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Old 09-15-2010, 02:55 PM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by richdank321 View Post
You don't just send 5,000,000+ visitors to a random website and then just hope things work out.

You test small, then go big.

If 8,000+ unique visitors (total that was sent now) haven't converted, then that's not a good program. The part that sketched me out was that 78 submits (total) were done for the program, and I got $0, which makes no sense. And their support doesn't answer, which is a red flag as well.
8000 uniques is nowhere near enough to properly gauge the performance of a program. You could make zero signups for the first 8000, then two by 8002.

Putting it another way, I think your friend can afford to send more than 0.16% of one day's traffic to test a new program.
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