How to Acquire Your First AI Automation Client For $0.00-$0.60

Heads up: dev made the scraper paid-only shortly after I published this vid! Read on for how to fix

It's now ~$0.60 for your first month instead of $0.00 (that's 400 leads at a cost of $1.20/1000 scrapes). The title used to be "$0.00", have changed it to "$0.00-$0.60" for accuracy. I've since reached out to Apify and they've given me a 30% off code that you can use (lifetime): NICK30. Use this when you upgrade your account and you'll knock those leads down to $0.40!

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Summary ⤵️
In this video, you'll learn a simple, repeatable outreach method that will help you acquire your first AI automation agency client for $0.

I'll start by walking you through my zero dollar tool stack, including tools like Apollo, Apify, and Loom. We'll then dive into creating custom videos that make outreach personal and effective (using LinkedIn profiles). I’ll show you an example of one, then share daily actionables you can use to secure paid engagements.

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Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:10:30 Disclaimer
00:12:25 Signing Up To Accounts
00:24:53 Scraping Leads for Free
00:32:33 Recording Custom Videos
00:39:14 Sending Outreach Messages
00:45:16 Pricing and Client Acquisition
00:49:48 Conclusion and Q&A

[nicksaraev]

Update—dev made the scraper paid-only shortly after I published this vid. Maybe they watch the channel 😉
Additional update: I sorted out a 30% lifetime Apify discount to my audience. You can apply it using 30NICKSARAEV when you upgrade your account (dashboard -> bottom left -> "Upgrade").
So to adjust: it's now ~$0.40 for your first month instead of $0.00 (420 leads at a cost of 0.33 x $1.20 / 1000 scrapes). Updated title for accuracy.

[yanmake]

I did not see it yet, but ever since I joined MMVM I can see about 50 minutes into the future - I can for sure the video was fucking amazing! keep it up Nick!

[CedricLauster]

I never really comment on videos, but I just had to do this. You are giving away so much valuable stuff completely for free, it's just wild. I'm from Germany and started my own AAA a while ago and I'm profiting so much from your videos. So from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU man. You're a real one :D

[lifeasadromomaniac]

Ok someone needs to get an Ai bot to learn his voice and you need to post guided mediations because your voice is heaven ! And obviously your client is out of this world too! Haha thanks for everything❤

[YourImpactInvestor]

insane intel - sometimes really difficult to get to the most cost-effective solutions when so many YouTubers are wanting to push an affiliate product, but the transparency as always is so valuable. no one out there like Nick

[JeremyDeighan]

21:25 might be better to just hide the columns instead of deleting them. That ways if you stack new data you don’t have to worry about which columns you need to delete, and hiding empty columns won’t take up that much extra space.

[nicksaraev]

🚀 Land your first automation client in 90 days — guaranteed

[gianniautomation]

Hey there Nick! Awesome video you have here. Really has helped me understand how to actually start acquiring leads. I'm sure lots of people can agree on this--WOW you are such a great human being for being so detailed with every step you make. It means a lot. Anyways I wanted to make you a request and that is--could you make an "ALL IN 1 VIDEO ON HOW TO GET UP AND RUNNING WITH 1 AUTOMATION OFFER" meaning it would be a step by step guide from 0-100% from creating a social presence using social media, a website, etc. To building an offer. To acquiring a lead and turning it into a client (when you do and what the process would look like) to how do you tell the prospect the price you will charge and finally how does your week look like when you have a client project going on for a month? small details. I know you have a bunch of videos with basically everything a person would need, but an all in 1 video would be epic, I think this something that a beginner could really be thankful for--if you ever do decide to do this! Thank you for reading this.

[JonAtLarge]

amusingly and coincidently, I found a stash of emails with videos from 3 years ago just this morning when I was doing the scraping manually and creating a unique video for each recruitment business, showing a chatbot on their website. I'd forgotten how cool it looked demoing them overlayed on their own site.

[michaeltheimmortal]

Great video Nick! Appreciate you taking the time to walk us through this simple yet powerful 3 step system. New to the channel and glad I found it. Looking forward to watching more of your content!

[warsamemohamed]

Hey Nick, this is such a good video, man. I’ve been watching your content for a long time now, just trying to learn. And I finally feel like I’m at a point where I can start landing my first projects and clients. This is exactly what I was looking for right now to help me get my first clients. Definitely gonna follow this step by step. Pure gems in here, appreciate it!

[Wild_Code_S]

Loads of value in 50 minutes. Thanks Goat

[DoctorGloriaE]

Just 4 minutes into this video, and I subscribed. Already see value

[ForexTradingMillionaire]

Great video Nich. Thanks. We can automate the loom part as well using Repliq so we don't have to record videos separately for each client. They've a free plan as well.

[nwinburn]

Thank you so much, Nick! You really are changing people's lives!!!

[alexandergottschick]

So much value for free! Thank you very much, Nick!
How can you provide even more value in Maker School? Feels like I am going to have my first projects after a few days then :D

[pedramaz]

This video is GOAT of freelancing Thanks Nick

[nicholasmoreno]

Can you show how to implement a system for a client. How does it go live and fully functional into their business.

[berserkmodmatrix]

this is really helpful, bravo to u for sharing these insights to the rest of ur audience! <3

[baltin]

This is amazing, thanks a lot for the value you bring mate