The $1,200 Client Hiding In Your Local Facebook Group

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I was scrolling through a local business Facebook group at 11 PM when I saw it.

"Does anyone know a good data entry person? We're drowning in patient intake forms."

It was a dental practice. Three locations. 30 forms daily. Their receptionist spent 15 minutes per form manually typing data into their practice management system.

I sent a DM: "I can automate that. Want to see how?"

Twenty minutes later, I was on a Zoom call showing them a live demo. Gmail receives form → Parse document extracts data → Posts to their system. Three nodes in n8n.

THE NUMBERS:

Before - 30 forms × 15 minutes = 7.5 hours daily

After - Fully automated

Their annual cost - Manual entry was costing them roughly $45,000/year in staff time

My setup fee - $1,200

Monthly maintenance - $80

I built it in 4 hours. Used the PDF Vector n8n node for form parsing. The practice manager literally said "Why isn't everyone doing this?"

Here's what I learned: Your first client doesn't need to be some massive enterprise. They just need a painful, repetitive document problem that costs them money every single day.

The discovery process was dead simple:

1. Found them complaining in public (Facebook group)

2. Offered specific solution (not vague "automation services")

3. Showed them live (built while they watched)

4. Priced based on their pain (not my time)

TEMPLATE I USED: Patient Form Processing workflow

The best part? They referred me to two other practices in their network. Same workflow. Just changed the field mappings. $1,200 each.

Document processing is THE perfect first client service. Everyone has documents. Everyone hates processing them. Everyone will pay to fix it.

What Facebook groups are you in where people complain about document problems?

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