Photo studios for product shoots
The best photo studios for product shoots, in a sheet.
What it does
Every quarter: the best-rated photography studios in your city, each with what they likely shoot best by xMap AI, in a sheet for the content team booking product shoots.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in New York, find photography studios and photographers in the area, write a summary of each with xMap AI, sort them by rating and keep the top 25, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Good product photos sell. A current list of well-rated studios makes booking shoots quick.
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’s content team
- A marketplace seller
- A marketing agency
What each run gives you
- A Google Sheet
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 medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Photo studiosxMap 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.
- Describe each studio with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 25 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Update the studios sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
- 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
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- 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.
- 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.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
More for E-commerce & D2C brands
- Pickup point partners near where people live: Shops near the most people, scored as parcel pickup partners.
- Independent beauty boutiques to stock my brand: Independent boutiques with their owner and an approved wholesale pitch.
- 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.