Find the smoke shops to call, and the owner behind the counter.
Oxpium builds the list of tobacco, cigar and vape shops in your territory, finds the owner of each one, tells you when a shop opens a new location or starts hiring, and runs the campaign.
- 26,900tobacco, cigar and vape shops with paid employees in the US
- 139,000people working in those shops
- 93%don't have their owner in classic professional databases
- < 8 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
Every smoke shop in your territory, in one sentence.
Describe the target the way you'd tell a colleague: a metro area, cigar shops with a lounge, vape shops only, stores that are hiring. The agent searches public sources, job postings and professional databases, removes the duplicates and the closed shops, and hands you a list you can work.
- Reading the request
- Public sources · 914 shops in Greater Houston
- Cross-checking and de-duplicating
276 shops, sorted by number of reviews.
A territory
A city, a county or a radius around your warehouse: the agent covers the whole route and hands you one list, with no duplicates.
A kind of shop
Cigar shop, vape shop, smoke shop, or a counter in a convenience store: say which ones you sell to, and the agent sorts them in a column.
What they carry
A walk-in humidor, a cigar lounge, a vape bar, hookah supplies: the agent reads each shop's listing and website and keeps the ones that match.
Rating and reviews
A minimum rating and number of reviews, to start with the busiest shops in the area, sorted by how many customers wrote about them.
The owner's name, cell and the hours of each shop.
In an independent smoke shop, the owner buys, signs and often works the counter. Many shops have a bare website or none at all: the agent looks for the owner's name, a verified email and a cell, then adds the hours and what each shop carries, so your first call lands at the right time with the right pitch.
- Reading the request
- Looking for owners · 276 shops
- Verifying emails
- Looking for cell phones
241 owners found, 152 verified emails, 97 cell phones.
The owner
The owner of each shop, with a verified email and a cell when there is one. In most shops, they pick the suppliers and they sign.
An email, even with no site
When a shop has no website, the agent looks for an email in its listing and in public sources, and verifies it before adding it.
Opening hours
When each shop opens and closes, so you call in the quiet morning hours instead of during the after-work rush at the counter.
What's on the shelves
Cigars, vape, hookah, a lounge: one column per category, filled in from each shop's listing and website, so you pitch the right line.
Automations that watch the shops for you.
A new shop opens down the road, an owner adds a second location, a store starts hiring, reviews start mentioning that the card reader is down: those are the weeks when owners talk to new suppliers. Each automation reruns its search on schedule and adds what just changed to the top of the list.
- Public sources · shops in Greater Houston
- Compared with last week
- Added to the top of the list
Latest runs
- Mon, Oct 12+2
- Mon, Oct 5+3
- Mon, Sep 28+2
- Mon, Sep 21+1
2 new shops this week, added to the top of the list.
New shops
Every Monday, the agent reruns the search and adds the shops that weren't listed last week to the top of the list, with a badge.
Hiring
Every weekday morning, another automation flags the shops that just posted a job, from a weekend clerk to a store manager.
Reviews about checkout
Every month, the agent reads the new reviews and flags the shops where customers complain about cash only, card minimums or long lines.
Your own watch
Any watch you can write in one sentence, like owners announcing a second location: the agent reruns it and tells you what changed.
A campaign that calls before the after-work rush.
Smoke shops are quiet in the late morning and busy from mid-afternoon into the night, when the owner is behind the counter. Call between 10 am and noon, when they have a minute. Email from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, an agent step that writes every follow-up, and the campaign stops as soon as they reply.
Call the shop
The late-morning lull
Emails and calls go out between 10 am and noon, after opening and well before the after-work crowd lines up at the counter.
Calls from the browser
You call each shop straight from your browser. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized in the list, next to the shop.
Messages about their shop
Every email is built from the list's columns, and an agent step reads the shop's reviews or website to write a follow-up about it.
Stops on reply
As soon as an owner replies, the campaign stops for them. You take it from there, and no automatic follow-up goes out after that.
Frequently asked questions
Write “cigar shops in Georgia with a walk-in humidor”. The agent searches public sources and professional databases, reads each shop's listing and website, removes duplicates and closed shops, and hands you the list with the city, rating, reviews and phone of each one. It takes a few minutes.
Ask for the owner of each shop: the agent finds the name, looks for an email in public sources and verifies it, and adds a cell when there is one. For shops with no email, the phone is the best channel: add the hours so you call in the quiet late morning.
Tell the agent once: “every Monday, add the smoke and vape shops in Greater Houston that weren't listed last week”. The automation reruns the search, compares it with the week before, and puts the new shops at the top of your list with a “New” badge, while the owner is still choosing suppliers.
A call in the late morning, an email right after to leave a trace, a second call three days later, a last message. Emails go out from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, and the sequence stops as soon as an owner replies.
For 400 shops with their listing and website read, 150 verified emails and about a hundred cell phones, count around €40 of data on top of the subscription. An agency typically charges €1,000 to €2,000 for a comparable list, delivered once and never updated.See pricing
Yes. The agent groups locations by company, so you can keep the single-store owners, or only the ones with three locations or more. Add a column for the kind of shop too: a cigar lounge and a vape shop rarely buy the same thing.
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