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🗓️ 12 December 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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One of the things Amazon sellers can easily overlook is the issue of liability. Is your product safe? Should it include a choking warning? Is there a risk that you could be sued or that your product could be held liable for harm done to a person or their property? These are not things we like to think about but they are a necessary consideration when you’re building a business. On this episode, Scott is chatting with Michelle Love about the issue of liability insurance, both for your business and to cover your products. You’ll want to hear this one.
Many Amazon sellers who are just getting started have small supplies of their products and very low investment in the business. The thought of purchasing business and product insurance could serve as another reason to quit or not get started at all. But you don’t need to worry about that hurdle yet because Amazon has sales thresholds that you have to meet in order for them to require you to purchase insurance. Do you know what it is? On this episode, you’ll find out and get a lot more advice about insurance for your business from Insurance Agent Michelle Love.
When you are trying to budget for the expense of product and business insurance you really need to have some figures you can start with to ensure you’re going to be able to pay for it when the time comes. But it’s hard to know exactly what you’re going to need to pay because the premiums depend on the specifics of the products you are selling. How risky are they? What dangers might be involved? It’s not an easy issue to unravel without professional help. On this episode, you’re going to be shown exactly how to know when and what insurance you need in order to cover yourself from lawsuits and liability.
Insurance is not the most exciting thing to talk about but if you’re going to run a business you’ve got to make sure you do everything needed to protect yourself and handle any legal claims that may come against you. On this episode Scott is chatting with Michelle Love, an Insurance Professional who is also selling products through Amazon FBA, so she knows the particular issues that Amazon sellers face and can help you navigate the confusion. Find out how you can know the right insurance and the right amounts of it to purchase, on this episode.
The habit we all have when it comes to terms of service is to quickly scroll through and hit “accept.” But that’s a practice that can come back to bite you eventually, especially if you are agreeing to do something in the arrangement - which most terms of service do require. In Amazon’s terms of service, there are requirements on you as an Amazon FBA seller that you buy product liability insurance when you reach a certain sales threshold. Did you know that? More importantly, do you need insurance now? Find out the answer for your situation on this episode of The Amazing Seller.
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0:00.0 | Well hey hey what's up everyone welcome back to another episode of the |
0:06.4 | amazing seller podcast this is episode number 293 and today we're |
0:11.9 | going to be talking about another not so sexy topic and that is |
0:16.6 | product liability insurance and how we can avoid some lawsuits. |
0:23.0 | Hopefully we won't ever get faced with those, |
0:24.8 | but we are going to need to understand |
0:27.2 | kind of like basics about product liability insurance |
0:29.6 | and also just business insurance in general. |
0:31.4 | I think people get those two confused. I know I did |
0:33.5 | in the beginning and I've got a special guest on today. Actually someone that I met at |
0:37.4 | our TAS breakthrough live event. Her name is Michelle Love and she's been in this |
0:41.6 | insurance business for over 20 years now. |
0:44.7 | And like I said, I met her at our live event, had no idea that she was an insurance broker |
0:50.3 | until after we got talking and she was there to build her private label |
0:53.9 | business which she's doing right now as well. So pretty interesting how things |
0:58.0 | happen right and then I said you know what we got to have you on the |
1:00.5 | podcast because you know a lot about this business because you are someone |
1:04.2 | that's a private labeler that also understands the insurance business which I found is really hard to find. |
1:10.4 | So I wanted to pick her brain, I wanted to get some of these questions answered, |
1:14.0 | what you guys will hear, and this way here you guys can have this connection as well. |
1:17.6 | If you guys want to reach out to her, I'll give you her information at the end. |
1:20.3 | But she's going to fill in some of these gaps gaps some of these holes that we might not really understand when it comes to insurance on our business when and |
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