66: Leveraging COVID and Other Timely Trends to Build Wealth With John Berlingieri | Bigger Pockets Podcast

Are you looking for some motivation on how to make money during this pandemic?
If so, this episode is for you!
John Berlingieri -- serial entrepreneur and creator of The Sanitizing Station -- tells us about how he was able to go from idea to getting sales in two months on a $20,000 product aimed at helping to protect people from Covid infection. And how he was able to overcome all the complexities of doing so during the pandemic, while supply chains were shut down and in-person workers were scarce.
In this episode, John provides tons of great tips on everything from naming your business and products to getting publicity for your business to “faking it until you make it” when working on BIG ideas. John also discusses how to design, prototype and build FAST when getting to market quickly is the one of the most important aspects of success.
Make sure you listen for John’s amazing tip on what you should be reading to find lucrative business ideas, to keep up on business trends and to ensure that you beat your competition to market.
Check him out, and subscribe to the BiggerPockets Business Podcast so you won’t miss our next show!
In This Episode We Cover:

How John started a manufacturing company at age 21

Adapting and finding opportunities right away

How he works with local companies and gives discounts to get sales

How he hires multiple virtual assistants for fast deployment

Why he reads lots of news

How he markets his products

From idea to a working product in less than two months

How they got their first customer

Cost for manufacturing machines

How they crafted the name of the company

How he pivoted and made quick decisions

How he obtained publicity

And SO much more!

Links from the Show

BiggerPockets

E-bay

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Amazon

Fiverr

Upwork

Aljazeera

News12

CBS

ABC

Univision

Drudge Report

RT

BBC

Reuters

CNN

Fox

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