Can you give examples of automation you’ve built for the real‑estate niche, and should I target freelancers, individuals, or companies and agencies?

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Can you give examples of automation you’ve built for the real‑estate niche, and should I target freelancers, individuals, or companies and agencies?

I recommend targeting businesses with 1‑10 employees, so you can serve both freelancers/individuals and small agencies without making it exclusive. As for examples, I’ve built a cold‑email system for a brokerage that flips under‑priced homes. They had a list of about 50,000 contacts; the system pulled personal data, crafted personalized cold‑email campaigns, and generated massive responses—some reports suggest $50‑150 K in the first day. I also created automated property‑assessment tools that ingest a property’s square footage, regional price per square foot, distance to schools, crime rates, and other factors to output an instant valuation. These tools run on a custom platform (omake.com) and automate the entire assessment workflow. Both solutions have real value for real‑estate professionals and demonstrate the kind of automation you can sell in that niche.

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What strategies can I use to integrate my automation services with local small‑to‑medium‑sized businesses via cold DMs?

Nick advises Jake to stick with packaged automation services rather than moving to custom projects, because custom work suffers from scope bloat and inefficiencies. He suggests leveraging Jake’s existing mortgage‑originator network: compile a list of all B2B clients and leads from that work, plus any other network connections. In a spreadsheet, put clients in column A, ways you could help them in column B, systems you could build or sell in column C, and pitch price in column D. Then warm‑pitch each contact by referencing your automation work and asking if they know anyone who might need it. Start with existing clients and leads, then expand to your wider network for referrals. This approach uses your proven problem‑solver reputation, making outreach far more effective than cold outreach. After exhausting warm contacts, you can still add a scalable outbound mechanism (e.g., B2B cold email) to reach strangers, but the warm path is the fastest route to revenue.

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What niches are currently most in demand for automation in the US, such as HVAC, dentists, and law firms?

We have a bunch of people in Maker School experimenting with a wide landscape of niches, which is a benefit of being in the community. You can see which niches are working and which aren’t. HVAC, dentists, and law firms aren’t making a ton of money with automation because there aren’t enough of them to apply high‑volume, iterative strategies. I don’t recommend focusing on local services; instead go entirely digital and target industries with large headcounts that can benefit from automation without hurting profitability. The biggest boom right now is recruitment, which saw a surge of interest and will likely rise again. I also suggest experimenting with recruitment, older‑school agencies that haven’t caught up, MSPs, IT consultants, and similar businesses that can source leads automatically via tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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I'm in the real estate niche with zero money and cannot use free trials. What service can I provide to real estate agents?

You can't use free trial software, so offering an AI automation service isn't feasible. However, you can still provide services like copywriting, marketing, or social media management to real estate agents. For ideas, browse Fiverr for marketing services to see what others are offering. Ultimately, with no money and no access to free trials, your options are limited to these types of services.

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Hey Nick, what are some automations, builds, and offers that can be easily sold by beginners on cold traffic? Is it strictly stuff that brings new money or clients to the company? And is there something automation related rather than say cold email?

Cold email isn't really automation; you can easily build an AI‑enabled cold‑email agency, which is a top solo‑freelancer model right now. But the simplest, highest‑leveraged system you can build for a client is a 'speedtole' system—a glorified autoresponder. You watch a mailbox for incoming mail from a filter (e.g., Facebook lead ads sending an email), then using Make.com, n8n, or cloud routines you scan the mailbox, get the trigger, and immediately reply via email. Then you send a Twilio SMS, and a team member calls the prospect. This cuts response time from minutes to under a minute, boosting pickup and conversion rates because of the perceived professionalism of your system. I’ve seen this system add over a million dollars in revenue for clients and improve existing funnels by 10‑20%, easily generating an easy $500k per year.

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