What is data hygiene?
Data hygiene is the ongoing process of maintaining clean, accurate, and complete data in your CRM and databases. Unlike one-time data cleaning, hygiene is repeated — it includes scoring data quality, enriching missing fields, removing duplicates, and fixing formatting issues every time new data comes in, not after it has caused damage.
How often should CRM data be cleaned?
Regularly — ideally with every import. Industry estimates put CRM data decay at roughly a quarter per year as people change jobs, companies rebrand, and contact information goes stale. Quarterly or annual cleanups leave months of degraded data in between. With ListPlus, you re-run the same checks and enrichment on every list, so cleanup becomes a routine instead of a project.
What's the difference between data cleaning and data hygiene?
Data cleaning is a one-time project: you find errors, fix them, and move on. Data hygiene is the ongoing discipline of preventing errors from accumulating. Think of it like brushing your teeth (hygiene) vs. going to the dentist for a deep cleaning. ListPlus handles both — but the real value is in making the hygiene routine fast enough to repeat.
How does data hygiene work in ListPlus?
ListPlus runs 100+ quality checks on every record: email validation, phone format normalization, name standardization, duplicate detection, and more. Each record gets a quality score (0-10). When issues are found, quick fixes resolve formatting problems and enrichment fills missing fields through multiple data providers. When you are done, you sync the clean data back to your CRM.
Which CRMs does ListPlus integrate with?
On Premium, ListPlus syncs two-way with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Notion via Pipedream (OAuth). Pro includes Google Sheets, Airtable and Lemlist. You can also import and export via CSV or Excel on every plan, or use the AI Agent API and MCP server for custom integrations with any system.
How does ListPlus compare to data quality tools like ZoomInfo?
ZoomInfo is primarily a contact database. ListPlus is a data quality tool that works with any data source: 100+ quality checks, enrichment through multiple providers, deduplication, and two-way sync — with a free plan and Pro from $55/mo. Your data stays EU-hosted and exports at any time, so there is no vendor lock-in.