The “Boring Stuff” Button
“The best marketers don’t work harder. They build better buttons.” — Someone who used n8n right
Most B2B marketers aren’t overworked.
They’re under-automated.
Every week, you spend 3 hours cleaning lists.
2 hours pulling CRM reports.
1 hour formatting campaign UTM links.
That’s not strategy. That’s admin work dressed up as “marketing ops.”
Time to automate the boring stuff.
The Framework: The Boring Stuff Button
This is how to turn n8n into your secret automation layer:
1. Map your recurring manual tasks
→ Anything you do weekly = automation candidate.
2. Use n8n to build “if-this-then-that” flows
→ No-code meets dev-grade logic.
3. Add AI where you’d need a human touch
→ Claude/GPT = your junior ops intern.
The Use Case
A growth marketer at a B2B SaaS firm cut campaign setup time by 70%.
Before:
Scraped event leads from a spreadsheet
Manually enriched in Clearbit
Created HubSpot lists by hand
Built UTM links + updated Monday boards
After:
n8n auto-scrapes leads
Enriches + filters them via Clearbit
Auto-builds campaign lists in HubSpot
Tags & tracks status in Monday.com
One button. Zero clicks. 100% clean setup.
Tool Stack & Prompts
n8n – Your visual ops engine
Clearbit API – Contact enrichment
HubSpot – CRM magic
Claude/GPT – Ask:
“Act like a Marketing Ops lead. Review this campaign setup and flag missing UTM parameters or segment mismatches.”
Try This Prompt
“List 3 marketing workflows I repeat every week. Suggest an n8n automation for each — include tools I already use (e.g., HubSpot, Slack, Google Sheets).”
Want to build your first “Boring Stuff Button”?
Steal my n8n starter template – reply “AUTOMATE” and I’ll send it your way.
– Fatmir
PS: If you’re manually updating spreadsheets in 2025… n8n called. It wants to save your soul.