Commenting slides easily into activity for its own sake: comments written, counter rising, outcome unknown. Here is what can honestly be measured.
What is measurable
Clicks to the profile
Not directly visible, but its consequence is: the link in the profile can be unique to the commenting accounts, so clicks through it are attributable — tracking traffic and what to put in a profile.
Subscriptions from that link
Separate invite links make this exact rather than inferred.
Enquiries that mention it
The crudest and most reliable method: ask. "Where did you find us" answered in a chat beats most analytics on Telegram.
What is not measurable
How many people read your comment and did nothing yet. Comment work has a delay: someone sees you three times over two weeks and writes on the third. Attributing that to the last comment is wrong, and attributing it to nothing is worse.
Which is why the honest reporting interval here is a month, not a day — measuring results.
The comparison that decides
Cost per enquiry, with your own hours priced in. Commenting is cheap in money and expensive in attention; without the second half of that sum the comparison with paid posts is meaningless — traffic vs paid ads.
When the number says stop
If a month of consistent, timely, on-topic commenting in a properly checked channel list produces nothing, the problem is upstream: the list, the profile or the offer. More comments will not fix it — how many channels you need.
How Neurogram does this
Everything above is manual work that runs into the number of hours in a day. Neurogram does it on your own accounts and without you: it collects channels and audiences, writes comments and replies with a language model, and keeps limits and quiet hours so the accounts survive. See pricing or look at your case.