Bus companies for school transport contracts
Bus companies approved for a school transport tender.
What it does
Every year: bus and coach companies in your city, the best-rated first, with the operations manager from Apollo, approved by the transport officer, for school transport.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in New York, find bus companies and bus charters in the area, find the Operations Manager, Owner and Fleet Manager with Apollo, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Safe school buses start with the right operators. The tender list is ready.
Who it is for
Education & training. Schools, nurseries, universities and training companies planning campuses, enrolment and partners. Every use case for education & training
Best use cases
- A school group
- A school district
- A transport authority
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 90 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 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.
- Bus companiesxMap 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.
- Operations manager from ApolloYour data · ApolloThe people to talk to at each company, and the company’s details, from your own Apollo account (apollo.io): decision makers by job title with their LinkedIn and work email; or the company’s size, industry, revenue and LinkedIn page; or a person from their email.
- Approve the operatorsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Add them to the tender listApp · 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
- 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.
- How to build a B2B lead list from the map: Every business of a type in your territory, with contacts, scored, in a sheet or CRM.
- How to find the decision maker at each new business: Places from the map, people from your Apollo account, in one flow.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
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