EP46 – Why the BORING Work Gives You the Edge

A prospect I was chasing chose a cheaper alternative. We were close to the next step, and it came at a time when I really needed a paying client.

This one is just me. I'm building a new client pipeline for Itqan Studio, which means lead identification, reaching out to people by hand and commenting on their content. This episode is what that rejection taught me: why I don't send AI-generated outreach, what the boring work actually is, what one prospect taught me about why people archive messages that sell to them straight away, and why building rapport comes before any pitch. LinkedIn is a networking platform, and a lot of people on it aren't networking. They're pitch slapping, as Jasmin Alić calls it.

Then I bring it back to the Quranic compass I build my content on. The Prophet ﷺ said:
إن الله كتب الإحسان على كل شيء
Allah has prescribed excellence in everything (Sahih Muslim 1955). I talk about what that means for the way we do outreach.

Chapters
0:00 Cold open
0:21 The Barakah Blueprint intro
1:21 Who I am and why this podcast
3:13 Lessons from rejection
4:14 The boring work
5:33 Rapport over pitch slapping
8:07 The Quranic compass: excellence
9:53 Closing and Barakah Builders

Mentioned in this episode
EP 41 with Jasmin Alić: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLuNtosf8sI
Sahih Muslim 1955: https://sunnah.com/muslim:1955a

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