Since YouTube is your main acquisition channel, which of your videos bring you 90% of customers for Maker School?

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Since YouTube is your main acquisition channel, which of your videos bring you 90% of customers for Maker School?

It's almost entirely my long-form course videos about AI and automation specifically. Let me go and find one of these; it's almost always just like my crazy long-form ones. For example, the N8N full course one—what I learned instead of automation in 2026, watch me start and sell a service in 10 hours, five boring AI automations, and then build your first ad business in 6 hours. Anyway, hopefully that was fun, but damn, man. Pay attention to people's eyes from here on out because you never know.

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Your channel has a lot of guides and helpful content, but I'm confused about where to start — I found your 8-hour video and got lost. What type of project should I practice with?

Simplest path: start with 'Build Your First AI Business in 6 Hours,' then the n8n full course (6 hours, build and sell automations plus agents), then n8n-specific build videos if you're using n8n, plus the prompt engineering video that's trending right now. That's enough to get going — everything else from there is just extra.

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What should I learn to become a fluent AI automation consultant, and what additional value does your school program provide compared to your free YouTube content?

You don’t need to become a mathematician or rebuild a GPT from scratch. The deep‑under‑the‑hood details are only about 2 % of the value. Focus on prompt engineering – it’s an extraordinarily high‑income skill – and combine it with no‑code tools. Spend time interacting with the models as much as possible, and you’ll quickly move into the top 10 % of AI consultants. Regarding the school program, everything I teach is already available for free on my YouTube channel. The program charges only for the implementation support and accountability that help you actually apply the knowledge and get results.

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How do you differentiate Maker School from other AI automation communities like Jack's?

Yeah, it's a great question. For those who don't know, I run Maker School community, and I'm currently number three on the revenue leaderboard with about $292k. My success comes from how I package the community. I position it as a B2B offer where members pay $184 a month to learn how to get their first paying customer for an AI or automation service. In 90 days they earn back the money they spent (not counting tool costs), effectively getting a customer that pays around $1,000, which feels like a five‑to‑six‑times ROI. While Jack's community and other AI automation groups were first movers just by being the go‑to place for AI talk, I took a sniper‑rifle approach: I niche down to teaching how to build a business, not just how to use AI. Now I'm integrating AI and automation curriculum directly into Maker School—I've finished a make.com and an NAN accelerator and just need to record the videos. We also still do Q&A and similar offerings. Most other automation communities stay broad and less differentiated; I solve the specific problem of wanting to sell something with AI/automation and then actually doing it.

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Jack Burke-di asks: As a total beginner with zero programming background, what path should I take to become proficient enough to sell automation services? What concepts should I learn first, and what key things do I need to get familiar with? I've been watching your videos and using Make resources but retain little because I don't understand the terminology.

Here's exactly what I recommend: go to nicksmake.com/playlist. It will take you to Make.com, a no‑code platform that's the simplest and easiest to get up and running with—just drag and drop modules across the screen. You already know what Make.com is, so I won't explain it. My playlist walks you through everything you need to know to actually make real money with the platform, not just academics but how to take the various tools and sell them. That's where I'd start. A couple of key things to be familiar with: I also recommend a video called '80% of automation basics in less than 30 minutes' (though I misspoke earlier; it's actually '80% of automation AI basics'). In that video I cover the main concepts: using APIs, webhooks, prompt engineering for AI, and test‑driven development. If you get those two resources, you'll probably be good. I don't recommend watching all 60+ hours of my Make.com videos; just the first 10‑15 should suffice.

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