What are some phone appending services?

The most common type of phone appending service is to find consumer numbers, including landlines and mobile phones.

How do companies append databases?

Experian’s phone append software scans high-quality databases of contact information to find your customers’ phone data. The software cross-references your existing mailing and email addresses with data from the database. If there’s a matching address and a phone number is attached, the software adds the phone number to your contact.

Phone append

Q: What is phone append?

Phone append is the process of adding phone numbers to contact information by cross-referencing mailing address and email data with phone number data.

Phone number appending services add phone data to your contacts

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What is phone append?

As a business owner , you know how important it is to keep your contact lists up to date. Many modern businesses have name and email address data for their customers. Getting phone number information, however, can be more difficult.

Using phone append makes it easier to collect phone numbers to add to your existing customer lists. It works by running your existing contact lists through databases of contact information. The phone append software matches names, email addresses, and mailing addresses from the contact list you provide with phone data from the database.

Types of phone append

When you work with Experian, you can be sure you’re getting the best phone appending services.

Consumer phone append

Consumer phone append finds and adds personal phone numbers to your contacts. You can also use mobile phone append to see if your customers are using landlines or mobile phones. This makes it easier to use SMS marketing and follow telemarketing regulations.

Business phone append

Experian’s software can look through databases of office addresses and business email addresses to help complete your business contacts. This makes it easier to gather leads and stay in touch with important vendors.

Reverse phone append

If you already have phone information for contacts, you can reverse append phone number data to find emails and mailing addresses. Be sure to verify phone numbers before reverse appending for the most accurate results.

Better data means better business effectiveness and happier customers. Interested to learn how your business can leverage better quality data to boost the bottom line?

Three benefits of phone append

Improves customer experience

Being able to contact customers by phone makes it easier to stay in touch with them. You’ll be able to contact customers and ask for feedback, which can be used to directly improve the customer experience.

Opens communication

Most people spend a lot of time on their mobile phones. Having a verified phone number and knowing what type of phone it’s tied to lets you easily communicate with your customers.

Increases data quality

Having accurate information on a customer helps improve your data quality. Accurate, high-quality data gives you better results when you’re drawing insights on your customers’ habits, behaviors, or needs.

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Find phone numbers for your contacts

Ready to complete your contact lists by adding phone numbers? Phone appending service from Experian makes it easy to update your contact lists with phone numbers for better data quality and more complete contact information. Get in touch with our data quality experts and try phone appending today.

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