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Legal Aspects: Buying & Selling a Business

...depends on the buyer’s financial strength. If the buyer defaults on the loan, the seller seizes and sells the secured assets to pay off the loan. Stock/Membership Interest Sale or Asset Sale Along with financing, the buyer and seller have to choose either an asset sale (including trademarks, copyrigh...

Choosing a NAICS Code for Your Small Business

...license. How do I find my LOB/LOW? Go to https://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/. This link will direct you to the US Census Bureau’s NAICS search engine. Enter the type of business you are doing and choose from the list that comes up. You will want to look through the list of NAICS

Small Business FAQs

...instance, if someone from Wasilla goes online to buy from your website, you will not need to collect taxes for Wasilla. However, if you are in Wasilla, you will need to collect taxes for Wasilla and the borough. Also if you go to Wasilla you would need to register

Choosing A NAICS code

...the Alaska SDBC’s offerings, and to get registered for our free Starting A Business Class, take a look at our website www.AKSBDC.org     Written by Anchorage Business Advisor Allan Carraway...

Is your goal to buy or sell a business?

...might include business tax returns and the ending balance sheet for each year, Profit & Loss Statement (P&L), Cash Flow Statement and a copy of the business plan, if available Be prepared to discuss monetary information Your advisor will need to know how much cash available you have to

‘Buy Alaska’ makes the case for local resiliency, growth (KCAW)

...an-owned businesses is available here! And of course, learn more about BuyAlaska at www.buyalaska.com...

Contact Us

...ve, Suite C Fairbanks, Alaska 99701 Jade Greene, MBA, PHR, SHRM-CP Fairbanks Center Director email | message We’re Hiring! Fairbanks Business Advisor email | message Juneau Center (907) 463-3789 info@aksbdc.org message this office 3030 Vintage Blvd. Suite 100 Juneau, AK 99801 We’re Hiring! Juneau Cen...

Sea Fur Sewing

...ld who can harvest and produce it. By learning to price his fur at the right price point, Sea Fur Sewing honors both the customer and culture. The last two years have allowed Robert to provide his services as an independent contractor and provide fur – hand and machine

BlueWater BaseCamp, LLC

...are interested in learning more about the luxurious comfort at BlueWater BaseCamp, LLC, check out their website at www.bluewaterbasecamp.com or on Facebook and Instagram....

Are you ready to file your business income tax return?

...ments are reconciled and that your account ledger balance for the year ended accurately reflect your company performance for that period. Make sure document support is properly filed – Proper maintenance of accounting document support is important and often overlooked by business owners. Proper maint...

Use Your Website to Build Relationships and Watch Sales Soar

...so it’s a win-win!) Educating is the number one way to add value, gain credibility, earn trust, and a whole host of other elements essential to creating rapport. If your site isn’t a content-rich site full of educational, valuable information (did I mention free), then what the heck are

Opening a Salon in Alaska

Opening a Food Business in Alaska

How to Get Your Invention Funded

...mpanies have won the fewest of any state with only 80 awards since program inception. The next lowest state is West Virginia with 211 and Mississippi with 257. The SBDC TREND (Technology Research and Development of Alaska) recently won a FAST (Federal and State Technology Partnership Program) grant t...

Free Tax Information using Bidawiz

...ble gain on the transfer of $10,000 ($20,000 sale price minus $10,000 adjusted basis) that must be reported as ordinary income from depreciation. You report $10,000 of your $30,000 depreciation as ordinary income on the transfer of the property, so the remaining $20,000 depreciation is carried over t...

BuyAlaska is Back!

...tate. It has never been more important to support buy-local efforts and to make it easy for Alaskans to find and purchase from local vendors. The BuyAlaska webpage at BuyAlaska.com seeks to provide access to statewide small businesses and to educate consumers about the direct benefits of keeping our...

Alaska Row Tours

...e close on the horizon for year two. To learn more about this remarkable entrepreneur, check out his website at www.akrowtours.com and follow them on Instagram....

Blaines Art in Anchorage Closing Black Friday

...on November 28th and post it on any social media site using the hashtag #BuyAlaska. There will be a drawing to give away Buy Alaska swag and gift certificates from the local small business community.   If you’re a business interested in joining our event, please shoot an email

Can Small Businesses Survive on Facebook?

...dIn, Google+, Pinterest and Tumblr. are the top 5 sites after Facebook according to eBizMBA Rank. What works for you will depend on your business and your clients. Businesses with a lot of naturally visual content that people like to share (restaurants, clothing stores, photographers, etc.) do well o...

There’s No Place Like Home (Page)!

...ave evolved, there are other aspects of a good website home page that need to be “aced” before the “cake is iced”. Three important goals of a good marketing home page are to “Greet, Meet, and Treat”. Let me explain… Greet – When someone lands on your home page