Diaspora grocers abroad for my export brand

Diaspora grocers abroad, approved for samples.

MediumMonthly

FMCG & distribution field salesFood and drinkDistribution

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What it does

Every quarter: Indian and Asian grocery stores in the big cities abroad, the best-rated first, with the owner from Apollo, as stockists for a food export brand.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in London and Toronto, find indian grocery stores and asian grocery stores in the area, find the Owner and Store Manager with Apollo, wait for approval, then create contact in HubSpot and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Food brands go abroad through the grocers their diaspora trusts. The best-rated are the first stockists.

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 food export brand
  • A spice company
  • A snacks exporter

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 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

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. Cities abroadWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
  3. Diaspora grocersxMap 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.
  4. Owner 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.
  5. Approve the stockistsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
  6. Add them to HubSpotApp · HubSpotPowerful CRM that offers tools for sales, customer service, and marketing automation.
  7. 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.

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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

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