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Do you use a vehicle for your business? If so, have you looked at mileage rate the IRS has established for deducting that travel on your taxes? If not, have a look. The new rates are out for 2015. Share this link with a friend or on your website and help spread the word! Read More

If you're planning on starting a blog for your business, here are 25 platforms -- including WordPress -- to choose from. This post includes descriptions of each and links to get you started. Both free and paid options are available. Do you know of a blog platform we've missed? Please feel free to s Read More

BizSugar contributor Stuart Davidson talks about how he got his start in business -- by involvement with online poker, of all things! Davidson has gone on to found a freelance marketing business, a web design business, and a professional blog. Learn more about his efforts this week on the BizSugar Read More

Each morning at Ninja Cow Farm in North Carolina, farmer Dan Moore moves his cows from temporary paddocks into the farm’s pasture. He then sits in the pasture with the cows before it’s time for him to go to work. It’s a pretty normal scene for a morning on a farm, except for one thing – he’s actual Read More

Saks Fifth Avenue is bent out of shape about perceived brand infringement...Snaks Fifth Avenchew is a punny name. The company, which sells treats for dogs and horses, clearly chose its name as a spoof of the famous luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue. But Saks doesn’t think the name is funny at all. Read More

For many of you, online advertising drives a big chunk of your sales. So we’ve asked Sheri Firstenberg, Adwords Queen with Ripen eCommerce, to help guide you to the best ways to use Google Adwords advertising and avoid common Adwords mistakes... Read More

For Derek Halpern, founder of Social Triggers, email marketing is most important. Here Halpern talks to Bryan Elliot of Behind the Brand about the importance of building an email list and the best ways to use email to develop more leads. Read More

If you're a small merchant selling big brand items on Amazon, watch out. An agreement Amazon has with Levi's is cutting out other Amazon merchants who sell Levi's brand apparel, says research from business intelligence subscription service L2. In fact, L2 even tried to set up a merchant account to Read More

Mike Stenger of MikeStenger.com gives this basic overview of Login with Amazon. Introduced last year, the option allows customers to buy from your eCommerce store using the same Amazon log-in as customers do when logging in directly to Amazon's main site. Stenger argues that Amazon's brand and the Read More

Shopify may be one of the most popular services for creating an eCommerce store available today. If you want to create an eCommerce store to sell your products and have no programming experience this can be one DIY option. Here Ryan Bowman of Web Eminence gives you an overview and step by step guid Read More