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Maximizing the Benefits of Location Information Data: A Case Study

A good amount of location information with geospatial details is vital for developing and carrying out business plans

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Advantages of Location Information Data

Obtaining and integrating location information data into the day-to-day business operation policies and practices are the vital tasks in business and marketing. A good amount of data with geospatial details helps businesses to develop clarity for carrying out business plans effectively.

Because internet-based marketing has opened the entirely new avenues of marketing opportunities to the businesses and limitless searching/purchasing opportunities to the customers, it has become all the more important for businesses to identify who their current as well as potential customers are and where they live.

Moreover, location information data is equally important to understand the competitors in the market. New businesses cannot venture into the market without carefully studying how their competitors are distributed across a location. The same fact also applies in the case of business expansion of the well-established organizations.

There can be various reasons why businesses prefer to keep track of their customers and competitors. Three of the key reasons are:

  1. Improved customer engagement
  2. Customization of the products and services
  3. Location-specific knowledge about the market and competition

In the age of customer engagement — via social media, email newsletters, RSS feeds and loyalty schemes, etc. — leaving the customers unengaged means losing them to the competitors.

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Data Requirement Framework

It is not just the location information data and information of the customers that is important to deliver engaging samples, gifts, products, or offers at customers’ doorsteps. Instead, addresses of the business partners and associates (e.g. suppliers, distribution facilities, retail stores etc.). Information about competitors are equally crucial for leveraging overall functionality and competitive advantages.

In early 2013, one of our clients, a US-based producer of electronic devices, sent Grepsr a job request. The request was related to aggregating complete address information of about one million businesses. Presumably, a sizable number of these businesses were competitors.

The client had provided us the URLs of those businesses, along with the following instructions:

  1. Use the URLs to extract location information of the businesses
  2. Generate the physical address of the businesses in a standard mailing address format
  3. Verify the accuracy of the addresses by using the cross-references available on the Internet
  4. Segment the businesses according to states, cities, and areas
  5. Determine the ratings of the businesses, gathering data from the popular customer review websites
  6. Organize all the important data in a ready-to-use structure

Additionally, we were also asked to identify and tag the social media presence of these businesses. Merging both digital and physical addresses was a way of keeping the location-based database in its entirety which could then be used for multiple purposes.

Customer review and social media websites, for example, were important for determining the popularity and customer engagement levels of the specific companies in the specific location.

Location data, on the other hand, would be useful in identifying potential areas of expansion, proximity to competitors, marketing opportunities, and much more.

Job Well Done

Because location information data has a broad implication for businesses, and inaccurate address information is bound to have various harmful consequences, Grepsr aims to provide our service products in the easy-to-use standard formats supplemented by non-negotiable quality, consistency and reliability. We work with a clear notion that the address datasets we provide to our clients are pivotal in their business operations, extensions and coverage.

In this particular case too, we laid our attention on getting the most authentic data applying deep web crawling and comprehensive data extraction techniques. Once we had all the data we needed, we set out to cleanse and standardize the data by applying deduplication, verification processes, and more of our robust QA protocols.

Then we integrated the physical addresses of the businesses with the information about their corresponding social media platforms and their ratings.

We were able to complete the whole job, and deliver the results in the standard format within a week — much earlier than the timeframe provided to us by the client.

Later, a senior executive of the company sent an uplifting feedback. He wrote:

I am positively impressed by the speed and accuracy of your service. You have done a commendable job. I am sure we will have more projects to work together on in the days to come.

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