Many companies, Bredemarket included, have benefited from the efforts of evangelists. But don’t take those efforts for granted.
I recently said good-bye to a former Bredemarket evangelist who became silent and indifferent over time. I positively thanked them for their past support, carefully avoiding the topic of why and how that support ended.
(Maybe I should have asked, but I doubt I would have received an answer.)
And I remain thankful for the Bredemarket evangelists who are still there.
Sales involves people who say no…usually many more than the people who say yes.
To keep moving forward in business (and elsewhere) and to survive the rejections, you have to distance yourself from the naysayers and focus on those who say yes.
I previously wrote about how clean data is the new oxygen (stealing a phrase from someone else), but sometimes more data is better. Sometimes.
Let me use the fingerprint example. If you have a single fingerprint from one person, you have data that you can use to match against a person’s tenprint record.
Grok.
But if you have two fingerprints, then you have twice as much data for the match. And Mister Math tells us that ten fingerprints yields much more data.
Now there are cases where you don’t have all ten search prints. Perhaps you’re taking latent prints from a crime scene and the suspect didn’t carefully leave all ten prints. Or you’re using contactless fingerprint capture and for some reason didn’t get the full tenprint record. But if you can get all ten fingerprints for search, then your match accuracy increases.
But is an abundance of data better?
Only if it’s clean.
If finger numbers are misclassified, or if fingerprints from multiple people are mixed in the same individual record, or if the minutiae are not marked correctly, then the dirty data messes up your process.
Which is why the quality of data in a fingerprint database is important.
And if you need to talk about your fingerprint product’s quality assurance measures, Bredemarket can help. Book a free meeting with me to discuss your needs.
2025 has been a year of declutterring and focusing.
The declutterring is the hardest. I may still love that long sleeve shirt with holes in the right elbow. (Why always the right elbow? I’m left handed.) But it’s no longer good for me, and I should have gotten rid of it years ago.
Whether it’s a former friend—a great person who went silent and indifferent—or a newsletter from a company that rejected my 2023 job application and only contacted me afterwards because GDPR required it—the time has come to simplify and focus.
Now just a few hundred LinkedIn newsletters and email subscriptions to go.
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