Anyone else have a case of the Mondays? If anyone wants to know what it’s like living my day to day life at work, just watch the movie Office Space. Another weekend has come and gone. I was able to squeeze in some web work, but not as much as I was hoping for. The Jaguars looked awful again against the Tampa Bay first team defense. Leftwich just can’t get it done. Don’t be surprised if this is his last year. Sunday, the battery in my car died! I’m just glad I found out yesterday rather than this morning when I left for work. I got angry because stuff like this always happens to me. It seems like lately I can’t catch a break. I was able to go to Wal Mart with my girlfriend and we picked up a new battery for $50… pretty cheap if you ask me. I have a lot of experience installing car batteries, so I was able to put this one in in a matter of minutes.

Well on to the topics you probably read this blog for:

  • New Forum Developments
  • CPA Empire Week 1 Update
  • Forming an LLC
  • Adsense Update

New Forum Developments
Forums are probably the most time consuming and demanding web sites that someone can make. If a website’s subject matter is not an interest of yours, it will be very hard to find the time and will to dedicate in bettering your forum. After reading more of Lee Dodd’s posts about how the forum biz is on the rise… I decided to invest some of the capital I raised into building new forums.

I bought three domains on Friday to build forums from scratch. I am only going to reveal one of them now, because it’s the only one I have set up. The first forum I am going to launch is for the highly anticipated XBox, PS2, and PC video game Phantasy Star Universe. It is the latest installment of the SEGA Phantasy Star Online Series that dates back to the early 1990s. I spent 4 years of my life playing Phantasy Star Online 1 and 2 on Dreamcast and XBox. The game is just sick. I might buy Phantasy Star Universe if I find the time to play it.

Anyways, you can view my Phantasy Star Universe forum at PSUForum.com. You might not get the domain name unless you have played the game. Everyone calls Phantasy Star Online, PSO for short. There are several big PSO forums out there, but I couldn’t find one dedicated to just PSU. This forum will be hard to promote since 1. The game isn’t out yet and 2. Tough competition and 3. It’s a niche that you can’t just advertise for on any webmaster forum.

CPA Empire Week 1 Update
I have now had CPAEmpire on Layout Pimps for 1 full week. The results are not nearly as good as I was hoping, but my account manager told me it’s about trial and error and find out what the visitors like to click on. I made $4.05 in my first week. I was hoping for $10+ considering the traffic I get is nearly 300 uniques a day.

Forming an LLC
One of my best friends from College is an accountant for Price Waterhouse Coopers. I was discussing with him some of the benefits of forming an LLC. I know many of you out there have an Inc or LLC already so this might be boring for you. But anyways, I’m going to research and file the papers this week to become an official business.

Realistically, I probably don’t make enough money online to have an separate business, but there are tax benfits that I am looking for. For example, since I do all my online work at home, I will be able to write off part of my rent, electric bills, internet bills, and even phone bills on my taxes. Having my business pay for these expenses instead of my 40 hour a week job, will allow me to save/invest more of my salaried income. I’ll keep you updated.

Adsense Update
This August marks the first month I have earned $100+ in Adsense in a 1 month period. This is a milestone in my opinion. When I started out making websites back in December I was making maybe $15 a month in Adsense, and now in less than 1 year I have increased my Adsense EPM by almost 700%. Imagine if I could do that every year! It will be interesting to see if I can maintain the progress after my sales of Sonic Wild Fire and Medieval II.

That’s it for now… until tomorrow!