How many pageviews should my blog be getting? How many followers should I have on Twitter? What retweet percentage should I be shooting for? All of these are good metrics to take a look at, but without a goal in mind, you may find yourself running in circles.
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Pageviews, visits, unique visitors, followers, etc. are all great ways to measure success online, but what about actions that don’t lead directly to a conversion or lead (but probably will down the line)? How do you measure actions that may lead to something important later, but there’s not a direct connection online? Assigning a value to those actions may help…