Marketing Beginner 25 min

Getting Started with n8n

A step-by-step, beginner-friendly walkthrough that shows you how to connect Gmail to n8n, call OpenAI for smart drafting, and leave polished replies in your draft folder so you stay in control of every email.

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OpenAI API

LLM, embeddings, and other AI services from OpenAI.

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Set Up Polling in n8n

Learn to use polling to monitor changes and execute workflows

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Set Up Error Logging in n8n

With Error Logging, you can track, diagnose, and respond to errors automatically.

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The ready-to-import n8n workflow file with all nodes and settings.

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About This Project

This crash course turns a true beginner into a confident n8n builder in just 45 minutes. Follow along and pick up every essential skill you need to craft AI-powered workflows from scratch. You will learn how to: Understand the n8n building blocks: triggers, nodes, inputs, outputs, and data flow Authenticate third-party services with OAuth, then pull live Gmail data into your workflow Feed that data to OpenAI, shape the response with system and user prompts, and return clean JSON Pin test data, add dynamic expressions, and iterate safely to keep API costs under control Avoid common pitfalls such as recursion loops, missing thread IDs, and credential mix-ups Convert AI output into a ready-to-edit Gmail draft and send yourself automatic approval alerts Reuse data across nodes, chain multiple services, and harden workflows for production use The video closes with a roadmap for next-level projects, including email classification, scheduled digests, and new app integrations. Whether you write code daily or have never opened an IDE, you will finish with the mindset and techniques needed to launch your own AI-powered automations today.

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Customer-support ticket triage: pull Zendesk tickets, classify urgency with ChatGPT, auto-route critical issues to Slack, and log metrics in Google Sheets

Social-media sentiment monitor: stream brand mentions from Twitter, tag sentiment in real time, auto-reply to praise, and flag complaints for human review

CRM lead scorer: analyze new website form submissions, assign a numerical score, push hot leads into HubSpot, and create follow-up tasks in Trello

Daily news digest builder: fetch RSS headlines, cluster by topic, summarize with GPT, and email a morning briefing to your team

Meeting transcript summarizer: grab Zoom recordings, extract action items, push tasks to Asana, and store searchable notes in Google Docs

GitHub issue router: classify new bug reports by component and severity, auto-assign the right engineer, and update a sprint dashboard

E-commerce order watch: scan Shopify orders, flag potential fraud or VIP customers, notify fulfillment in Slack, and log risk scores to BigQuery

Job-application sorter: parse incoming resumes, extract skills, rank candidates, send personalized acknowledgements, and add details to Airtable

Podcast clip selector: transcribe episodes, tag quotable moments, generate social captions, and queue best clips for marketing

Financial transaction classifier: import bank feeds, bucket spending categories, detect anomalies, alert via SMS, and update a cash-flow sheet

IoT alert manager: consume sensor events, label severity with GPT, trigger on-call SMS for critical alerts, and archive everything in InfluxDB

Legal-document inbox: sort incoming contracts by type and deadline, draft follow-up questions, set calendar reminders, and file PDFs in Drive

Course discussion helper: ingest forum posts, tag unanswered questions, auto-answer FAQs, and ping instructors when attention is needed

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