in the room. One
thing came to mind – this restaurant reflects a good cross-section of America. I
took an impromptu poll among some of the people I met over the course of a month to ask two
questions:

1. Do you think you could make an international phone call?

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