New apartment blocks for door-to-door internet sales

What it does

Every Monday: apartment buildings that opened in your city in the last year, only the new ones, with the people living within 500 m of each, the 30 biggest first, saved to the door-to-door team’s sheet, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Mondays at 08:00, in Bangkok, find apartment buildings, apartment complexes and condominium complexes in the area, keep only new ones, count who lives around, sort them by population and keep the top 30, then add row in Google Sheets, email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

New residents choose an internet provider in their first weeks. This flow sends the door-to-door team to the new buildings first, the biggest ones at the top.

Who it is for

Telecom & connectivity. Mobile operators, internet providers and phone retailers planning shops, dealers and network capacity. Every use case for telecom

Best use cases

• A home internet provider
• A mobile operator selling home broadband
• A pay TV company

What each run gives you

• Rows in the door-to-door sheet
• An email and a map of the new buildings

The time it saves

Mondays at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 4 times a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every MondayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. New apartment buildingsxMap 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. Only new onesLogic · Only newLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.
5. Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
6. Best 30 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
7. Add them to the door-to-door sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
8. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
9. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

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.