Pro Installer October 2017 - Issue 55 | Page 12

12 | OCTOBER 2017 News Read online at www.proinstaller.co.uk LETTER TO THE EDITOR Yale is going on TV! CAN YOU ACCURATELY CLEANSE YOUR DATA? This October sees the launch of a brand new advertising campaign with the Yale brand hit- ting TV screens nationwide. The advert, which will be aired throughout the month on Channel 4, Sky, and ITV, will showcase the benefits of the new Conexis® L1 Smart Door Lock. It will highlight how the Smart Living solution can add convenience to everyday lives as well as giving peace of mind that your home is secure. Paul Atkinson, Sales and Com- mercial Director for Yale, com- mented: “This is the first time in recent years that we have used TV as a platform to target UK home- owners, and we’re excited to see the Yale brand in living rooms across the country.” Backed by a robust online and social media campaign, this is Yale’s biggest ever media spend, helping to drive consumer demand during a key time for security sales when the nights start getting darker and burglaries increase. In the pursuit of new customers, many businesses in the industry are turning their hands to email marketing and direct mail. Investments are made in email creators and data lists with grand aims to target and engage with the industry’s top decision makers. www.yale.co.uk However, what many of HIGH PRAISE FOR MACHINERY FIRM Mighton Products recently launched its own brand range of machinery and has reached out to its customers for their reviews on the range. The move is part of its ongoing quest to make joinery production quicker, easier and more efficient for both the small or large-scale operator. Gateshead-based joinery specialist Claremont Join- ery purchased both the Mighton X-Cut™ and Scribe- It™ machines and was quick to praise the speed and accuracy of cut the machines gave. The company said: “We purchased the machines three months ago as we wanted to improve the ease and speed of pro- duction without compromising on accuracy, and I’m pleased to say there isn’t any aspect of the machinery we would change.” Taking advantage of a visit from the Mighton Mobile Demonstration Vehicle, Claremont was able to see the machines working before purchasing. The demonstrations give customers the prime opportu- nity for a live demo with a Mighton expert, seeing first-hand how to get the most out of a potential purchase. www.mightonproducts.com GLAZERITE ANNOUNCED AS G17 FINALISTS The Glazerite UK Group Ltd have been named G Awards final- ists with nominations in both the Fabricator of the Year and Unsung Hero categories. Director, Jason Thompson said: “We are delighted to have been shortlisted for this year’s awards and it is an honour to have got to this stage. We are especially pleased to be up for Fabricator of the Year as it gives all of our staff some well-deserved recognition for their hard work which has helped put us in the running. “Melanie Jacobs was nominated as our unsung hero as she has been the driving force behind the success of our customer services department at our head office in Wellingborough since becoming Sales Office manager in 2010. Her passion, drive and propensity to go above and beyond allow Melanie to effectively lead her team year on year. All of which she does whilst managing the symptoms of rare auto-immune condition Myasthenia Gravismake. She sets a fantastic example to all of us.” www.glazeritewindows.co.uk these companies seem to over- look is an effective campaign is only as good as its data. For the deluge of responses they expect to match their initial investment, businesses need to actively cleanse their data to ensure they are contacting the right people and getting the right results. In this current world of acquisitions, mergers and closures – especially in the fenestration industry, the issue of data decay has never been more significant. If businesses have purchased data or a one- off list of email addresses, they could be wasting their time contacting individuals who have changed jobs, retired, or even passed away and busi- nesses that could no longer be trading. Not to mention the potential damage to reputations with high bounce rates leaving busi- nesses looking unprofessional and resulting in potential black- listing from email providers, meaning the hard work and investment could all be in vein. Great data on the other hand which has been fastidiously fettled to ensure the most accu- rate information can transform an email campaign, producing high deliverability rates with low bounce rates and will help to drive customers and sales to the business. Companies who have felt the effects of bad data now rely on Insight Data for their industry-specific prospect data. They no longer need to worry about data cleansing or data decay thanks to our pioneering real-time data validated by a seven-stage verification process. In just one of those stages, our team of in-house researchers make 25,000 phone calls every month