Sales and prospecting
Finding the businesses to sell to, scoring them and reaching the right people at the right time.
From a business on the map to the person to callA list of businesses is not a list of people. How to find the owner or buyer at each company with your own Apollo account, and what to do when nobody matches.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readHiring signals: turning job postings near you into sales leadsA company hiring for a role often needs what you sell. How to find local companies posting jobs, read each posting for the real need, and reach them before others do.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readHow to build a local prospect list that stays freshA list of local businesses goes stale as places open, close and change hands. How to build one once and keep it current every week without buying another list.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readHow to get a list of new leads in your inbox every morningSet up an AI employee that searches your area before you wake, keeps only businesses it has not sent you before, ranks them and emails a short list with a map.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readHow to split a city fairly between your sales repsFair territories give each rep about the same number of accounts, close together. How to share a city's businesses between reps by area, and keep it fair as the list grows.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readOutreach that waits for your approval before anything is sentHow the Outreach block writes a first message and up to two follow-ups to each lead, holds each first message for your OK and stops by itself when they reply.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 6 min readScoring local businesses with AI: what to tell itA fit score is only as good as the instructions behind it. What to write so xMap LLM scores local businesses the way your best salesperson would.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 5 min readSelling to restaurants: how to find them and when to approachRestaurants buy at a few clear moments: before opening, when hiring a chef, when ratings slip. How to find the right ones and reach the owner at the right time.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 6 min readWhy newly opened businesses are often the best leadsA business in its first months is choosing suppliers, software and services for the first time. Why that makes it a strong lead, and how to reach it in its first weeks.Sales and prospecting · 2 November 2026 · 5 min read
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