--- title: "Keep it clean: Why cleansing your data is good for your business" description: Did you know that business data decays at a rate of 37% per annum, and up to 67% of UK B2B mailings contain errors? 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This process is highly vital to a company as, more often than not, a lack of concise, up-to-date information can threaten customer and seller relationships and ultimately can be damaging to your business in the long term.   Effects data decay have on your databases: ·         **Missing Data:** empty fields that should contain data ·         **Wrong or Inaccurate data:** information that hasn’t been entered correctly or maintained ·         **Inappropriate Data:** data that is entered in the wrong field ·         **Non- conforming data:** data that has not been normalised ·         **Duplicate Data:** data that occupies more than one record ·         **Poor Data Entry:** typos, transpositions, and variation in naming and formatting   The impact data decay can have on your organisation: ·         Failure of your marketing automated initiatives ·         Distorting campaign success metrics ·         Dissatisfied sales and distribution channels ·         Higher spam counts and un-subscriptions ·         Invalid invoice data ·         Loss in revenue/ cost to the business from processing errors   Data cleansing is a necessary business function that ultimately helps maintain important business information at an efficient, high-quality level to prevent further problems later down the line. 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