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So….Why Not Every Door Direct Mail?

Several years ago the Postal Service asked the mailing community to help them be more efficient by removing “bad data” from our lists. They said that up to 10% of mail was undeliverable as addressed or UAA. This made sense for everyone- and most of the Direct Marketing industry embraced the practice. We cleaned up [...]

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Under the Hood of Compact’s List Hygiene Processes

Ever felt like the data you are buying from some vendors performs like a vehicle made of lead at a drag race? Sometimes we do too, that is why we go the extra mile to ensure our Resident, Consumer and Auto direct marketing lists are the cleanest they possibly can be before you get to [...]

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Sharpening our Lightsaber

Compact prides itself on using cutting edge technology to deliver mailing lists to the direct mail community 24 hours a day. To that end, we are sharpening the tip of the Lightsaber once again. Over the next couple of weeks we are doubling the capacity of our Internet connection in to our in-house data center [...]

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Resident, Consumer and Business List Application Developers, Through the Looking Glass

You don’t know us, but we know you. We’ve heard your questions, your suggestions; we’ve even solicited your input on occasion. Behind every great application at Compact is a team of hard-working developers dedicated to improving your experience every day.
Our job, despite the image of a group of developers sitting in a dark [...]

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What you see isn’t always what it seems…

Recently we had a client of one of our customers call wanting to claim the $1,000 prize they had just won on our Residentlist.com mapping website. You can imagine my dismay when I heard this, since we have specific places on our site that we reserve for advertising purposes and our Residentlist.com mapping site is [...]

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All in the house….

With the ever changing array of application platforms available for the internet, it is nice to have an in-house staff that is able to adapt to these changes. Compact has always taken pride in being a leader in the technology arena by bring our customers powerful web-based applications for resident, consumer and business list ordering.
One [...]

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I feel the need…the need for speed.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, our new servers have arrived. From a technology guy’s perspective let me just say, “Impressive”! We ran the servers through their paces and there were nothing but smiles on everyone’s faces. Now that the new servers are loaded on the rack and serving up data in [...]

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Tis the Season…

Yes folks we are approaching the end of another year here at Compact. With the changing of the year we too will be making changes on our Consumer List and Business List sites. We will be adding new servers and streamlining code to better serve your needs. As with all things, we [...]

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With every season…change, change

In the coming months you will be seeing a lot of changes here at Compact. You may have already noticed the changes to our main portal site www.compactlists.com. Soon, all of our sites will be modified to fit with this theme making it easier to navigate from one list ordering site to another, such [...]

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Drive Time Radius

Compact’s revolutionary drive time radius technology can save you hundreds of dollars on your mailing campaigns by reducing the amount of improperly mailed pieces because of old radius technologies that would allow you to send mail pieces to customers well beyond your targeted mailing area. With our state-of-the-art drive time radius feature you can now [...]

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