My automation journey so far 👇 I started by building everything with n8n. Then I discovered Liam Ottley on YouTube (www.youtube.com/@LiamOttley) and started learning + building more advanced systems with Make.com. Sharing all the automations I built in sequence.

Hey I know accelerator is a great program but I want to know can I get first clients without it?

Your Shopify store isn’t selling. Before you change the theme, redesign the homepage, add more products, or increase your ad budget… find the bottleneck first. I use a simple way of looking at it: 1. No clicks → Traffic or creative problem If people aren’t clicking, don’t immediately blame the store. Look at the ad, content, targeting, hook, and the promise you're making. 2. Clicks but no add-to-carts → Offer or product problem People were interested enough to visit. But something stopped them from taking the next step. That could be pricing, positioning, product-market fit, the page, or simply the wrong audience. 3. Add-to-carts but no purchases → Conversion problem Now you know people want the product. Something is happening between interest and payment. Look at shipping costs, trust, checkout friction, guarantees, payment options, and the overall buying experience. 4. Sales but no profit → Economics problem This one gets overlooked. Getting orders doesn't automatically mean you have a good business. Look at: Customer acquisition cost Product cost Shipping Fees Refunds Average order value Repeat purchases You can have a store making sales and still be losing money. That’s why I stopped looking at Shopify as: “Build store → run ads → hope it works.” It’s more like: Traffic → Click → Product/Offer → Add to Cart → Checkout → Profit If you know where people are dropping off, you know what to work on. If you don’t… you’re basically changing random things and hoping something fixes itself. That little shift in thinking saved me a lot of wasted time and money.

One thing I keep noticing in AI automation: People sometimes use an AI agent where a simple workflow would be better. For example: Form submitted → validate data → update CRM → send confirmation That probably doesn’t need an autonomous agent. But: Customer asks a complex question → search knowledge base → understand intent → decide what information is needed → use tools → respond → escalate if necessary Now an agent starts making more sense. So I’m curious: **Where do you personally draw the line between a workflow and an AI agent?** Would love to hear how other builders are deciding this in real projects. ---

I'm trying to figure out the cleanest way to handle two parts of my offer. One, if a new lead hits the client CRM, what's the simplest and fastest way to get that lead into their specific GoHighLevel sub-account, or is there a better way than Make or Zapier? And two, how do you give the AI access to the client's real-time calendar availability, outside of GoHighLevel, so it books accurately without double bookings? For folks who've built something similar, what's the cleanest setup? Thank you