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Let’s face it — we’d prefer to do business with people who are happy doing the work they do.  Whether it’s the shoeshine guy who whistles while he works or the accountant who gets giddy at the idea of saving you some money on your taxes — people who love their work are more enjoyable to work with.

I was flying home this week after a conference and walked by this Southwest Airlines gate. Who wouldn’t want to fly with them?

So ask yourself a few questions to see if you exude that kind of passion for your profession:

1. Do you love what you do?
2. Do you love who you do it for?
3. Do they love what you do?

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I just came across this article, , on SmartMoney.com.  It gives a good overview of what an executor is responsible for from a tax perspective, but is by no means exhaustive.  Since Executors can be personally liable for certain tax penalties, they should make sure to engage an experienced tax attorney or CPA to ensure that everything is done timely and correctly.

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I love it when my daughter scowls at me disapprovingly as I sing along to one of her latest pop tracks and know all the words, right down to the chorus. She’s disgusted, and that’s putting it mildly! She doesn’t realise that many of the songs produced today are cover tracks cleverly disguised behind modern rap beats and rehashed as ‘new’ pieces of work. It just goes to show that the old stuff still works. Equally amusing is the fun one has at the dreaded Karaoke nights in the local pub. Some of the voices on display are shockingly bad; fuelled on by too mmuch booze, the soldier on in waves of undeterred confidence.

Nothing beats some of the classic sounds of music’s history, 50′s, 60′s, 70′s, right up to today.

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Attempts to legislate against online piracy and copyright infringement in the US have triggered an angry response from some of the world’s largest web portals and services. Wikipedia, WordPress, Reddit and the business news site Cheezburger are just some of the major web sites that have blacked out for 24 hours in protest against the anti-piracy and anti-infringement bills, known as Sopa and Pipa that are being considered by the US Congress.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) bill from the House of Representatives and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) from the Senate aim to stop websites using and circulating unauthorised copyright materials.

Opponents to these bills include many of the web’s founding fathers who say they built their businesses on a free web and fear legislating against content will begin a process of censorship that will damage free access to information for generations to come.

Under these bills, copyright owners would be allowed to apply for court orders to force websites associated with piracy to close down. Fur

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business columnist Steven Strauss told listeners on this week’s Business Next radio show how to avoid the top seven small business website mistakes. 
 

Click here to listen to the entire Strauss interview.

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