✍️ By Michael Olakunle | Digital Specialist & AI Workflow Consultant | May 2026
Make.com
Automation
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If you are running a business in 2026 and still doing these tasks manually, you are leaving hours of productivity on the table every single week.
I am Michael Olakunle, a Digital Specialist and Make.com automation expert based in Ondo, Nigeria. I have built hundreds of automation workflows for clients across the UK, US and worldwide. In this article I am going to show you the 10 business tasks you should automate right now and exactly how Make.com makes it happen.
What You Will Learn
- The 10 most time-wasting manual tasks in small businesses
- How Make.com automates each one
- How much time each automation saves per week
- How to get started even with zero technical experience
What is Make.com?
Make.com (formerly called Integromat) is a visual automation platform that connects your apps and automates repetitive tasks without any coding. You build workflows called scenarios by connecting triggers and actions on a visual canvas.
For example: when a new customer fills your contact form (trigger), Make.com automatically adds them to your CRM, sends a welcome email and notifies you on WhatsApp (actions). All of this happens in seconds without you doing anything manually.
Make.com connects your apps and automates workflows visually
10 Business Tasks You Should Automate Right Now
1
Lead Capture and CRM Entry
Every time someone fills your contact form or sends an enquiry, you have to manually copy their details into your CRM. This takes 5 to 10 minutes per lead and leads often get missed or delayed.
How Make.com fixes it: Make.com watches your form (Typeform, Google Forms or any form tool) and instantly creates a new contact in your CRM (HubSpot, Airtable or Notion) the moment someone submits. No manual entry ever again.
⏱ Saves 3 to 5 hours per week
2
Follow-up Emails After Enquiries
Following up with leads manually is one of the biggest reasons businesses lose clients. People forget, get busy or simply do not have time to send a personalised reply within the critical first hour.
How Make.com fixes it: The moment a new lead comes in, Make.com triggers a personalised follow-up email from your Gmail or business email automatically. The lead gets a response within seconds while you are focused on other work.
⏱ Saves 2 to 4 hours per week
Automated follow-up emails close more deals without any manual effort
3
Blog Content Publishing
Writing, editing and publishing blog posts takes hours every week. Most businesses either publish inconsistently or stop altogether because it is too time consuming.
How Make.com fixes it: Make.com connects to Gemini AI to research trending topics, write full blog posts, humanise the content and publish it to your blog automatically on a schedule. My clients go from 1 post per month to 5 posts per week with zero daily effort.
⏱ Saves 8 to 15 hours per week
4
Shopify Order Management
Every new Shopify order requires updating inventory, notifying the fulfilment team and logging the sale. Done manually for 20 or 30 orders a day this becomes a full-time job.
How Make.com fixes it: Make.com watches for new Shopify orders and automatically updates your inventory spreadsheet, sends fulfilment notifications and logs everything to your sales dashboard. Every order handled in seconds.
⏱ Saves 5 to 10 hours per week
5
Invoice Generation and Sending
Creating invoices manually after every project or sale is tedious and error-prone. Forgotten invoices mean lost revenue.
How Make.com fixes it: When a project is marked complete in your project management tool, Make.com automatically generates an invoice using a template, fills in the client details and sends it via email. Payment requests go out instantly every time.
⏱ Saves 2 to 3 hours per week
Automated invoicing means you never forget to send a payment request
6
Social Media Scheduling and Posting
Posting consistently on social media is essential for visibility but manually posting every day is time consuming and easy to forget.
How Make.com fixes it: Make.com can take your latest blog post, create a social media caption using AI, and post it automatically to Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook at the optimal time. Content that used to take 30 minutes per post now takes zero minutes.
⏱ Saves 3 to 5 hours per week
7
Data Entry and Spreadsheet Updates
Copying data from emails, forms or documents into spreadsheets is one of the most common and most time-wasting tasks in any business.
How Make.com fixes it: Make.com extracts data from incoming emails, form submissions or documents and automatically enters it into Google Sheets or Excel with 99.9% accuracy. What used to take hours happens in seconds.
⏱ Saves 5 to 10 hours per week
8
Client Onboarding
Every new client requires sending a welcome email, sharing an onboarding document, creating a project folder and setting up tasks. Done manually this takes 30 to 60 minutes per client.
How Make.com fixes it: When a new client pays or signs a contract, Make.com automatically sends the welcome email, shares the onboarding document, creates a Google Drive folder and sets up tasks in your project management tool. The entire onboarding happens in under a minute.
⏱ Saves 2 to 4 hours per week
Automated onboarding creates a professional first impression every time
9
Review and Testimonial Requests
Most businesses forget to ask for reviews. The ones that do ask manually only remember sometimes and miss the best moment — right after a project is completed.
How Make.com fixes it: When a project is marked complete, Make.com automatically sends a review request email to the client at exactly the right moment. More reviews means better credibility and higher rankings on Fiverr, Google and Clutch.
⏱ Saves 1 to 2 hours per week
10
Reporting and Analytics Updates
Pulling data from multiple sources to create weekly or monthly reports takes hours. Most business owners skip reporting because it is too time consuming.
How Make.com fixes it: Make.com pulls data automatically from your sales tools, CRM, website analytics and social media platforms and compiles it into a Google Sheets dashboard every week. You wake up Monday with a full report already ready.
⏱ Saves 3 to 5 hours per week
Total Time Saved Per Week
34 to 61 hours
That is almost a full second employee working for free — every single week.
Tools You Need to Get Started
🛠️ Make.com (free plan available) · Gmail · Google Sheets · Airtable or HubSpot · Typeform or Google Forms · Shopify (if ecommerce) · Gemini AI (for content automation)
The good news is Make.com has a free plan that gives you 1,000 operations per month — more than enough to get started with your first 2 or 3 automations.
How to Get Started
Start with just one automation — not all ten. Pick the task that wastes the most time in your business right now and automate that one first. Get it working perfectly, see the results, then add the next one.
The businesses saving 30 to 60 hours per week did not build all their automations overnight. They started with one, gained confidence and kept adding over time.
The hardest part is not the technical side. The hardest part is deciding to start.
Want These Automations Built For You?
I am Michael Olakunle, a Make.com automation expert based in Nigeria. I build custom workflows that save businesses 15 to 20 hours per week. Free consultation on every enquiry.
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Michael Olakunle
Digital Specialist and AI Workflow Consultant based in Ondo, Nigeria. 500+ projects delivered for 50+ clients across the UK, US and worldwide. Services include Make.com automation, Shopify store setup, GEO content strategy, automated content systems and data management. buildwithmo.netlify.app
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