PAID TRAFFIC - Anyone has some hard statisctics

Let's say I buy a solo ad at $0,40 per click, 1000 clicks, so $400 spend.

Get an optin of let's say 40% according to how they advertise it (I highly doubt that but well).

So we end up with 400 subscribers.

We follow up with an email series written by a professional copywriter to get the highest converting rates.

What should we expect in the MMO niche when we offer a cheap $5 trial from a famous high converting program?

How many people would convert into the full version when the trial ends.

What is the life value of a subscriber? How many follow up orders will they place?

I know these questions are a bit general.

In other words what I actually like to ask is, are solo ads profitable or is it a waste of money?

How much time should I expect to turn an positive ROI?

Is it realistic to make my money back in the first few weeks or do I really need to include the lifetime value of the subscriber in the calculation or otherwise it will for sure be a losing strategy?

Are these methods based on catching buy-sick people on your list and do you pull most of your value from these and without them it's doomed to fail? (in other words you need large samples as when the numbers go up you automatically end up with a few of such people).

Any idea about conversion rates? Say I buy 1000 solo clicks, would it convert at a clickbank rate of 0,2-0,5% when sending them from a website instead of using solo ads, or should we expect better conversion rates from solo ads and the follow up series after they subscribed to our list.

How does direct traffic compare to email list traffic in terms of conversions? Maybe that's a better phrased question to answer?

How much would you comfortably spend to get 1 person on your MMO list? $0,50? $1,-? Less?

No PM's from people who aim to sell coaching please.