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My previous background was a sales and marketing consultant for basically all kinds of businesses for over 10 years. I probably worked with over a 100 clients and NOT ONE of them had a clean CRM! Yes, salespeople tended to be the leaders in inputting bad data (if at all), it's the leaders who are responsible for all of those points you mentioned. There are sooooo many great uses for a CRM full of clean data and this could even lead to increased sales. Yes, it's can be a tedious task to do a clean up manually but there are lots of tools out there can help. Become informed and choose what's best for your company.