A frequently complaint from direct marketers is that their data contains unidentified foreign addresses. The
world is shrinking and successful companies often find themselves talking to a wider market than they
originally envisaged. It is only later on that a marketer realises that the database has no column for a
country name to be stored in and that all the data is mixed together with no way of separating and
segmenting by country.
Our Country Detection service not only identifies a record as foreign, but goes further and indicates
the country that the address in each record is from, or whether there is insufficient address information
to identify the country.
See an example of the Country Detection service in action.
It seems a simple request to be able to append the correct country code, however the truth is that it is
a complicated process. Our international database includes data on over 6 million place names across 247 countries
with additional information detailing alternative spellings and translations. This data, along with information about
how different countries implement the various postal code systems, allows us to offer a truely wordwide country
detection service.
Benefits
- Enables you to identify foreign records
- Saves you money on mailing campaigns
- Helps segmentation of your database
Examples
The following data in your customer database:
| Add1 |
Add2 |
Add3 |
Postcode |
| 68 Longview Drive |
Bradford |
|
L3Z 2Z1 |
| 80 Mulberry Street |
Wellington |
|
5010 |
can be cleansed by this service to:
| Add1 |
Add2 |
Add3 |
Postcode |
Country Code |
Country Name |
| 68 Longview Drive |
Bradford |
|
L3Z 2Z1 |
CA |
Canada |
| 80 Mulberry Street |
Wellington |
|
5010 |
NZ |
New Zealand |
Pricing
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