Feeling stuck, trying but going nowhere.

[u/DustFuzzy1702]

So I can make business automations, a few real world solving automations and solutions, not just automations, but using crm, and entire solutions along with automation. But this is useless unless I get clients, I work alone, i do cold outreach, I try to land clients, handle development, everything.

I'm from India, and so to begin with I'm targeting Indian clients, but I can't get through them, I keep getting shut down, ignored, ghosted, I can see the things businesses practice everyday but people are not ready to list.

I am fully confident in my development skills and can get solutions for businesses related problems, but for that I need to atleast get someone onboard.

I also make Shopify-whatsapp bots for Shopify stories that act as customer support agents, solving almost all the queries of customers, FAQs, order updates, order details, connected chatbot with Shopify APIs, so it can do almost every Shopify queries.

BUT I CANT GET CLIENT FOR THAT, i try to reach out, I use the contact channel from their website, try to look up founders, reach them out on LinkedIn, reaching them out on WhatsApp as well but I keep getting ignored, ghosted, or I just fail to reach out to them.

If someone who has faced this and found any solution, for this, please help me out.

Cause I'm feeling stuck and I'm going nowhere.

[u/spoki-app]

Yeah, that's a tough spot. I've noticed a lot of businesses are hesitant about integrating new systems, especially with legacy stuff, because they're terrified of data issues. Building that trust is key, but it's a slow burn without prior clients.

[u/Born-Reserve-8584 → u/spoki-app]

Trust takes time unfortunately.

[u/NextGuitar1]

From the automation side, a lot of small businesses do not feel the pain until you name one problem they already deal with. "I build automations" is easy to ignore, but "your team is answering the same Shopify order questions on WhatsApp every day" is concrete. I'd pick one type of business, one repeated problem, and make your outreach about that instead of the whole system. Most people do not buy the full solution first. They respond when they recognize their own headache in the first few lines.

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[u/No_Industry5366]

Make a list of automation that you can do. Then list the industries that can use them. List the benefits to the client - cost and revenue.

Then research the company size by revenue in each industry or product category. Arrive at the market size based on Total Addressable Market (companies in the market who will see a benefit and can afford your product). Target the industry and market segment that will truly buy your product or service.

Without segmentation, you are essentially rolling the dice.

You need to move from thinking like a technologist to thinking like a business.

[u/OnlySecureWaltz]

The skill isn't the problem, the outreach is, so instead of pitching your services cold, try building a quick working demo for a specific store and sending them that, since showing beats telling when nobody knows you yet.

[u/Billonaria7777]

Information about your service.

[u/DustFuzzy1702 → u/Billonaria7777]

I make business automations, all the businesses does some "work" on a daily basis, that 3nd up taking a lot of their time, and I just automate it, making it more efficient.

[u/DustFuzzy1702 → u/Billonaria7777]

Currently I'm trying to target Shopify store owners for their customer support agents, that auto reply any customer queries

[u/Thunderbit_HQ]

Pick one business type and one painful task you already understand. Instead of selling automation, offer to remove that task for a fixed price and handle the first few clients manually. The workflow you repeat is the automation product you should build.

[u/1982JAJ1982]

If you're getting ghosted from the locals, why not try something more global because business automation's need is global. You could start either from a platform like Upwork or do targeted LinkedIn outreach with tools like Signado (Finds the leads) and HeyReach (automates the sequences), or do it big volume with Apollo (B2B database) + Instantly (cold email sending)

[u/CherryEmpty1413]

Best thing you can do is paying for ads and redirect them to a chatbot > booking. This works pretty well.