New shipping companies and forwarders in the port city
New shipping firms and forwarders, scored as marine insurance clients.
What it does
Every month: shipping companies, freight forwarders and customs brokers that opened in your port city, scored by xMap AI as clients for marine insurance, with the managing director from Apollo, into HubSpot.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Singapore, find shipping companies, freight forwarding services and customs brokers in the area, keep only new ones, score and rank them with xMap AI, keep those where fit score ≥ 55, find the Managing Director, CEO and Operations Manager with Apollo, then create company in HubSpot and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
A new shipping business needs cargo and liability cover from day one. Reaching it first wins the policy.
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 marine insurer
- An insurance broker
- A P&I club representative
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, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- The port cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- New maritime businessesxMap 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.
- Score each one with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Fit score ≥ 55Logic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
- Managing director 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.
- 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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- Ships waiting at anchor, for the berth planner: The queue at anchor every hour, by type, for the berth planner.
- Wind at the port: when to hold crane work: When to hold crane and mooring work, from the hourly wind.