July 21, 2008 – 12:17 pm | by Keith

Just a quick update on what I am doing and how I am moving forward with my online business plans.
The last few days went by so fast that I really didn’t get much done business wise this weekend. I had stayed up really late Thursday night and had to work at 8am Friday, so when I got home from work I crashed. I didn’t wake up until about 11pm, so I hopped online and checked websites and email and went back to sleep.
Saturday I woke up early and went out to eat breakfast with family and then spent the whole day in Des Moines hopping around to a few different places including the mall, Best Buy and the movie theater. You might have guessed, I had to see Dark Knight as soon as possible, so we caught the earliest showing at 12:30 and that pretty much took up a good portion of the day. I came home, relaxed a little bit and then it was time for Affliction and UFC Fight Night.
Sunday has always been a lazy day for me personally. I didn’t wake up until late, ate something, watched some movies and wasted time online. Not very productive and I really need to learn to use Sunday better until I am making some serious money. It’s really not worth wasting that productivity time unless you’re with family and friends. Sitting around doing nothing isn’t acceptable! Once I get things rolling I can go back to Sunday being my ‘day off’…of course if I’m making money I won’t mind working it!
For those wondering, yes Dark Knight is as good as they say for any batman fan at least. Even if you aren’t a big Batman fan you will more than likely enjoy it. It’s a good story and where I have never been a fan of Heath Ledger he really did put an awesome twist on the Joker character. I think a lot of the buzz is because he died, but he truly does do an amazing job in this movie.
Anyways, on the business side I will be launching my forum Zabafoo.com this week. I am shooting for a discussion forum that isn’t niche based which could make things difficult at first. I want a community of many diverse interests and posters rather than a niche forum. I plan to purchase some paid posting one day and then the next launch a Google ad campaign to hopefully ad a lot of members before the paid posting is fulfilled. I will also explore other forms of paid ads and free traffic to supplement these efforts. I have ran a few forums in the past, but at that time I was active on many other forums so attracting members was easy. This is completely new for me to be launching a VERY broad forum and attracting completely new members. It should be a fun and challenging experience.
On the affiliate marketing front I am finding it extremely difficult to allow time to get starting. I am signed up with Never Blue Ads and have browsed offers without anything really calling out to me. I have submitted an application for Market Leverage and hope to get that account verified today. I will continue researching offers on both networks and hope to have something selected for my first ever campaign by the weekend. I will develop my website(s) this weekend and hopefully launch an ad campaign for it starting next week.
Today it’s back to business. I will be be getting my Market Leverage account verified tonight and continue researching offers. Tomorrow I will start gathering keywords for my forum campaign for it’s launch this week.