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Wholesale food distributor doubles revenue with outreach and reorder agents

high specificsAdded 2026-10-14
Business
Wholesale food distributor (previously ran on Excel, calls and texts)
Task
Scrape local businesses from Google Maps by ZIP, write segmented cold emails, verify emails, send campaigns; flag inventory reorders from rules and sales history
Result
In 4 months monthly revenue went from about $22K to $45K; leads contacted from about 120 to 1,500+; new customers from 3–4 to 12–15 a month
Tools
  • Google Maps scraping
  • Apollo
  • Apify
  • Million Verifier
  • Aerosend
  • Smartlead
Setup
  1. Chain of simple agents
  2. reorders use rules plus sales velocity
  3. a human approves purchases
Source
reddit.com ↗
Specifics rating
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Results as reported by the source; not independently verified.

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