Hello everyone.
Over the past few months, I’ve been learning N8N and already built a few workflows for myself.
I wanted to expand my skill and turn it into a business to earn some income.
However, there’s a problem: I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO FIND AND TALK TO CLIENTS
The idea of going out there and talk to them is terrifying and makes me anxious, but since I am desperate to get out of my comfort zone, I am willing to go out of my comfort zone.
I want to target the e-commerce niche, but I’m not quite sure what workflows will get them to buy from me.
If I do ever have a lead list:
How do I make sure that they’ll really buy from me?
Where do I find more clients?
How do I get them to say yes?
How do I hand over the workflows?
How much should I charge? Should I offer it for free for the first three clients?
What should be their company headcount?
I hope someone could help me out, I also need some money to pay for my college and bills. Thank you, everyone 
The niche isn’t the blocker here — a repeatable, visible outcome is. Pick one job for one shop type and lead with that specific result, e.g. “every abandoned checkout gets a follow-up within the hour and it’s logged in your sheet”, or “new supplier stock lands in your store with the prices fixed up”. “Automation consulting” gives them nothing to say yes to; a named outcome with a number attached (“this took 6 hours a week, now it’s 30 minutes”) does.
On finding clients when cold outreach makes you anxious: inbound works better anyway. Answer questions where merchants are already complaining about the manual task, in their own communities — not sales DMs — publish the workflow you built as a free template with your name on it, and ask each existing client for one referral. That last one compounds; cold DMs mostly cost you anxiety and return nothing.
De-risk both sides: sell a small paid discovery first (a fixed fee for a written “here’s your process, here’s what I’d automate first, here’s what it costs”), then make the first build a fixed-scope pilot priced low enough that saying yes is easy. Build the demo on their sample data before they commit — a working mock removes most of the doubt, and it’s the closest thing to experience you can show without a client. Get the scope in writing, too: unlimited revisions is how a decent client relationship turns into an unpaid job.
E-commerce specifics worth leading with because they’re measurable: abandoned-cart follow-up, order-to-accounting sync, stock alerts from supplier emails, and review requests after delivery. Those are boring, painful and easy to quantify — which is exactly what makes them easy to sell.
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Along with use agentraas.io to avoid double action of your agents
You already have the hard part, working workflows. The gap is that they were built for you, so nobody else can see what they’d get out of them. Before you chase a lead list, turn one of your own workflows into a 2 minute screen recording aimed at one e-commerce problem, like a customer asks “where is my order” and the reply goes out with the real tracking status. Showing something that works is a lot less scary than pitching.
For the anxious part, skip cold DMs for now. Find 5 small shop owners you can reach through someone you know, and ask to watch how they handle orders and support for 20 minutes. Don’t pitch anything. You’ll see which manual task they hate, and that answers “what will they buy” better than any guide. Doing the first one cheap or free is fine if it comes with a written scope and a testimonial, since right now you need the proof more than the money.
Let AI draft the workflow nodes and the proposal wording. What I’d keep for yourself is the conversations with the owners and checking the workflow against real orders, because a wrong refund or a wrong email to a customer is what loses a client.
When you say you built a few for yourself, what do they do? That would tell me which one to show first.
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