Real-World Business Automation Tutorial | n8n + Airtable + Gmail

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What if one simple automation could eliminate hours of boring, repetitive work every week?

In this tutorial, we walk you through a real-world business automation built with n8n, Airtable, and Gmail—the exact kind of workflow companies pay automation agencies for.

This is not a toy demo.

You’ll see how to:
✅ Automate a time-consuming office task in seconds
✅ Connect n8n with Airtable as a powerful backend
✅ Trigger and send automated emails through Gmail
✅ Reduce human error and manual follow-ups
✅ Build an automation that actually delivers business value

Whether you’re:

An office worker tired of repetitive admin work

A founder or ops manager looking to increase efficiency

An automation freelancer or agency owner building real client workflows

…this video shows you how simple automations can create massive ROI.

🧠 Why This Automation Matters

Most people think automation has to be complicated or “AI-heavy.”
In reality, the most valuable automations are often the simplest ones—they just remove friction, save time, and scale effortlessly.

This workflow is a perfect entry point into:

Business process automation
Internal tooling
AI & no-code system design

🛠 Tools Used

🔹 Eleven Labs – The realistic, human-sounding voice in the introduction
👉 https://try.elevenlabs.io/kygw8qm7dbp2

🔹 N8N – Automate workflows & connect everything together
👉 https://n8n.io/

🔹 Airtable – An AI-smart database
👉 https://www.airtable.com/

If you want to try Airtable for yourself, sign up here:
https://airtable.com/invite/r/O9BEqVri

🎯 Links mentioned in the tutorial:

Code snippet for the Javascipt Code node:
https://docs.n8n.io/courses/level-one...

Code snippet for Gmail totals email
https://docs.n8n.io/courses/level-one...

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