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Sep 16, 2026 · analytics · playbook · 1 min read

Which post sent people to your product? Views won't tell you.

SAME WEEK · SAME PRODUCT · TWO POSTS (ILLUSTRATIVE NUMBERS)“POV: you finally fixed onboarding”VIEWS12,400CLICKS TO YOUR PRODUCT3manfriday.app/l/qp2k8t4 → yourapp.com?utm_source=…“Shipped 11 months, 43 signups. Then…”VIEWS1,900CLICKS TO YOUR PRODUCT41manfriday.app/l/qp2k8t4 → yourapp.com?utm_source=…this one paidViews are the platform's number. Clicks are yours. Only one of them tells you what to make next.
Two posts, same week. Illustrative numbers. The one with a sixth of the views sent thirteen times the visitors.

12,400

views on the post you screenshot

3

clicks it sent

1,900

views on the quiet one

41

clicks it sent

  • You don't sell attention. A video can only do one thing for you: send someone to a page where they can buy.
  • Every post gets its own short link in the caption. One tap, one logged click, then straight to your site with UTM tags.
  • Link-preview crawlers are filtered out. What is left is intent.
Kept (swipe)cheap to fakePublishedtable stakesViewsthe platform's KPIWatch-throughcloserClick to productbankable
Five signals, weakest to strongest. Optimise for the top rung.

1

number per post that matters

7 days

per learning loop

4 loops

to know your audience

The loop: post, wait a week, read clicks, keep more of what clicked. Friday's Analytics shows clicks first and views last. Nothing that makes you feel busy.

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