Find the hardware stores to call, once the contractors are gone.
Oxpium builds the list of hardware stores in your area, finds who decides at each one, tells you when one of them starts hiring or changes banners, and runs the campaign.
- 15,600hardware stores with paid employees in the US
- 175,000people working in hardware stores across the US
- 67%don't have their owner in classic professional databases
- < 8 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
Every hardware store in your area, in one sentence.
Describe the target the way you'd tell a colleague: a county, a rating, an independent store or one under a co-op banner, a store with a contractor desk. The agent searches business listings, job postings and professional databases, reads the websites, removes the duplicates, and hands you a list, not a page of results.
- Reading the request
- Public sources · 131 hardware stores, Central Ohio
- Filter · big-box locations removed
- Cross-checking and de-duplicating
54 hardware stores, sorted by number of reviews.
An area
A city, a county or a radius around an address. The agent covers the whole area, from Main Street stores to the edge of town, with no duplicates.
Independent or chain
The agent reads each store's website and listing, notes the banner it shows and separates owner-run stores from the big-box locations.
Services
Key cutting, paint matching, screen repair, tool rental, small engine repair: the agent keeps only the stores that offer what you're after.
A profile
One store or several, hiring right now, with or without a website, rated above 4.5: criteria you combine in the same sentence.
Everything you need to reach each store.
In an independent hardware store, the owner decides, and is often the one behind the counter at 7 am when the contractors come in. Under a co-op banner, the owner still picks a good share of the vendors; in a chain location, the store manager passes it up. The agent finds the right person for each row, verifies every email and notes what the store offers.
- Reading the request
- Reading websites · 54 stores
- Verifying emails
41 contact emails found and verified.
The website email
The agent reads each store's website, finds the contact or contractor-desk email published there and verifies it before adding it.
The owner or manager
The owner of an independent store or the manager of a chain location, with their email and cell phone when there is one.
The store's services
Key cutting, paint matching, rental, screen repair, delivery to job sites: a column lists what each store shows on its website or listing.
Counter hours
When the store opens and the day it's closed, so you call after the contractor rush and never on a Sunday when the owner is off.
Automations that run for you, and tell you who to call.
Once the list is built, Oxpium keeps going without you. Each automation reruns its search on schedule and adds what just changed to the top of the list: a job posting, a new store in the area, a banner that changed on the website, a new service. Those are your signals, and they show up on their own.
- Job postings · 9 new in Central Ohio
- Matching postings to stores
- Updating the list
Latest runs
- Today+2
- Yesterday0
- Sat, Oct 10+1
- Fri, Oct 9+1
2 stores posted a job since yesterday.
Hiring
Every morning, an automation adds the stores that just posted a job to the top of the list, from a paint desk associate to a yard driver.
New stores
Every Monday, another one compares the listings in your area with last week and adds the hardware stores that just showed up.
Banner changes
Every month, the agent rereads each store's website and flags the ones that show a new banner or drop the co-op they belonged to.
Your own watch
Any watch you can write in one sentence, like stores that start renting out equipment: the agent reruns it and tells you what changed.
A campaign that waits for the counter to clear.
From 7 to 9 am, the contractors come in for their supplies; on Saturdays, it's the homeowners. Call on a weekday, early in the afternoon. And prospect from fall to late winter: in spring, between the garden season and home projects, the store runs flat out. Email from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, an agent step that tailors every follow-up, and the campaign stops as soon as they reply.
Call the store
After the contractor rush
Emails and calls go out Tuesday to Thursday between 1 and 4 pm, when the contractors are on their job sites and the counter is quiet.
Calls from the browser
You call straight from your browser. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized right in the list, next to the store.
Tailored follow-ups
An agent step reads each store's website, reviews or job postings and writes the follow-up from what it finds there.
Stops on reply
As soon as an owner replies, the campaign stops for them. You take it from there, and the next follow-up never goes out.
Frequently asked questions
Write “independent hardware stores in Michigan rated 4.5 and above”. The agent searches business listings and professional databases, removes duplicates, closed stores and big-box locations, and hands you the list with each one's rating, number of reviews, phone and website. It takes a few minutes.
Add a “services listed” column, or a precise question: “does it rent out equipment?”. The agent reads each store's website and listing and answers row by row. When nothing is shown, the cell stays empty instead of being guessed.
Tell the agent once: “every month, reread each store's website and flag the ones whose banner changed”. A store that joins or leaves a co-op is rethinking its vendors, and it lands at the top of your list with a “Changed” badge.
An email that starts from a fact about the store (independent, contractor desk, a new hire), a call two days later in the early afternoon, a follow-up the agent writes from the website or reviews, a last message. Emails go out from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, and everything stops as soon as an owner replies.
For 500 stores with their website read, about 300 emails and a hundred cell phones, count around €65 of data on top of the subscription. An agency typically charges €1,500 to €2,500 for a comparable list, delivered once and never updated.See pricing
The agent reads each store's website and listing and notes the banner it shows, then checks how many locations the company has and how many people work there. A single-location store under its own name, or under a co-op banner, is nearly always owner-run and decides on site; a chain location answers to headquarters, and you're better off going after its central buying team.
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