The automation builders making $10K+/month aren't better at n8n than you

Ahmad Shayan

13h • General Discussion 💬

They're better at something else entirely.

I spent 2 weeks analyzing multiple automation builders who consistently land clients.

Expected to find: Advanced workflows, complex integrations, years of experience.

Actually found: Most of them use the same 5-7 nodes for 80% of their paid work.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦

They don't sell "automation."

They sell "you never have to think about this again."

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧

Builder A (making $2-3K/month):

Portfolio: 15 complex workflows
Pitch: "I can build any automation you need"
Client response: "Interesting, let me think about it"

Builder B (making $8-12K/month):

Portfolio: 3 simple case studies with specific results
Pitch: "I noticed you're manually doing X. That's costing you Y hours/week. I can eliminate that in 3 days."
Client response: "When can we start?"

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞?

Builder A is selling their skills.

Builder B is selling the END of a specific pain.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬

The builders closing consistent clients do this:

𝟏. 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 (lead follow-up, appointment booking, invoice processing)

𝟐. 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 for themselves or a free client

𝟑. 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐓 (not the process):

"Reduced response time from 4 hours to 4 minutes"
"Eliminated 12 hours of manual data entry per week"
"Zero missed leads, even at 2am"

𝟒. 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟎 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 with the exact same pain

𝟓. 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 someone else got

This is not about being the best builder.

It's about being the person who understands their specific problem deeply enough to explain the relief they'll feel when it's gone.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐩

Everyone's debating Lovable vs Bolt vs n8n vs Make.

Meanwhile, businesses are bleeding money on:

Leads going cold because response time is 6 hours
Appointments being double-booked manually
Data living in 5 different places with no connection

They don't care what you build it in.

They care that Monday morning, the problem doesn't exist anymore.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐌𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞

Stop learning new tools this week.

Instead, do this

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲: Message 3 businesses and ask: "What manual task eats up the most time in your day?"

𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰: Pick the most common pain you heard.

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤: Build ONE solution for that pain. Document the before/after.

𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤: Show that case study to 10 more businesses with the same problem.

That's the pattern.

Not better skills. Better problem identification.

𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩

What's ONE specific business pain you've noticed in your network that keeps showing up?

(Not "inefficiency" or "bad processes" - be specific. "Restaurant owners manually calling no-shows" or "Real estate agents copy-pasting inquiry responses 40x/day")

Let's build a list of real problems in the comments 👇

Maybe your observation is someone else's next $3K project.

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