Skip Tracing

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Permalink Reply by Steve Taylor on August 15, 2008 at 1:15pm

There is no one program. You need to evaluate each program and weigh them on their on merits. The databases are really great, if you know what you are reading. Many people do not understand what they are reading and if they do, they do not take the time to verify the information.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Foulk on August 15, 2008 at 1:41pm

Steve I agree. Like I said before we (I work for a skip trace Vendor) train for free and we find that at the agency level, to be allowed to train the users is pretty hard because they do not want them to come off the phones for more than 15-20 minutes. The customers who allow us to train on a regular bases often find better results because their collectors understand what the system is saying.

Bill, I also agree with you. There are a lot of times I see data come in all over the place such as half of the file has the name order different than the other half. As a prior IT person the more you can send information in a uniform manner the better the data will perform.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Taylor on August 15, 2008 at 1:53pm

Eric,
You can offer to do what I do. Offer to train on the weekends so it does not take anyone off the phones. Granted many companies do not want to pay the overtime, but if they would consider the fact with the proper training they will make back their investment probably within a week, locating more skips.

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Permalink Reply by Claude Joyal on September 10, 2008 at 6:46pm

I would like to know also.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Prunyi on November 3, 2008 at 4:46pm

One solution that offers a free trial is Millennium's Terrappend. You can call 1-888-252-5689 or email tprunyi@mmtel.com to set the free trial up.

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Permalink Reply by ken winfield on June 16, 2009 at 11:28pm

simple software have built in skip tools.

www.simplesoftwarecorp.com

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth on June 22, 2009 at 4:28pm

Hi Angel,
XML Web services are another way to go. The company I work for, CDYNE, provides Web services that your IT department codes (easily) into your system, no matter what system you use. The services automatically access real-time demographic data from public and private sources, verify phone numbers and addresses, and dial debtors. You can also perform reverse lookups with a 411 service or run people against the SSA Death Index to weed out deceased persons/identity theft. The services are offered a la carte and you only pay for what you use - it's very inexpensive and easy to implement and works directly with your database instantaneously (and securely) so you don't have to worry about uploading or waiting for online services to process things. Very good for queue management. No contracts or sign-up fees or anything and free testing. Just another option if you don't want to invest in software packages.

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Permalink Reply by ken winfield on July 9, 2009 at 12:37pm

we have skip tracing built inside of our software. www.simplesoftwarecorp.com

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Permalink Reply by Wendy P Marcisofsky on January 8, 2010 at 1:57pm

looking for a good pre-placement account scrub to locate property, nearby info, .....before an account is sent to a collector...don't want to pay "per hit"....want some kind of flat rate subscription service....

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Permalink Reply by Tina L. Berry on January 11, 2010 at 2:33pm

We have a flat rate subscription available with our Link to America skip tracing database.

www.merlindata.com

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