Hi everyone. Have really been struggling with invoicing and chasing clients recently. I more than anyone hate to spend my Sunday nights (or any time at all honestly) writing up invoices or sending "just following up again" emails for the third time. Anyway, I was playing around with ChatGPT and pieced together a little system that's actually been working. Wanted to share it in case it helps (and is completely free!): 1. Set up a free Make.com account — this is the glue that connects everything. 2. Connect it to whatever you use for email (Gmail works great) and a simple spreadsheet or Notion database as your project tracker. 3. Ask ChatGPT/Claude etc to write you an automation scenario that: sends a payment reminder 3 days before an invoice is due, follows up automatically if unpaid after 7 days, and logs each client interaction to your tracker. 4. Copy that scenario into Make — it'll walk you through connecting your accounts. Takes maybe 20 mins. 5. Use ChatGPT to also draft your email templates (late payment, project kickoff, delivery confirmation) so they actually sound like you. That's basically it. No fancy software, no accountant needed. The whole thing runs quietly in the background now and I haven't manually chased an invoice in weeks. I really hope this helps you 🙏 happy to chat more if anyone wants a walkthrough. Thank you!

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Hi all—I've been struggling with finding leads manually and I’m sure a lot of people here have been too (especially when starting out). I spent some time working through it last week, and here’s a simple way I solved it for less than $10 1. Using Apify, (a scraping platform with a good free tier) I used the google maps scraper to find me businesses in a certain niche + general location 2. I used these leads to create a large google sheets list with information such as current website, contact info etc 3. From there, reaching out and cold contacting these places became a lot more systemised and simple Just a huge win that helped me with outreach a ton. If anything is unclear, let me know. Hope this helps you 🙏 (P.S Here's the link to the Apify actor if you feel like giving it a go: https://console.apify.com/actors/nwua9Gu5YrADL7ZDj/input)