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50 Business Automation Ideas You Can Implement This Week

From lead capture to invoice reminders — 50 practical automations that save time, reduce errors, and grow revenue. No coding required.

Automation Isn't Just for Big Companies

With AI-native platforms, any business can automate repetitive tasks in minutes using natural language — no developers needed.

Sales Automations (1-10)

  1. Auto-assign new leads based on territory or round-robin
  2. Send welcome email when a lead is captured
  3. Follow up automatically if no response in 3 days
  4. Score leads based on website behavior and engagement
  5. Alert manager when a high-value deal enters pipeline
  6. Move stale deals to "At Risk" after 14 days of inactivity
  7. Generate proposal from discovery call notes
  8. Send pricing deck when deal moves to "Proposal" stage
  9. Create task for rep when prospect visits pricing page
  10. Weekly pipeline digest email to sales managers

Marketing Automations (11-20)

  1. Drip campaign for new email subscribers
  2. Birthday/anniversary emails with personalized offers
  3. Re-engagement campaign for contacts inactive 90+ days
  4. Post-purchase review request (7 days after delivery)
  5. Abandoned cart recovery sequence (1hr, 24hr, 72hr)
  6. Segment contacts by behavior automatically
  7. A/B test subject lines on every campaign
  8. Social media post scheduling from content calendar
  9. Lead magnet delivery + nurture sequence
  10. Event registration confirmation + reminders

Support Automations (21-30)

  1. Auto-categorize tickets by topic using AI
  2. Route tickets to agents by expertise and availability
  3. Send SLA breach alert 30 minutes before deadline
  4. Auto-respond to common questions with KB articles
  5. Satisfaction survey after ticket resolution
  6. Escalate negative CSAT responses to manager
  7. Create follow-up ticket 30 days after resolution
  8. Tag VIP customers for priority routing
  9. Auto-close tickets with no response after 5 days
  10. Weekly support performance digest

Operations Automations (31-40)

  1. Low stock alerts when inventory hits reorder point
  2. Auto-generate purchase orders from stock alerts
  3. Invoice creation from closed deals
  4. Payment reminder at 7, 14, and 30 days overdue
  5. Expense auto-categorization from bank feed
  6. Monthly financial report generation
  7. Employee onboarding checklist trigger
  8. Contract renewal reminder 60 days before expiry
  9. Time tracking reminder if no entries logged by 5 PM
  10. Project milestone notification to stakeholders

Cross-Functional Automations (41-50)

  1. Customer churns → trigger win-back + alert sales + update forecast
  2. Support ticket from VIP → alert account manager + prioritize
  3. Product return → update inventory + process refund + trigger feedback survey
  4. New customer signed → create project + assign team + send onboarding
  5. Deal lost to competitor → tag in CRM + add to competitive intelligence report
  6. High NPS response → trigger referral request + add to testimonial pipeline
  7. Invoice overdue 30+ days → alert sales rep + pause marketing emails
  8. Website form fill → enrich contact + score lead + assign + notify
  9. Customer upgrades plan → trigger success manager assignment + send welcome
  10. Quarterly business review due → compile data + generate report + schedule meeting

How to Build These in Automo

Automo's natural language automation builder lets you describe any of these in plain English:

"When a deal closes, generate an invoice, assign an onboarding project, and send the welcome email sequence."

The AI handles the rest — no workflow builders, no code, no Zapier.

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