Want to automate my textile manufacturing E-commerce. Looking for advice. Especially Instagram.
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I have a small textile/fabric manufacturing setup. Mostly B2B clientale. However, recently I have been looking up boutiques, designers in different cities on google maps, and pasting an introduction on whatsapp. If I message like 20-30 leads within the hour, whatsapp Business Account suspends me for a day.
Recently came across Instagram, a lot more folks are on there, simply because anyone on Google Maps/Google listed needs a mandatory physical location verification, including company registration details.
I have noticed that a lot more designers are on IG, as they work out of their home. I keep scrolling reels, and whoever seems like I could supply them, I message them. Its been a tough, time-consuming, boring process. I wanted to understand if there is anyway to leverage technology to make this happen faster, or in a much more systematic way.
I want a way to identify leads from the internet, may that be google maps, or IG, and introduce them to my business, without doing it manually.
If I do make some money selling online, I would eventually invest resources setup a website or run some marketing. So far I only have an Instagram business account with a very non pro marketing like appearance, and a standard Whatsapp Business Account.
Off-course I am also now self-learning programming, in case if this paves direction for me to develop this on my own. Would really appreciate the help.
Ethancole_dev@reddit
Honestly the hardest part here is Instagram — their anti-bot detection is no joke. I'd split this into two phases:
Zapier/Make are fine for simple stuff, but if you're already coding Python, a small FastAPI backend + a cron job to drip-send messages gives you way more control and zero monthly fees.
What's your current stack — are you coding this yourself or looking for no-code tools?