Hey y’all — the “Template Curator” is back with the best free picks of the week: 🤖 Claude Opus 4 creates n8n workflows for you – This tutorial is top-notch. The key to Claude working well is setting up the project with the right files, prompts, and context. 🗺️ 100+ local email finder – Finds businesses via Google Maps and saves the verified emails to Airtable. Perfect for an AI Agency looking to work with local, small businesses. 📄 Chat with 500+ page PDFs – Great for beginners looking to learn RAG and setting up a vector database. All conversations are logged to Airtable. I roll all this up (and more) in a weekly newsletter. Keep automating! – Paul from Autominted.com

Had my first community member share their Expert Positioning Statement in a post just now. This single statement is one of the most effective things you can do for your business. Identify who you are, who your audience is, what you sell, and why. If this is constantly your guiding North Star you can't fail. Every decision you make in your business should be guided by this statement. I spent so many hours building out the first month of my personal branding/automation course, and it legit makes me so happy to see someone finding value in the experience. Hopefully this is 1 of many!

Hey y'all - Back again with 3 templates that really stood out last week to help your business grow (I am not affiliated with any of the creators). 🔍 Free SEO Tracking – I love free SEO tools that help you better understand your business by producing a report on keywords. Here's the complete no-code tutorial and here's where you can Get Workflow Template. ✍️ $1 Blog Posts – This one is a really great collaborative approach with AI to produce quality blog posts for so cheap. You’ll need both the AI Agent and Workflow template below. Here's where you can get the video walkthrough. Here's where you can Get AI Agent Blueprint and where you can Get Workflow Template. 💬 Twitter Growth Hack – This one takes a really smart approach to social selling by targeting mentions. Here's the Youtube guide and where you can Get Workflow Template

tbh it's the happiest and most excited I've felt in a while My name's Duncan. Great to be here. Nate rocks. I have a background in art direction and motion graphics working in-house for brands like Apple, PlayStation, Nissan, Charles Schwab. But I have absolutely fallen in love with automation. That being said, there are tons of people out there with free videos and tutorials (which I am incredibly thankful for), and even automation workflows you can grab. I thought "how can I be different?" - about 2 weeks ago it hit me. My marketing experience with these major brands sets me apart. SO now I treat automation like the product. It's the entry. It gets you in the door and it is a valuable skill to learn for any business or content creator. BUT building a personal brand and strategically positioning yourself as an expert sets you apart from everyone else. I want to help people really understand themselves better. Who you are. What your unique background is. What you're interested in. What clients you most enjoy working with and what projects excite you. Then build your business and brand around that and become an authority in your niche. This is how you attract inbound leads rather than constantly chasing new work. Creating YouTube content has been the most impactful thing for my business, and the clients my channel attracts I connect with on a much deeper level. This has allowed me to build longer term relationships AND charge higher rates. I'm also much happier since I can select projects based on budget and my personal level of interest. My DMs are always open if anyone wants to chat about getting over that initial fear and hurdle of creating content and building a personal brand! Would love to meet all of you. It's been a blast already. 🫡 Also attaching a photo of my dog Larry. For obvious reasons. 😎

I thought I'd add some extra sauce for Nate's community here by sharing the best free templates I found for the week. What makes these the "best"? Totally based on my opinion, but I strive to make sure they all have youtube guides, free templates, and some type of cost transparency (it better be good if it costs 1000$ to run amirite?). Here are the best ones from last week: 🎥 $0.50 Video Shorts – BY FAR the cheapest video shorts creator I’ve come by. 📈 Personal AI video outreach – This was really unique and personal to get sales. 💬 Simple SMS Agent – Great for beginners, and maintains conversation history. I roll this up into one weekly newsletter. – Paul from Autominted.com