Packaging suppliers near my warehouse
Packaging suppliers near the warehouse, approved for quotes.
What it does
Every quarter: packaging companies and packaging supply stores within 30 km of your warehouse, the best-rated first, approved by the operations manager, then added to HubSpot for quotes.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Toronto, find packaging companies and packaging supply stores in the area, wait for approval, then create company in HubSpot and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Packaging costs grow with every order. A second supplier nearby keeps prices honest.
Who it is for
E-commerce & D2C brands. Online stores and direct-to-consumer brands choosing pickup points, stockists, pop-ups and cities, and keeping deliveries on time. Every use case for e-commerce & d2c
Best use cases
- An online store
- A subscription box company
- A food brand shipping online
What each run gives you
- New leads in HubSpot
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 45 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Around the warehouseWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Packaging suppliersxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Approve the shortlistLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Add them to HubSpotApp · HubSpotPowerful CRM that offers tools for sales, customer service, and marketing automation.
- Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
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- Where to run my next pop-up store: The malls with the most young adults nearby, for a pop-up.
- Independent shops to sign up as marketplace sellers: Independent shops graded as marketplace sellers, with the owner.
- A rival brand’s new physical stores: A rival brand’s new stores and what is around them.
- Gift shops and home stores to stock my products: Independent gift and home stores graded as stockists, in a sheet every week.