Independent pet stores to stock my pet food
Independent pet stores with the owner and an approved stockist pitch.
What it does
Every month: independent pet stores and pet supply shops in your target cities, the best-rated first, with the owner from Apollo and a stockist pitch by xMap AI, approved by you, sent from Gmail.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Toronto and Montreal, find pet stores and pet supply stores in the area, keep only new ones, find the Owner and Store Manager with Apollo, write a summary of each with xMap AI, wait for approval, then send email in Gmail and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Pet owners trust their local pet store. Being on its shelf builds a loyal following.
Who it is for
Pet care & veterinary. Vet clinics, pet stores, groomers, pet food brands and animal shelters reaching pet owners and the places that serve them. Every use case for pet care & veterinary
Best use cases
- A pet food brand
- A pet treats startup
- A pet supplements brand
What each run gives you
- Approved emails from your Gmail
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: 9 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Target citiesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Independent pet storesxMap 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.
- 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.
- Write the stockist pitch with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Approve the pitchesLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
- Send them from my GmailApp · GmailEmail service by Google
- 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.
- 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.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
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