Follow up a trade show list

Trade show contacts scored and followed up from your Gmail.

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What it does

After a trade show: the badge scans added to your sheet are found on the map, sized with Apollo, scored by xMap AI, and each gets a follow-up email drafted, approved by you, sent from your Gmail.

In one sentence: When a Google Sheet gets new rows, look each one up on online maps, add their company details from Apollo, score and rank them with xMap AI, 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

Most trade show leads go cold in a week. Scored, drafted follow-ups go out while they remember you.

Who it is for

B2B sales & business development. Sales teams, SDRs and founders who need a steady list of the right businesses to call, with the person to ask for. Every use case for b2b sales

Best use cases

  • A B2B company after a trade show
  • An events team
  • A startup at a conference

What each run gives you

  • Emails from your Gmail

The time it saves

Whenever a row is added to your sheet or table. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. New row in the trade show sheetTrigger · New rowsStarts the flow when new rows appear in a Google Sheet or in a table in My data.
  2. Find each companyxMap data · Map business scanFinds businesses on online maps live: name, category, rating, address, phone, website and whether it is open.
  3. Company size 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.
  4. Score each lead with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
  5. Draft the follow-up with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
  6. Approve the emailsLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
  7. Send from my GmailApp · GmailEmail service by Google
  8. 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

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