Top salons to send product samples to
Top salons offered free samples, approved by you.
What it does
Every month: the best-rated hair and nail salons in your city, the new ones only, with an offer of free samples by xMap AI, approved by you, sent from Gmail.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Sydney, find hair salons, nail salons and beauty salons in the area, keep only new ones, write a summary of each with xMap AI, wait for approval, then send email in Gmail and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Stylists recommend what they trust. Samples in the best salons create word of mouth.
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
- A haircare brand
- A nail polish brand
- A grooming brand
What each run gives you
- Approved emails from your Gmail
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 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.
- Top salonsxMap 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.
- Only new onesLogic · Only newLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
- Write the sample offer with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Approve the offersLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Send them from my GmailApp · GmailEmail service by Google
- 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.