Shops to place my drinks coolers in
Shops scored for a branded drinks cooler, approved by trade marketing.
What it does
Every quarter: well-rated convenience stores, petrol station shops and snack bars near busy spots, scored by xMap AI for a branded drinks cooler, approved by the trade marketing manager.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Karachi, find convenience stores, gas stations and snack bars in the area, score and rank them with xMap AI, keep those where fit score ≥ 65, wait for approval, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A cooler in the right shop sells for years. Putting them where people stop is what pays.
Who it is for
FMCG & distribution field sales. Distributors and consumer brands whose reps cover outlets: new shops, routes, channels and stock. Every use case for fmcg & distribution
Best use cases
- A soft drinks bottler
- An energy drink brand
- An ice cream company
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: 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.
- Shops that sell cold drinksxMap 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.
- Score each shop for a cooler with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Fit score ≥ 65Logic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
- Approve the cooler placementsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Add them to the cooler planApp · 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.
- How to find new businesses in a city every morning: A daily list of newly listed businesses of a type, ranked, in your inbox.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
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