Skytek Press

Build Your Own Automation

A Step-by-Step n8n Workbook for Small Businesses and Online Sellers, No Coding Required

Measure first, then automate.

One online seller's three-minute task added up to 94 hours a year. This workbook helps you find yours, decide whether it's worth automating, and build the automation yourself in n8n, without writing code.

Complete Kit: e-book (PDF) + Excel template + updated editions by email

Price: $29 (USD). Sales tax or VAT, if applicable, is calculated at checkout by our reseller Paddle.

Read the first two chapters free (PDF)
Cover of the e-book Build Your Own Automation

Try the Chapter 1 sum on one of your tasks

Hours per year = times a week × minutes each time × 52 ÷ 60

94 hours a year

What you get

  • The e-book (PDF, 97 pages): 8 hands-on chapters plus 6 appendices, with real n8n 2.x screenshots
  • The Automation Map template (Excel, also opens in Google Sheets): list your repeating tasks, see their yearly hours and payback ratio
  • Free corrected editions: if we fix or update this edition, you download it again at no cost
  • Instant delivery: a download link by email a few minutes after payment

Pages from the book

Chapters 0 and 1 are in the free sample. The last page is from Chapter 5, where your first workflow runs.

  • Book page: the opening of Chapter 1, Measure your time
    Chapter 1 opens with what you will have at the end
  • Book page: a table for turning how often a task happens into a weekly number
    Step-by-step instructions with tables to fill in
  • Book page: a worked example with three tasks and their yearly hours
    A worked example and a checklist in each chapter
  • Book page: n8n screenshots of the finished workflow and the spreadsheet row it wrote
    Chapter 5: real n8n screenshots of the result

What you'll do

Measure

  1. 1List the tasks that repeat in your business every week
  2. 2Calculate how many hours a year each one costs you

Decide

  1. 3Decide which ones are worth automating, and which ones you should leave alone

Build

  1. 4Build, publish and monitor your first workflow: from Gmail to Google Sheets
  2. 5Build your second workflow on your own

Who it's for

  • You run a small business or sell on an online marketplace or your own store
  • You do the same tasks every week
  • You can fill in a spreadsheet and change a website's settings

Not for you if you're a software developer (it will feel slow) or you're not comfortable with computers yet.

Contents

  1. 0 · Before you start
  2. 1 · Measure your time
  3. 2 · Decide what to automate
  4. 3 · Draw the workflow on paper
  5. 4 · Open and connect your accounts
  6. 5 · Build your first workflow
  7. 6 · Publish and monitor
  8. 7 · Build your second workflow on your own
  9. Appendices: Template · Checklists · Error catalog · Expressions · Cost · Glossary and answers

Written by the Skytek team

Skytek is a small company in Bursa, Türkiye, that sells on eight online marketplaces. The examples in this book come from our own work: the three-minute task behind the 94 hours is our own order-notification check, done six times a day.

We also show what didn't work. We spent six weeks trying to automate marketplace returns and gave up. We automated the return notification instead, and a person still makes the decision.

The screenshots come from our own n8n account, so a few spreadsheet names in them are in Turkish. The book was first published in Turkish as Kendi Otomasyonunu Kur in October 2026.

Three rows from Skytek's own table (Chapter 1)
TaskHours per year
Checking marketplace order notifications94
Preparing the reseller price list36
Checking competitor prices26

Questions

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You connect boxes in n8n's visual editor. Where the book uses an expression, it shows you exactly what to type.

Is n8n included?

No. n8n Cloud is a separate paid service with a free trial, offered by n8n. The book tells you when to open your account so you use the trial for building, and Appendix E shows the costs as of October 2026.

Does the book use AI?

No. The workflows in this book are rule-based. Most repeating tasks don't need AI.

Which n8n version?

All screens were tested with n8n 2.x in September–October 2026. If a screen changes, we post the correction on this page.

Can I get a refund?

No. All sales are final because the files are delivered instantly. Read the free sample first.

Complete Kit: e-book (PDF) + Excel template + updated editions by email

$29 (USD), digital download, all sales final (Refund Policy).

Read the first two chapters free (PDF)

Updates and corrections

No corrections yet for the first English edition.

To report an error: skytek@skytek.live

Adapted from the Turkish original Kendi Otomasyonunu Kur (Skytek Yayınları, October 2026).