# What can a system carry in a retail and craft business?

Which companies to write to, and what to say to each one. A maker selling to brands has more good fits than time to research them, and one wrong detail costs a relationship. A growth system researches each company, drafts the first email in the retailer’s voice, and sends only after the owner has read the day’s queue.

Kicker: A brand reads a first email for one thing: whether you know what it makes.

## How it sounds from inside

- There are more brands that might fit than anyone has hours to research properly.
- One email with a wrong detail about what a brand makes costs more than the reply it would have earned.
- Selling to a home market and selling abroad take different information, and mixing them up wastes the first message.
- A reply changes everything, and the moment someone answers, the account needs to move straight to a person.

## Growth systems

The risk sits in the two decisions before a first email goes out: which companies fit, and what to say to each one. That is what a growth system carries: every brand researched and scored against the retailer’s own criteria, a product matched to what the brand makes, and a first email that has to pass a check on the retailer’s voice before it can be queued. Only a plain, rule-bound sender is allowed to put an email in front of a company.

Boundary: Nothing goes out in the company’s name without clearing the line the company draws: a person’s approval, a check on its voice, or a daily window to read the queue and pull anything.

[What a growth system is built from](https://octyn.co/systems/growth)

## Retail and craft, as built.

- [Land brand deals from a short list of the right companies.](https://octyn.co/casestudies/craft-retail-brand-sales/demo) (An independent craft retailer · brand sales, Running): Each company is researched and gets a drafted first email; a separate sender is the only part allowed to send.

### The system behind it

- **Find**: Brands that fit the retailer’s criteria, from sources that show what they make and sell.
- **Research**: Each brand’s site is read, scored against the criteria and placed in its market by rule.
- **Match**: A product from the catalogue is matched to what the brand makes, and the right person found.
- **Draft**: The first email is drafted and must pass a check on the retailer’s voice before it can be queued.
- **Send**: A plain sender with no model in it sends what is due, within daily and per-inbox limits.

Boundary (a rule, not a model): A plain sender with no model in it is the only part allowed to send, within daily and per-inbox limits, and only after the owner’s daily window to read the queue and pull anything.

## What we would map first

- **Which brands fit**: Brands that match the retailer’s own criteria, found from sources that show what they actually make and sell.
- **What to say to each one**: A product from the catalogue matched to what the brand makes, and the right person to write to.
- **What a person checks**: The queue a person reads each day before anything goes out, and can pull from at any time.
- **What happens after a reply**: The moment a company answers, where the account goes next and who owns the conversation.

## Before you commission one in retail and craft.

- **Who reads the queue before it sends?**: The retailer, once a day. Nothing goes out during the window it takes to read the day’s queue and pull anything.
- **What happens once a brand replies?**: Replies go straight to a person. The moment anyone at a company answers, the account belongs to that conversation and comes out of the outreach queue.
- **Can it write differently to companies at home and abroad?**: Yes. Which market a company belongs to is decided by rule, from signals like currency, phone prefix and domain, so the two get separate volumes and their own send windows.

## Related

- [Growth systems](https://octyn.co/systems/growth)
- [Land brand deals from a short list of the right companies.](https://octyn.co/casestudies/craft-retail-brand-sales/demo)
- [The Consult](https://octyn.co/consult)

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