Built for ecommerce founders

Automate wholesale outreach.
Scale B2B without a team.

Reach hundreds of retail buyers, distributors, and partners every month without manual email grunt work. Set up sequences once, let automation handle the rest.

Set and forget sequences
Smart buyer targeting
Automatic follow-ups

350+

Ecommerce brands automating prospecting

12hrs

Saved per week on outreach

5x

More buyers contacted per month

41%

Average email open rate

Why ecommerce founders need prospecting automation

Manual wholesale outreach doesn't scale when you're running the entire business.

You're already wearing ten hats

As an ecommerce founder, you're managing inventory, fulfilling orders, handling customer service, running ads, creating content, negotiating with suppliers, and somehow finding time to build the actual business. Spending 10 hours per week manually prospecting wholesale buyers is unsustainable.

Beeving automates the entire prospecting workflow. Upload a buyer list, set up your sequence, and the platform handles sending, timing, personalization, and follow-ups. You check in once per day to respond to replies. Your wholesale pipeline grows while you focus on operations.

Consistency is impossible manually

You have a great week and email 30 buyers. Then you get slammed with a product launch, customer issues, or inventory problems, and prospecting falls off completely. Two weeks later, you realize you haven't contacted anyone. Your wholesale pipeline is feast or famine because manual outreach depends on having time.

Automated sequences run consistently regardless of how busy you are. Buyers get contacted on schedule, follow-ups go out at optimal intervals, and your pipeline stays full even during your chaotic weeks. Consistency builds a B2B channel. Automation enables consistency.

Hiring for B2B is a chicken-and-egg problem

You can't hire a wholesale sales rep until you prove the channel works, but you can't prove the channel works without systematic prospecting. Most ecommerce founders stay stuck in this loop, never building meaningful B2B revenue because they can't justify the headcount investment yet.

Prospecting automation breaks the cycle. For $79/month, you get the output of a part-time sales development rep. Validate that wholesale works for your brand, build case studies, understand your pitch, refine your offer. Then hire a rep to scale what's already proven. Data first, headcount second.

You forget who you contacted and when

Manual prospecting means tracking everything in spreadsheets: who you emailed, when you emailed them, what you said, when to follow up. Half the time you forget to check the spreadsheet. You accidentally email someone twice or never follow up at all. It's messy, error-prone, and inefficient.

Beeving tracks every interaction automatically. You can see exactly where each buyer is in your sequence, what emails they've received, whether they've opened or clicked, and when the next touchpoint goes out. No spreadsheets, no confusion, no duplicate emails. Just clean, organized prospecting at scale.

Set up prospecting automation in 3 simple steps

From manual chaos to automated B2B pipeline in under an hour.

1

Upload your prospecting list

Import buyers, distributors, partners from CSV

wholesale-prospects.csv
Name Company Email
Jennifer R. Coastal Boutiques jen@...
Marcus T. Metro Retail marcus@...
Elena V. Lifestyle Stores elena@...
2

Build your automated sequence

Multi-touch outreach with smart timing

1
Initial brand intro
Day 0 • 9:30 AM
2
Product differentiation
Day 4 • 1:00 PM
3
Sample offer + calendar
Day 9 • 11:00 AM
3

Monitor and optimize

Track performance, refine messaging

Prospects contacted 487
Engagement rate 41.2%
Conversations started 9.7%

Best practices for automated ecommerce prospecting

How to automate prospecting without losing the personal touch

Don't blast the same message to luxury boutiques, outdoor retailers, and home goods chains. Build separate prospect lists by retail category, price tier, and geography. Create custom sequences for each segment that speak to their specific needs. Automation scales volume, but segmentation maintains relevance. Both matter.

Using {{firstName}} in your email template is table stakes. Real personalization references specific details: the buyer's store locations, their current brand mix, recent press coverage, seasonal focus. Include these data points in your CSV and use variables to weave them into your emails. Automated doesn't mean generic.

Don't go from zero to 500 emails per day. Email providers flag sudden volume spikes as spam. Start with 20-30 emails per day, warm up your domain over two weeks, then scale to 50-100 per day. Use Beeving's multi-inbox rotation to distribute volume across several email addresses. Slow and steady wins deliverability.

Every email in your sequence should give the buyer a reason to care. Email one introduces your brand and a specific benefit. Email two shares a case study or social proof. Email three offers samples. Email four references their buying season. Don't just say 'following up' seven times. Add value every time.

Automation handles sending, but you need to handle replies personally. Check your inbox daily, respond to interested buyers quickly, and manually pause anyone who asks to be removed. Also review engagement data: if someone hasn't opened five emails, pause their sequence and try a different approach later. Automate the routine, personalize the important stuff.

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