Boost SME growth with n8n & Make: my 5-step no-code automation playbook

The 90-second pitch

I run SmaxSell, a French micro-agency that helps 20-50 employee companies win back 15 h/week and +40 % leads without writing code.

Our secret sauce? Open-source n8n + Make.com glued to their existing stack (WordPress, HubSpot, Stripe, Slack).

The 5-step playbook I deploy every month

1. Map the pain – 30 min call → list every copy-paste task (CRM, invoicing, support).
2. Pick the trigger – Form submit, Woo order, Calendly event, Gmail label…
3. Build the flow – 1 n8n workflow: condition nodes, HTTP requests, 0 JavaScript.
4. Add notifications – Slack/Teams message + Google Sheet log for audit.
5. Monitor & optimise – Built-in n8n “Execution time” + Sentry for fails → aim <1 s/run.

Real numbers (last 30 days)

• Bakery e-commerce: 8 s → 0.9 s load time, +28 % checkout rate.
• B2B SaaS: MQL → SQL in 4 min instead of 2 days; sales team happiness 📈.

Freebies

Grab the JSON export of my “Lead-to-Sale” zap here:

SmaxSell Resources – no email wall, PR welcome!

Let’s connect

Questions? Drop a comment or DM me on Nostr npub1smax… ⚡️

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