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I don't believe in New Year's resolutions. I think they're silly. They usually last about as long as a bowl of ice cream in August. I'd much rather create my year. This is a talk about just that that I recently gave to my private mentoring group. I thought it was good enough that I decided to share it with everyone. In it, I talk about creating your year. The basic format is: Look into December of this year, 2015, and decide what you want to have done, seen and accomplished. I have several areas to look at: Business - what you want to have achieved in business growth and product development. (If you're a writer or artist, what you want to have created.) Income - related to business - what your income from business, art and any passive, recurring sources Relationships - there are three main areas: Family - if you have any family members with whom you don't have the best relationship, how will those look by the end of the year? Friends - Do you have friends you want to strengthen your relationship to? Do you have toxic friends you want to cut ties with? Are there any people you want to become friends with? Business - look at your current business relationship and ask the same questions as with friends. Especially, are there any people you want to meet and possibly work with? Health - how will your health improve? Spiritual - this can mean your religious practice, but for me, it means my meditative time, the ease at which I can calm myself in a difficult situation, etc. Environment - your home, your neighborhood, your job Fun - most forget this one. If you don't have any fun, what's the point? What do you want to do this year? Where do you want to go? Once you have seen what each of these areas look like next December, look at the tasks you must accomplish to make them happen. Separate those tasks into what will need to be done each month for the next 12 months, then put them on your calendar. And, when you put them on the calendar, don't do them as "tasks". Do them as appointments that have a starting and ending time. It is easier to ignore a task than an appointment. Listen to the audio below for more details and Happy New Year! (If you're interested in finding out about or joining my private mentoring group, you can do so HERE.)

In this week's podcast, we talk about short reports. Short reports are a powerful way to create good will, to get more followers, to be known as an expert and much more. Yes, this is more of the marketing part of having an online presence than the tech part, but I do also talk about how to put one together and how to get it on your site.

Everyone is talking about Kindle!  On this week's podcast, we talk about publishing on Kindle, why you would want to, how you can create a book to put on kindle, formatting the cover and the book so that it will work on kindle, and even a bit about how to market it once it's there.

In today's podcast, we talk about how to add video to your WordPress posts and pages. We deal with both videos from YouTube (your own or other people's) and your own videos hosted either on your own site or one of the cloud services like Amazon S3.

In this short episode, I talk about simple ways to record and edit audio for your products and podcasts. Recording and editing sound can be very easy with a couple of free tools.

On this podcast episode we discuss how to edit your images:  the easiest way to re-size, crop and edit images to put on your websites. At the end I get a little techy, but for the most part, this is a very easy task that you can do with a great free resource on the Internet.

One of the questions I get a lot in my computer business is, "How do I store and deliver my video sessions for my products?" In today's podcast, I talk about how to store all those large audio and video files you need for your courses, products and services. Amazon S3 is a wonderful "cloud" service that allows you to store them painlessly without slowing down your own web server or using up all your hosting space.

In this week's podcast, we look at domain names and tell you pretty much everything you need to know about them. They aren't sexy, but they are the backbone of the Internet, the way people find you, how you are remembered and a whole bunch of other great stuff. So, if you've ever wondered, "Just what the heck IS a domain name, anyway?" listen in and find out everything you always wanted to know about them but were afraid to ask!

  Today's podcast subject is decidedly unsexy, but very important if you want to have an online presence: Keywords. In this podcast, I discuss what they are, why you need to know about them, how to find them and how to use them.

Everyone is talking about Kindle publishing. I love Kindle, but let's talk about publishing actual, physical books with actual pages. They are still good to have in your arsenal! In this podcast, I tell you exactly how to write, then format your book for Amazon's CreateSpace service. It's really easy. Remember, don't fear the tech!

Welcome to Geoff Hoff Online PodCasts. In these episodes, we will talk about your online presence - for yourself and your business - and deal with all things web business and web tech. For my very first podcast, I thought it would be fun (and a little ironic) to talk about podcasts! Please spend the next 12 minutes with me and learn why you, too, should have your very own podcast and how easy it is to set up and do!