#146 · 1hr of live AI agency lead gen (Upwork, Email, Fiverr)

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Am I too late to make tutorials on MakerN, or should I continue? Any suggestions on how to approach content creation?

I think templates and stuff are getting commoditized. I talked about this with Jack Roberts and Nate Herk the other day. We're definitely entering commodity land where templates themselves don't really have any value, which is why many people watch these tutorials—they just want the templates. However, I still see value in doing live builds like I'm doing, and that value will persist as long as these tools are viable, which is why I'm doubling and tripling down on them. But yeah, am I too late to make tutorials on Maker and have I done? If I were in your shoes, I probably wouldn't do this at all, because you're just getting into this. I'd focus on actually making real money with the stuff first, and later you can talk about how great you are at building these systems, because before you've made a fair amount of money, very few people will take you seriously. That's what will make you stand out: knowing you made $72,000 per month with your AI automation agency. Something like that.

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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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Should I spend a couple of months in Maker School to gain barebones AI knowledge as a complete AI beginner?

Maker School is designed to throw you into the deep end of AI automation and get you interacting with customers within the first few days. It isn’t a slow, gradual ramp‑up for total beginners. You could spend a few months learning basic AI concepts on your own, but you can also dive straight into Maker School and start doing lead generation right away. The program includes education, QA, bug fixes, and automation help as part of daily fulfillment, but it’s not a full end‑to‑end AI curriculum covering webhooks, APIs, etc. Instead, you get everything needed to reach the lead‑generation side of the business, daily actionables, and the resources to figure things out. This fast‑track approach is chosen because it offers the highest ROI and the shortest path from zero to one.

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Any tips for beginner freelancers on using Make when they don't have much to automate?

Sure, I’ll give you some tips for beginner freelancers using Make. First, consume the first 12 videos of my ‘Make Money with Make’ series to get familiar. Then create an Upwork account so you can see job postings. Read every automation job posting each day and look for the ones that clearly state what the client wants—those are the simplest and give you direct insight from customers who have money to spend. Try to build as many of those flows as you can each day; they’ll usually be simple two‑ or three‑module connections (e.g., linking Go High Level to Monday.com). Do this for a week, aiming for maybe twenty builds total. Next, record a video of yourself doing one of those builds (I use Loom) and send that video along with your application to the job. This shows you can deliver exactly what the client needs and gives you real‑world feedback from paying customers, which is far better than any influencer advice. If you don’t have anything to automate yet, just follow this roadmap from start to finish; it should take you about three days if you’re new, or a day if you’ve already done the basics, and then another week to feel comfortable applying to paid jobs. That’s the practical way to get up and running with Make as a freelancer.

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I've learned a ton from your content and dabbled in Maker School. You're very talented at taking complex topics and making them approachable. I watched your last video on what you learned in 2027 instead of automation. When are you planning to add more AI adoption, engagement, and enablement type content into Maker School, and what changes the outreach tactics for selling this type of service versus automation?

I just added a big workshop module to Maker School — just in the final QA touches here. Essentially this is an in-depth step-by-step guide to selling education, selling structured education to companies, selling training to companies, and so on. So I have actually added that in, and that is more AI adoption, engagement, enablement type stuff. Aside from that, I've also shifted towards teaching people how to build their own brands within the confines of Maker School, doing so in highly effective ways and then combining that with outreach and so on to really get the 80/20. So yeah, Maker School's evolved quite a bit — and thank God I called it Maker School and not Gemini 3.1 Pro school, huh? That's where I'm at with that.

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