If so, we recommed you look at a few of the options you have available:

1. Continue to collect these numbers but pass them though a data cleansing service before calling

2. Validate the numbers using rule based telephone validation to eliminate a high proportion of these numbers

3. Use real-time mobile validation and landline validation at the point of entry to prompt a user that they have entered incorrect details and can not proceed

4. Integrate telephone validation as part of a score card on your contact form with other services such as residency verification, email validation and salacious names lookup to filter out all invalid registrations.

To find out more about the webservice APIs available from Data8, feel free to call us on 0151 355 4555 for a non-obligation Free Trial.

With Royal Mail increasing the cost of postage stamps by 14p it has never been more important to make sure that your mail ends up on the right doorstep.

Pricing for first class stamps will increase to 60p and second class to 50p on 30th April.

Capturing an address from a postcode at point of entry on your webform is a simple way to ensure you are collecting real valid data for just a few pence. Adding adding postcode lookup to your site you also speeds up registration, reducing form abandonment.

Data8's suite of validation webservices allow you to capture accurate telephone numbers, email addresses and using electoral roll, you can also capture a name from an address.

Users often leave web pages in between 10 and 20 seconds and the average online shopper expects your pages to load in less than two seconds. 

If you are able to capture one piece of information from your prospects before they leave, you have a chance of retaining them and turning them into customers.

With data8's validation services, in less than a second you can validate a postal address, validate an email address or a telephone number to ensure that you are capturing valid information, even if the prospect does not complete the transaction.

Shopping tools, interactive games, and videos are great for attracting attention, and hold interest but unless you get valid contact information you may not profit directly from them. If you feel that you are driving customers away, we would recommend adding telephone validation to your site early in the process to ensure you can make future contact. 

Targeting your marketing campaign to the right prospects in these tough economic times has never been more important. At Data8 we help you to get results from your direct marketing campaigns.

Before a typical mailing, most businesses are required to perform an export, then provide the resulting data to a third party who perform a cleanse before receiving the results back and importing the data back into the CRM ... A lengthy process, which depending on results can sometimes require further work to tidy up before sending.

Data8 offer a service which allows you to cleanse directly from within a campaign in Dynamics CRM. You can integrate our lifestyle and wealth api to collate data to make selections, then remove goneaway records within CRM, find new mover addresses and append MPS flags to avoid sending mailings to your clients on the Mailing Preference Service.

In addition you can PAF uplift your CRM records to royal mail standard and use CBC codes so that your campaign will qualify for mailing discounts from Royal Mail.

The new release for the postcode lookup plug-in for Dynamics CRM 2011 now also works seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics AX. 

After requests from a number of CRM resellers, we have found that often customers who use both CRM and ERP systems enter a lot of their data into their ERP system first before adding that data into Dynamics CRM. We are now able to offer a cost effective solution to PAF validate address information for accounts, leads and all other entities at the point of entry.

To get installation files and instructions on how to add postcode lookup to Microsoft Dynamics AX and Dynamics NAV feel free to contact us by email at info@data-8.co.uk