Posts tagged ‘Contact’
LeadsCon 2010… Its all about Quality Leads
I am out in Las Vegas attending LeadsCon 2010. THE Lead Generation Conference. After day one, the event is off to a great start. What I have noticed is that throughout the sessions, a recurring theme is Quality.
Quality Data. Quality Leads. Quality relationships between lead buyers and lead sellers.
I couldn’t agree more. The internet is rife with bad data and bad leads. And passing off this bad data as a “lead” is one of the key reasons for friction between Lead Buyers and Lead Sellers. So what is the answer?
“Keeping honest people–honest.” Contact validation is a critical component in this process. Whether you are a lead buyer or a lead seller, contact validation can help ensure the validity and contactability of a lead. By looking at a variety of data points for each contact, Lead Validation will help determine whether or not a lead should be accepted, rejected or reviewed.
The skinny on the benefits:
Lead Sellers- Improve your standings with buyers by increasing your percentage of valid/actionable leads. Demand higher price point per lead.
Lead Buyers- Only buy the leads that are the highest quality and likelihood of contactability.
Visit us on the web to see how our Contact Validation solutions can help you ensure the leads you are buying or selling are really going to drive more business to your bottom line.
Posted by: Gretchen N.
February 24, 2010 at 8:00 am serviceobjects2001 Leave a comment
Why Cross Checking is Important When Using a Contact Validation Web Service
I have been working with web services for over 6 years now and have helped many companies both big and small to resolve their frustration with the online world of bogus lead chaos and bad affiliate programs.
With all of the information and services available to help validate your inbound leads you need to make sure that it is doing more than just a simple check for validity. There are a lot of Lead Validation services out there claiming that they are the best, but let’s really ask ourselves, what are they doing that is so unique? How will they really be able to assure you that they are catching your bad leads?
Good Question.
February 17, 2010 at 3:04 pm serviceobjects2001 Leave a comment
Ever Heard of the Idiom “You Get What you Pay For”?
With our new service DOTS GeoPhone Plus, you get what you pay for, and you only pay for what you get.
Sound confusing?
DOTS GeoPhone Plus is our new token based Web Service; you are only charged for a certain number of tokens based upon the quality of the returned data.
DOTS GeoPhone Plus offers its users the unique ability to verify, correct, and enhance customer contact data in real-time, with support for multiple line types in a single search interface. With Service Objects‘ exclusive cascading logic techniques, we are able to provide cost effective matching for DOTS GeoPhone Plus. If we don’t find any records matching the telephone number that you provided, then you don’t pay for that transaction.
So you get what you pay for, and you only pay for what you get.
Please feel free to contact us today to get additional information, or follow this link to sign up for a Free 15 Day Trial Key of DOTS GeoPhone Plus.
Have a great day!
Ericka J.
Phone Validation Made Simple
Businesses know Phone Validation makes business sense, but how do you use it to your best advantage?
There are several things to consider when trying to validate a telephone number, and in this blog we have broken down the process for you step-by-step. There are many ways to validate a telephone number, and many variables within the number to validate:
- Is the telephone number valid?
- Is the telephone number a landline, wireless, or VoIP?
- Is the telephone number disconnected or not valid (e.g. area code 999 does not exist)?
Service Objects offers the following telephone validation options:
- A multi-database Web service designed to provide the most accurate lookup of landline telephone numbers available
- Updated daily
- 72% match rate for consumers, 63% match rate for businesses
- Coverage for the US and Canada
- Point-of-entry validation
- Instantly recognizes if a telephone number is valid and acceptable by verifying the first seven digits of the number
- Returns line type (landline, wireless, or VoIP)
- Telephone data compiled from over 2,600 US and Canadian telephone service providers
- Returns telephone service provider information (carrier, city, state, latitude, longitude)
- Reverse-lookup of residential, business, and government telephone numbers
- Comprised of daily feeds from over 2,600 telephone companies across the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico
- Over 190 million telephone listings
- Dynamic access to a variety of public, private, and proprietary telephone data
- Determines contact name and address
- Determines telephone type (business or residential)
- Determines line type (landline, wireless, or VoIP)
- Combines 3 of our powerful DOTS telephone validation services (DOTS GeoPhone, DOTS GeoPhone Wireless, and DOTS Phone Append)
- Compares a 10-digit telephone number to our database powerhouse of over 300 million records
- Determines contact name and address
- Determines telephone type (business, residential, Government)
- Determines line type (landline, wireless, VoIP, or toll free)
- Returns telephone service provider information (carrier, city, state, latitude, longitude)
I hope that I have helped in answering your telephone validation questions.
Thanks,
Ryan M.
Excited About DOTS Web Services!
As the spokesperson for our Marketing Department, I can say in all honesty that Marketing gets really excited when a new product is launched. Our wheels start to turn thinking about all of the new sponsorships and opportunities we will have to advertise our newest DOTS Web Service, while increasing brand awareness at the same time. Right now, DOTS GeoPhone Plus has us excited because it is a revolutionary real-time service, filling a great void in the market place. On that note, I am happy to announce the release of DOTS GeoPhone Plus!
So what makes DOTS GeoPhone Plus so exciting? Personally, I find our newest service to be both exciting and impressive because it combines 3 of our key products (DOTS GeoPhone, DOTS GeoPhone Wireless, and DOTS Phone Exchange) and combines them all into one comprehensive solution. I can not tell you how often we hear requests for a product of this kind, so it makes us smile to see it come to fruition and fill the market demand for this type of service.
I encourage you to check out DOTS GeoPhone Plus on our Web site, and try a few lookups of your own by visiting our Lookups page. Hopefully you will find our new product as interesting as I do 
Thanks for reading this week,
Dara F.
P.S. DOTS GeoPhone Plus will also be the topic of our newsletter this month so don’t foget to sign up to receive our newsletter or visit our Newsletter Archive.
The Heart and Soul of Service Objects
To our wonderful clients and thousands of users who click on our Web site each day, Service Objects is a B2B company that provides real-time validation and fraud prevention solutions. But behind it all we have a great team of awesome individuals that not only love to help our clients, but love to help our community as well.
When Alen is not working around the clock to ensure absolute up-time for our clients, when Ryan is not explaining to Project Managers how DOTS Lead Validation can protect their affiliate lead gen projects, and when Jonas is not inventing new logic algorithms to combat the ever-evolving forms of online fraud, you will find Service Objects helping those in need.
At Service Objects social responsibility starts at the top with our executive team. On any given day you may find them serving our community by fixing bicycles on Earth Day, caring for pets during the recent evacuation of the Jesusita fires, or mentoring some of the young adults in Santa Barbara.
Giving back is part of our company culture and is the heart and soul of Service Objects. We are a lifetime supporter of the Humane Society, offer pro-bono licenses for public education, help Angel Flight West transport terminally-ill patients to receive medical care, and donate to local organizations in the Santa Barbara area.
At Service Objects we’re not all about business. We are in the business of helping companies reduce online fraud and validating contact information, but we are also in the business of helping people and giving back.
Thank you,
Marissa B.
When the Going Gets Tough the Tough use DOTS Web Services
With the economy amidst a downfall you need to exercise your budget, right? Service Objects can help you lean down expenses and keep moving forward with DOTS Lead Validation.
Efficiency is key in this day and age, and what directly attributes to efficiency? Streamlining and Automation!
Can you tell just by looking at your leads which ones are HOT and which ones are BAD?
Add up all the money you are spending on the cost of incoming leads, marketing campaigns, and sales team follow-ups. It quickly adds up, especially if your HOT leads are becoming weak during your qualification process. What a waste of time, energy, opportunity, and most of all money!
What if you had instant visibility into your leads? Imagine immediately calling to follow-up with a lead while their interest is still fresh. There would be no doubt that you would easily increase sales and efficiency. 
DOTS Lead Validation will do all the work for you within milliseconds! You will instantly know if the lead is a business or consumer, if their telephone number, mailing address, email, and IP number are valid, and if that lead is worth your time and money.
As proof that DOTS Lead Validation works, check out our Web site, we are HIRING not firing, because we are doing well despite the recession. Why? Because DOTS Lead Validation works for us too 
So, keep your business focused on strong leads during tough times. Get strong and get going with DOTS Lead Validation!
Thanks for reading this week,
Ericka J.
March 27, 2009 at 4:10 pm serviceobjects2001 Leave a comment
Sales Tax and Address Validation: The Easy E-Commerce Solution
The economy is forcing many stores to close their doors, and as a result, we are seeing more and more businesses move to the internet. What was once a cash and carry nation, has evolved into a PayPal™ and UPS™ standard way of life.
With e-commerce redefining the business world, the little fish finally get to swim in the same pond as the big fish. Anyone with a budget and a vision can launch an online store front, and that’s where we can help.
Service Objects offers fast and easy solutions to help merchants successfully run their online businesses. Our DOTS FastTaxSM Web Service calculates sales tax and use tax, based on street address, zip code, or simple city/state/county information. It can easily integrate into your shopping cart, so the correct tax rate will auto-populate during checkout. We host the tax data and update it monthly, so you don’t have to waste time looking up tax rates or pay a third party to audit your books.
Along with calculating correct sales tax, another critical component to running an online business is verifying customer mailing addresses. DOTS Address ValidationSM is our most popular service – it corrects and standardizes U.S. addresses, as well as determines whether an address is deliverable or not. By using DOTS Address Validation to correct shipping and billing addresses at the point-of-entry, you can prevent the hefty cost of returned packages. We are one of only a few companies that the USPS® trusts with their data, and with monthly data updates, you get only the most accurate mailing information every time.
Combining the power of DOTS Address Validation and DOTS FastTax offers online merchants a simple and effective e-commerce solution. For less than the price of a latte each day, you can calculate tax rates and correct addresses for all of your online customers.
Service Objects offers a diverse range of products to help your online business run smoother, faster, and more efficiently. Give Service Objects a call today, to find out how we can build an affordable solution for you. You can also find out more about our solutions by visiting our Web site.
Thanks for reading,
Marissa B.
February 26, 2009 at 6:58 pm serviceobjects2001 Leave a comment
What’s New at Service Objects?
The development team here at Service Objects is always hard at work supporting, enhancing, and building new Web services. For this blog, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk to you about two new and enhanced Web services, that we will be releasing in the near future!
DOTS GeoPhone Plus is a new composite service that builds on upon a few of our current Web services, DOTS Phone Exchange, DOTS GeoPhone, and DOTS GeoPhone Wireless. DOTS GeoPhone Plus rolls all of these services into a one-stop shop for telephone number information and validation.
In the past, clients may have purchased up to all three of the previous telephone Web services in order to efficiently access the full range of telephone number information and contact data. Now, clients can access all of same the data with just one transaction of DOTS GeoPhone Plus.
Another new service we are rolling out is DOTS Demographics Plus. In addition to the normal zip code level information returned by the older service, DOTS Demographics, new low level information is also returned. Instead of a zip code, an address is now used as the Web service input. The returned output fields provide resolution down to the block level (about 50 people). Data available at this level includes age, income, and race distributions.
These new services will be available soon and we have many new interesting Web services in the works as well.
Stay tuned!
Jonas S.
February 23, 2009 at 4:40 pm serviceobjects2001 Leave a comment
All the Tools to get your Service Objects Questions Answered
As a member of the Service Objects‘ marketing team, I know first hand that the words contact validation and web services can cause a few questions, and we are always focused on providing our customers and prospects with the tools and information that they need to not only to answer these questions, but also to share how DOTS Web Services can resolve their contact validation needs.
In this blog I would like to point some of these sources out, in hopes that I can provide anyone who wants to know more about Service Objects with some helpful tools that will enable you to do just that.
- Our Web site. I am very happy to say that Service Objects has just released our new and improved Web site! Check it out at www.serviceobjects.com.
- Service Objects’ Monthly Tips and Tricks Newsletter. Every month Service Objects is committed to providing our readers with leading industry news and innovative ways to use DOTS Web Services. You can find our archive of Tips & Tricks Newsletters in our Web site archive, or by subscribing through our online subscription page.
- Product Data Sheets. The best way to gain knowledge is straight from the source, and our data sheets provide just that. You can find data sheets from almost any of our product pages, just click on the Data Sheet button located under Helpful Links.
- Our blog of course! Our blog is a great way for Service Objects team members to share interesting news and insights, and we encourage readers to share their thoughts and feedback with us.
I hope that I was able to provide any curious readers with the tools to get your questions answered. Thanks for reading this week and don’t forget to leave us your questions or comments!
Thanks again,
Dara F.
February 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm serviceobjects2001 Leave a comment
