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Cafe leads for sales teams

Build your own list of cafes, fill in missing emails and offer your products and services to other businesses to them in small, personal batches.

  • Public sources for cafes
  • Fields that fit the industry
  • No credits, no rented data
Contacts list in Riftjaw with company, phone, email, segment, campaigns and tags

Selling products and services to other businesses to cafes

Cafes are often owner operated with a small team, and the owner is usually behind the counter or the coffee machine. They buy coffee, milk, cakes and equipment regularly, and switching supplier depends on taste, service and a good personal relationship.

Sales teams often work from rented contact data, personal spreadsheets and a CRM that nobody fills in properly. A shared lead database gives everyone the same list, the same statuses and one place to see what happened with each company.

Every month you do not reach cafes with a clear offer, someone else does. A list you own lets you work the market in a steady rhythm instead of in bursts.

What sales teams run into with cafes

Each rep keeps a private list, so two people call the same company.

Work in one shared database with unlimited users on an account and see the status of every company before you reach out.

Per seat and per credit pricing makes it expensive to add people.

Riftjaw charges no credits and no per record fees, and every user on the account is included.

Cafes and restaurants blur together in scraped listings.

Use a field for business type and a saved filter so your cafe campaign only reaches cafes.

Owners reply by phone or in person, so email history is incomplete.

Add notes to the contact after every call or visit and update the status by hand.

A week of prospecting in Riftjaw

Monday: collect

Export a batch of cafes from public listings and import it. Duplicates are skipped.

Paste and collect in Riftjaw: a pasted web page turned into a table of companies
Paste and collect in Riftjaw: a pasted listing page turned into columns of companies.

Tuesday: fill in

Derive missing emails with hello@, info@, coffee@ and orders@ and tag the records that look like a fit.

Database in Riftjaw with active contacts, segment, lead file and source
Everything you imported in one database, with the lead file, source and date on every contact.

Wednesday: reach

Send one mail about your products and services to other businesses to the new segment, in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts
Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts.

Friday: follow up

Opens and clicks show up on each record. Set the ones who answered to Replied or Customer, so the follow-ups of the campaign skip them.

Contact panel in Riftjaw with pipeline status, tags, details and campaign history
A contact in Riftjaw with its pipeline status, tags, details and campaign history.

How to open a mail to cafes

Write one mail with placeholders and let the details change per record. These openings tend to work with cafes.

  • Offer a tasting or a sample, because cafe owners decide with their palate.
  • Talk about consistency and reliable delivery, since running out of beans or milk costs a morning of trade.
  • Point to something local, such as a nearby roaster or producer, which cafes like to promote.
Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button
A new campaign in Riftjaw, with segment, status and tag filters, a test send and a preview.

Fields worth recording for cafes

Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for cafes.

FieldWhy it helps
Company nameThe key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
WebsiteNeeded to derive an email when the export has none.
Coffee brandThe roaster they use tells a roaster or machine supplier where they stand.
Food offerCafes that serve food buy from bakeries and food wholesalers.
SeatsSize shows likely volume of coffee and cups.
MachineThe espresso machine they run matters for service and replacement offers.
Takeaway shareHigh takeaway volume means more cups, lids and packaging.

Questions people ask

Import a list of cafes from public listings, add fields for coffee brand and machine, and put the cafes not using your beans yet in their own segment. Then send a short campaign offering a tasting.

Yes. Add a note on the contact after each visit and change the status. Email history is logged automatically next to your notes.

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as hello@, info@, coffee@ and orders@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.

Build a database you own

Create your account, import your first list and see it turn into records you can work.

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