30 Days Later

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A new site launched yesterday to help affiliates with their campaigns. It’s called Destination Unknown and has been set up by two guys I know from Wealthy Affiliate, Dave B and Thad. It seems to be like a budget version of Immediate Edge. Each month they guys set up a campaign and take you though every step, explain what they’re doing, SHOW you what they’re doing (Google ads, websites, keyphrases etc) and then publish the results when it’s done.

‘Oh no, not another blog plugging his mates scheme for a commission’ I hear you cry.

Well, yes and no. First off, there’s no affiliate scheme, so won’t be making any money out of it.

Second, it’s limited to 200 members so you need to get in quick. Third, they’ve reduced the price to $47 a month.

And fourth, I joined yesterday.

I must admit, the site isn’t brilliant, and I’m not keen on the blog like structure, because the comments are backwards. They’ve set up and run two campaigns to there was some content there for us and it was difficult working through the comments they left each other on the blog. I had to start from the last page and work backwards. There should be a forum for that. It was only when I downloaded the PDFs they’d produced for each campaign that I found the comments were in there, the right way round.

What impresses me both is that these two guys are relatively new at this. Thad started affiliate marketing in July 2006 and quit his job a year later. It gives you inspiration to motivate yourself and do well. Well, it did me. I’ve ‘known’ Thad since January 2007 when I joined WA, and I thought he’d been doing it a lot longer.

But what about the campaigns? Well, both the campaigns were Google Adwords. One of them made an amazing 998% ROI! It had a CTR ratio of 5.75% and an actual conversion rate of 60%. The other had a higher CPC so the ROI was lower at 157%, but had a conversion rate of 76%! When was the last time you had success like that?

I’m off to do some research!