Laura Hayward

Head of Data Operations

Deep experience spotting good data vs bad - sets the standards, checks, and controls teams trust.

  • Data standards
  • Quality checks
  • Governance

Background

Laura is an experienced HubSpot and Salesforce CRM administrator, HubSpot-certified in Inbound Marketing, Inbound Sales, Sales Hub Software, and Email Marketing. She sets the data standards, quality checks, and governance controls behind DataFixr.

  • Experienced HubSpot and Salesforce CRM administrator
  • HubSpot certified: Inbound Marketing, Inbound Sales, Sales Hub Software, Email Marketing
  • Newcastle University

What Laura Hayward writes about

Laura Hayward writes the DataFixr guides covering data standards, quality checks, governance. They come out of that operating experience rather than from keyword research.

  • Cognism Alternative
  • Uk B2b Data
  • Data Enrichment
  • Revenue Operations
  • Crm Data Cleansing
  • Crm Hygiene
  • Data Cleaning
  • Lead Data

Where a guide covers a regulated area such as TPS screening or lawful basis for outreach, it describes the operational process and points to the primary source. It is not legal advice.

Guides by Laura Hayward

10 published guides.

4 Jun 2026 9 min read

Cognism Alternatives: Sales Intelligence and the UK Data Operations Layer

UK teams comparing sales intelligence platforms are often solving one of two problems: getting contact coverage, or making the records they already have usable. Those sit in different layers of the stack.

Cognism AlternativeUk B2b DataData Enrichment
1 Jun 2026 10 min read

CRM Data Cleansing: A Practical Guide for Sales and RevOps Teams

CRM data cleansing is the process of fixing duplicates, invalid fields, inconsistent company names, bad emails, stale records, and messy imports before they damage sales workflows.

Crm Data CleansingCrm HygieneData Cleaning
23 May 2026 9 min read

How to Automatically Clean and Format Lead Data Before CRM Import

How to design a pre-import cleaning pipeline that runs on every list from every source - and where to draw the line between machine decisions and human ones.

Lead DataCrm HygieneData Cleaning
28 Apr 2026 12 min read

Best CSV Cleaning Tools for Sales and RevOps Teams

A CSV cleaning tool should do more than tidy spreadsheets. For sales and RevOps teams, the right tool should remove duplicates, standardise fields, validate contact data, and prepare records for CRM or outbound workflows.

Csv WorkflowsData CleaningCrm Hygiene
24 Apr 2026 10 min read

How to Clean a CSV File Before Uploading It to HubSpot

Before you upload a CSV into HubSpot, clean it properly. A messy import can create duplicates, overwrite good data, break reporting, and leave reps working from records they do not trust.

Csv WorkflowsCrm HygieneData Cleaning
16 Apr 2026 10 min read

Sales Data Quality: What It Is, How to Measure It, and How to Improve It

A practical guide to measuring and improving sales data quality - so your team can trust the records they use, the automations they run, and the reports they make decisions from.

Data QualityRevenue OperationsCrm Hygiene

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