Trucking companies near the port for drayage
Trucking companies near the port, for container drayage.
What it does
Every quarter: trucking and logistics companies within 20 km of the port, the best-rated first, with the operations manager from Apollo and a partnership note by xMap AI, into HubSpot.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Houston, find trucking companies and logistics services in the area, find the Operations Manager, Dispatch Manager and Owner with Apollo, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then create contact in HubSpot and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Moving containers from the port needs reliable trucks. A rated list with the operations manager starts partnerships.
Who it is for
Ports, shipping & maritime. Port operators, ship agents, marine suppliers, terminals and marinas following vessels, weather and the business around the water. Every use case for ports & shipping
Best use cases
- A freight forwarder
- A shipping line
- A port logistics company
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 60 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.
- Around the portWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Trucking 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.
- Write a partnership note with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Add them to HubSpotApp · HubSpotPowerful CRM that offers tools for sales, customer service, and marketing automation.
- 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.
- Write to people with Outreach: A first message and follow-ups to each result, approved first, stopping when they reply.
- 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.
- Geofencing: A virtual boundary that triggers something when an item enters or leaves it.
- AIS (ship tracking): Radio messages ships send with their identity, position and course.
- 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.
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