The distributors to call, branch by branch.
Oxpium builds the list of wholesalers and distributors in your area, finds the person who picks the suppliers, tells you when one of them opens a branch or starts hiring, and runs the campaign.
- 521,000merchant wholesaler locations in the US
- 5.6Mpeople work for them
- 5%only have their owner or CEO in classic professional databases
- < 8 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
The distributors in your trade, independent or part of a group.
A three-branch lumber yard, an industrial supply house and a plumbing wholesaler don't buy the same things, or the same way. Tell the agent the trade, the area and the size: it searches public sources, professional databases, business listings and distributor websites, and removes the duplicates.
- Reading the request
- Public sources · lumber and building material dealers, Ohio
- Professional databases · 10 to 150 employees
- Reading websites · independents only
- Cross-checking and de-duplicating
158 independent distributors with 10 to 150 employees.
A trade
Building materials, lumber, plumbing and HVAC, electrical, industrial MRO, foodservice: the agent reads each site and keeps the right trade.
A real headcount
A headcount measured in professional databases, 10 to 150 employees for example, to reach the regional independent rather than the national chain.
A counter
Branches open to contractors, with their rating, reviews and hours: the ones that open at 6:30 am live on their contractors' schedule.
A profile
Independent or in a buying group, hiring sales reps, already selling online: criteria you combine in one sentence, like you'd tell a colleague.
The person who picks suppliers, and what the distributor already sells.
At a regional distributor, the owner often still runs purchasing; past a few branches, a purchasing manager adds new lines and the CFO watches credit. The agent finds the right person by job title, reads the branches, product lines and online ordering off the website, and verifies every email before it's added.
- Reading the request
- Looking for decision makers · 158 distributors
- Verifying emails
- Looking for cell phones
152 decision makers found, 66 of them purchasing managers, 131 verified emails, 54 cell phones.
The buyer
The purchasing manager, or the owner at smaller distributors, with their email and cell when there is one: the person who picks suppliers.
The branch network
The number of branches and yards, read from the website, and the product lines each one carries: enough to see if your line fits.
Independent or in a group
The agent reads the website and notes whether the distributor shows a buying group membership: that changes where a new line gets approved.
Online ordering
Contractor portal, online ordering, prices shown: the agent reads the website and tells you where each distributor stands, cell by cell.
Automations that watch distributors grow, and the ones that struggle.
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 new branch, a sales or warehouse posting, reviews complaining about the wait, online ordering going live. Those are your signals, and they show up on their own.
- Websites and business listings · 158 distributors
- Compared with last week
- Updating the list
Latest runs
- Mon, Oct 12+2
- Mon, Oct 5+1
- Mon, Sep 280
- Mon, Sep 21+2
2 distributors are opening a branch this week.
New branches
Every Monday, the agent rereads websites and business listings and flags the distributors on your list opening a new branch or yard.
Hiring
Every morning, another one flags the distributors posting a sales rep, warehouse, CDL driver or branch manager opening, with a “Hiring” badge.
Slipping reviews
Every month, the branches whose recent reviews complain about will-call waits or late deliveries move to the top of the list.
Your own watch
Any watch you can write in one sentence, like distributors that turn on online ordering: the agent reruns it every week and flags what changed.
A campaign that speaks counters, branches and credit lines.
From 6 to 8 am, the counter is full of contractors and nobody will take your call. The campaign writes and calls mid-morning or early afternoon, from your own mailbox and your browser. In spring, building supply is chasing the building season: the bigger conversations land better in fall and winter.
Subject Contractor orders at distributor
Each variable is a column of your list, filled in by the agent.
After the morning rush
Emails and calls go out Tuesday to Thursday between 9:30 and 11:30 am, once the early contractors have loaded up and left for the jobsite.
Calls from the browser
You call from your browser. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized right in the list, next to the distributor.
Messages that name the business
Every email is built from the list's columns, and an agent step rereads the distributor's website to write the follow-up from what it sells.
Stops on reply
As soon as a distributor replies, the campaign stops for them. You take it from there, and the next follow-up never goes out.
Frequently asked questions
Write “independent building material distributors in Ohio with 10 to 150 employees”. The agent searches public sources, measures headcount in professional databases, reads each website to leave out the branches of national chains, and removes duplicates. You get the list with each distributor's headquarters, headcount, phone and website in a few minutes.
Ask the agent to read each distributor's website: most show their group on the homepage or in the footer. It fills a column with “Member” or “Independent”, and says “Not found” when the site doesn't say.
Tell the agent once: “every Monday, flag the distributors on my list opening a branch or a yard”. It rereads their websites and business listings, compares with the week before, and openings land at the top of your list with a “New branch” badge and the city.
An email mid-morning, once the counter has cleared, a call two days later, an agent step that rereads the distributor's website to talk about what it sells, then a follow-up in the same thread. Emails leave from your own mailbox, calls from your browser are recorded, transcribed and summarized, and the sequence stops as soon as a distributor replies.
For 400 distributors with their website read, 330 verified decision-maker emails and about 130 cell phones, count around €85 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
It depends on what you sell. New product lines and business software are decided at headquarters; freight, staffing, cleaning or forklift service are often handled at the branch. The agent can give you one row per branch, with its city, phone and branch manager when it finds one.
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