Week 9 Update

Last Updated on November 24, 2025 by Jeremy

Week 9 of the Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp was all about turning creativity into testable data. The official topic was “Leveraging Success Stories and Building Black Friday Ads,” but in practice it became the week where I pushed my Facebook ads harder, leaned into community proof, and watched my site analytics start to reflect all of that work.

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Quick Week 9 Snapshot

Theme: Creativity first, then more ad testing.
Shared a Wealthy Affiliate success roundup as my Week 9 “proof post” and boosted it at $2/day.
Hit my highest click count inside WA so far with a steady upward trend over the week.
Best-performing ad: “real people, real results” success-story ad with ~356 landing page views at about $0.03 per landing page view.
Page likes/followers on the From 0 to 100K Facebook page grew from 41 → 52.
GA showed 461 active users this week and 1,440 page views over the last 28 days, led by my Affiliate Marketing Trends article.
Published two new blog posts and filmed my first full on-screen YouTube video.
Got featured in Jay’s Facebook Page Hotseat and took away more ideas for future testing.

1. Week 9 Bootcamp Tasks – What I Actually Did

Task 1: Share a Wealthy Affiliate Success Story

Instead of focusing on just one success story (like Jay’s – featured below), I went with a bigger picture: I shared a roundup of 29 Wealthy Affiliate success stories compiled by Roope. My logic was simple: there are a lot proven wins inside WA, so why highlight only one?

I shared this roundup on my From 0 to 100K Facebook business page using my affiliate link with a custom tracking ID, and then boosted it as a website-visitors campaign at $2/day.

Task 2: Create Context Around the Success Post

Instead of dumping a link and hoping for clicks, I wrote a short story-style caption about why these case studies matter. I talked about:

The “I almost quit before it took off” moments that so many online business owners relate to.
How I personally use these stories as proof that the work compounds, even when you can’t see it yet.
An open-ended question: “If you stick with this, what’s YOUR version of success?”

That question turned the post from “just another ad” into an invitation for people to define their own finish line.

Task 3: Engage with the Community

On the WA side, I:

Shared my Black Friday image set in the Week 9 class thread and invited others to use them.
Got feedback and encouragement from other members (including Kyle) on the designs.
Commented on several members’ posts and ads – not with robotic “nice job” replies, but actual thoughts on their angles and hooks.

On Facebook, the success-story post didn’t explode with comments yet (Kyle was the main highlight there), but it did exactly what I needed: drive cheap, targeted traffic to WA.

Task 4: Build Creative Ad Bases in Image Studio

In Image Studio, I continued building out my library of logo-based Black Friday concepts using both the WA logo and my 0to100K branding:

High-tech, futuristic grids and neon styles.
More subtle, minimal “reverse psychology” concepts.
Clean, practical designs that look like real ads, not just eye candy.

The big shift this week was thinking in sets of creatives, not just “one good ad image.” I wanted a toolbox I can keep pulling from during Black Friday and beyond.

Task 5: Turn a Base Into a Black Friday Ad

From those base designs, I turned several into full Black Friday ads highlighting the core Wealthy Affiliate offer:

Premium Plus+ Annual at $497.
Massive AI credit bundle and Image Studio access.
New AI-driven Jaaxy and logo designer tools.

I ran them as boosted posts and website visitor ads in the $2–$7/day range, each tied to my WA affiliate link.

Task 6: Compare Image vs. Text Ads

This week, I didn’t run a purely text-only ad in the traditional sense, but I did test:

High-production, futuristic creatives.
Simple, stripped-back ads like a yellow sticky note style with hand-written text.
The “real people, real numbers” success-story image vs. the more conceptual designs.

Result: the cleaner, more grounded creatives won on cost and clicks. The yellow sticky-note ad and the success-story ad outperformed some of the more dramatic designs.

Task 7: Share Results & Support Others

Inside the Week 9 WA classroom I:

Posted my image set for other members to borrow.
Shared the link to my success-story post and ad.
Jumped into discussions where people were troubleshooting ad rejections and creative angles.

This week reinforced that Bootcamp isn’t just “training modules,” it’s a live community lab where everyone’s testing in real time.

2. One of the Standout Ads: The “Sticky Note” Reminder

One of the more surprising winners this week was a simple yellow sticky-note style ad. No smoke, no neon, no fake jets – just a clear message and a visual that looks like something you’d actually find on your desk.

This post reinforced a pattern I keep seeing: the more honest and grounded the creative feels, the cheaper the traffic becomes.

3. How the Black Friday Ads Performed This Week

Success-Story Ad: “Real People, Real Numbers”

The boosted success-story post – “Real people. Real numbers.” – was one of the workhorses this week.

Budget: ~$2/day, website visitors objective.
Reach: about 65,000+ people.
Landing Page Views: roughly 356.
Cost per Landing Page View: about $0.03.

It didn’t rack up a ton of comments yet, but it did exactly what I needed: quietly moved a lot of targeted, curious people onto the success-story page and then into WA.

Other Black Friday Ad Variations

The rest of the Black Friday ads covered a mix of concepts:

High-contrast, futuristic “data” style creatives.
Soft, minimalist reverse-psychology styles (like white walls and subtle copy).
Different angles around “waiting for the right time” vs. “starting with $500.”

Across the board, most of these sat in the $0.03–$0.10 range per landing page view or click, which is solid for this stage of testing. I didn’t pause anything yet, because almost every ad is still well within my “good test” range.

Wealthy Affiliate Click Spike

Inside my WA stats, this week delivered my highest click count so far:

4,683 total clicks across the week.
No referrals or upgrades yet from this specific burst, but that’s normal at this stage.

Right now the focus is on buying data: dial in the audiences, creatives, and landing pages so that when conversions start, they’re consistent rather than lucky.

4. Website Analytics – What Happened On-Site

Over in Google Analytics, Week 9 continued the trend of healthy, steady growth for From0to100K.com.

Last 7 Days (GA Overview)

Active Users: 461 (up around 5–6%).
New Users: 457 (also up around 5–6%).
Traffic is still heavily skewed to mobile, and visitors are coming from multiple regions thanks to the ad targeting.

5. New Content Published This Week

1) How to Invest $500 in Affiliate Marketing (Beginner Blueprint for 2025)

This article breaks down how a brand-new beginner could allocate a $500 starting budget without blowing it on the wrong tools. I cover things like training, domain/hosting, essential software, and where paid ads can (and shouldn’t) fit into that first investment.

Read it here:
How to Invest $500 in Affiliate Marketing – Beginner Blueprint for 2025

2) BigVu Maker Review (Why I Use It)

I also published a full review of BigVu Maker, the video tool I’m using for my content creation workflow. The review doesn’t just list features – it shows how I’m actually using it for Bootcamp content, ad creatives, and YouTube.

Read it here:
BigVu Maker for Content Creators – Full Review, Real Tests, and Why I Use It

3) First Full On-Screen YouTube Video

Week 9 also included a personal milestone: I filmed and published my first full on-screen YouTube video for the 0to100K brand. No hiding behind slides, just me on camera walking through the process.

Going on-camera is part of the long-term plan here: I want people to see the real person behind the case studies, ads, and bootcamp updates.

6. Community, Coaching, and the Hotseat with Jay

One of the highlights of Week 9 was jumping into a Facebook Page Hotseat class with Jay. He reviewed my From 0 to 100K page live, gave direct feedback on my approach, and featured my page alongside other members.

If you want to watch that session (and the rest of the social media scaling series), you can find it here:

Leveraging Wealthy Affiliate’s Training Modules – Social Media & Scaling Series (Jay’s Class)

Between that hotseat and the Week 9 Bootcamp lesson, the theme kept coming back to the same idea: WA isn’t just training, it’s a live lab with people testing ideas side-by-side.

7. What I’m Testing Next (Weeks 10–12 Preview)

Week 9 was “The week where creativity became the focus and more ad testing,” but the next few Bootcamp lessons are going to push things even deeper:

Week 10 – Numbers that Matter: Affiliate Math and ROI
Time to zoom in on real return-on-ad-spend, not just cheap clicks and nice graphs.
Week 11 – Facebook Ads: Scaling Winners and Getting Creative
Taking the ads that are already working (like the success-story ad and sticky-note concept) and seeing how far they can go.
Week 12 – Points, Community Content, and Earnings
Tying together WA community activity, content output, and the earnings model behind all of this.

For now, the plan is simple:

Keep feeding the best-performing creatives more budget (within reason).
Continue building out articles and videos that match the ad angles.
Use WA’s training and community to tighten the gap between clicks and referrals.

If you want to follow along — or start your own version of this experiment — you can hop into Wealthy Affiliate using my referral link here:

Start Your Own 0 to 100K Journey Inside Wealthy Affiliate

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2 responses to “Week 9 Update”

November 27, 2025

S.J

Which ad style have you found drives the most engagement: high-production visuals or simpler, grounded designs?
When sharing success stories, do you highlight one example or compile multiple case studies? What resonates more with your audience?
For newcomers using a small budget ($2–$5/day), how do you prioritise testing multiple ad creatives vs. focusing on scaling one winner?

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1. November 27, 2025
  
  Jeremy
  
  S.J, really good questions.
  
  For me, simpler, grounded creatives usually win. The high-production stuff looks great, but the ads that feel like a real person with a real problem tend to get more clicks and better comments. Things like a sticky note, an alarm clock, or a calm workspace with one strong line of text are working better than glossy “agency” style visuals.
  
  On success stories, I’ve found that one clear, specific example lands harder than a pile of case studies. I might mention that there are many others, but I usually go deep on one person or one result so the reader can actually see themselves in that story.
  
  For small budgets like 2–5 dollars a day, I’d start with a tiny test matrix: 2–3 different creatives, same audience, same copy style. Let it run long enough to see a pattern, then cut the weak ones and push the small budget into the clear winner. So it’s not “test everything” or “only scale one ad” – it’s test a few, find the strongest signal, then feed that one.
  
  Appreciate you taking the time to dig into this.
  
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Week 9 Update

Quick Week 9 Snapshot

1. Week 9 Bootcamp Tasks – What I Actually Did

Task 1: Share a Wealthy Affiliate Success Story