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Located in Liverpool City Center, Hard Days Night Hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Liverpool ONE and within 15 minutes of other popular attractions like Merseyside Maritime Museum. This 110-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant and a bar/lounge, along with free in-room WiFi. It's in central Liverpool and also a short walk from St. George's Hall and World Museum Liverpool.

Explore the hotel and meet new friends over drinks at the bar/lounge, or enjoy a bite to eat at the onsite restaurant. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with 24-hour room service. For your convenience, breakfast is available for a fee.

All of Hard Days Night Hotel's 110 air-conditioned rooms provide coffee makers, free newspapers, and free bottled water. Guests can enjoy satellite TV and stay connected with free WiFi. Bathrooms offer deep soaking tubs, hair dryers, and designer toiletries. Safes, phones, and ironing boards are also available.

Property features

Hard Days Night Hotel features free WiFi in public areas, 4 meeting rooms, and conference space. Valet parking is available for GBP 22 per day, and there's also limo/town car service. The front desk is staffed 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out.

  • Walking distance to Liverpool ONE and Merseyside Maritime Museum
  • Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
  • Onsite dining
  • Business center

Hotel Amenities

Hotel Amenities

Hard Days Night Hotel, inspired by The Beatles, includes a restaurant and 3 bars. Guests can enjoy classic British cuisine, such as slow braised pork belly with fondant potato, at Blakes Restaurant, where wall-to wall Beatles art is on display. A variety of drinks are served at Bar Four, The Lounge & Bar, and Live Lounge.

This Liverpool hotel features conference room, banquet facilities, as well as audio-visual equipment, and complimentary wireless Internet access in public areas. Services at the concierge desk include assistance with tours, currency exchange, and wedding services. The front desk is open 24 hours. The lobby includes a TV, and a gift shop is on site. Limo/town car service, airport shuttle and valet parking are offered(surcharge).

Hard Days Night is a smoke free hotel.

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Total number of rooms - 110
  • Number of floors - 5
  • Bar/lounge
  • Year Built 1884
  • Concierge services
  • Conference space
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Elevator/lift
  • Express check-in
  • Express check-out
  • Gift shops or newsstand
  • Free WiFi
  • Luggage storage
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Business center
  • Laundry facilities
  • Limo or Town Car service available
  • Meeting rooms 4
  • Valet parking (surcharge)
  • Porter/bellhop
  • Restaurant
  • Shopping on site
  • Smoke-free property
  • Breakfast available (surcharge) buffet
  • Television in common areas
  • Wedding services

Available in all rooms: Free WiFi

Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Valet parking (surcharge)

Room Amenities

  • Premium TV channels
  • Pay movies
  • Air conditioning
  • In-room climate control (air conditioning)
  • Phone
  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Free bottled water
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Designer toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Deep soaking bathtub
  • Shower/tub combination
  • Satellite TV service
  • Iron/ironing board
  • In-room safe
  • Desk
  • Free WiFi
  • Free newspaper
  • Room service (24 hours)
  • Connecting/adjoining rooms available

Where to Eat

Blakes Restaurant - Serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Classic British dishes; local and organic produce, and wall-to-wall Beatles art.

Bar Four - Cocktail bar serving cocktails, beers, wines, and spirits. Wood paneled walls, leather arm chairs, and Italian marble. Oil paintings by Paul Ygartua, who attended Liverpool Art College with John Lennon.

The Lounge & Bar - Serves hot breakfast items, salads, and sandwiches. Offers afternoon tea. Open morning to late evening.

Live Lounge - Serves cocktails. Playlists include current hits and covers of the Beatles’ top hits. Live acoustic performances Friday and Saturday evenings.

Nearby Things to Do

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.

  • Golfing nearby
  • Rafting nearby
  • Sailing nearby
  • Bicycle rentals nearby
  • Hiking/biking trails nearby

If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.

  • Accessible bathroom

Hotel Policies

Check-in time ends at midnight

Check-in time starts at 2 PM

Check-out time is 11 AM

Payment types

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.

  • Pets not allowed

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.

No rollaway/extra beds available

No cribs (infant beds) available

The charges below are included in your overall room price:
  • Resort fee
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.

Optional extras

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
  • Breakfast fee: GBP 15.95 per person (approximately)
  • Valet parking fee: GBP 22 per day
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Hotel Name

  • Hard Days Hotel
  • Hard Days Night Hotel
  • Hard Days Night Hotel Liverpool
  • Hard Days Night Liverpool
  • Hard Night Hotel
  • Hotel Hard Days Night

We should mention

A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.

Awards & Affiliations

Green / Sustainable Property
This property participates in Green Tourism Program, a program that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy.

Christmas Promotion

A complimentary breakfast is included for guests staying from 19th December 2008 to 30th December 2008.

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Joshua NelkeHydrogen fuel cells can be used in a wide range of environments such as use in homes, ships, cranes and vehicles. Still, current funding is directed mostly to the transportation sector to be reduce pollution. In this article, we will focus on one of the most exciting uses for fuel cells: a Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV). A ZEV is a common term used today for any application that is typically propelled by an internal combustion engine (ICE) but is now propelled by an alternative emission-free source. An ICE uses conventional fuel, such as diesel or gasoline, which creates harmful emissions. Unlike an ICE, a ZEV uses another method or fuel, such as hydrogen in a fuel cell, which creates an emission of only water. A hydrogen fuel cell has certain advantages over its alternative, a pure battery vehicle. A battery carries only so much charge and as such has a limited range.

It is important to clear up any confusion with terms related to energy efficient vehicles. Intoday’s “green initiative” world, the term hybrid is thrown around quite a bit. A hybrid vehicle uses two or more power sources for operation. In most cases this means the use of an ICE and energy storage, such as a battery pack or ultra-capacitor. These come in two flavors commonly referred to as series and parallel. The difference depends on how the propulsion system drives the axle. Building on this we have Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) or Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) which depend on the combination of battery and engine. In this article we will focus on the zero emission arena where common terms may be Pure Electric Vehicle (PEV) or the previously mentioned ZEV (which can also be considered hybrid since it normally consists of a hydrogen fuel cell and a battery/ultra-capacitor).

When thinking about hybrids, California often comes to mind with its many hybrid cars and strict environmental regulations. As a result of its large populations, spread out cities and climate patterns that trap pollution, California has been at the forefront of air pollution reduction measures. Not surprisingly, much green technology is developed in California. In the United States, the majority of the Siemens hybrid technology (ELFA) is integrated and used today in California. This drive to reduce pollution is not simply confined to cars, trucks and buses. For example, the Port of Los Angeles is one of the nation’s busiest ports. Currently, there are many applications being developed to make this a “zero emission zone.” In order to make this a reality, all ships, trucks, cranes, etc need to be converted to pure electric power. Because of the long duty cycle, such as a semi driving from the port to a distribution center 24 hours a day, a battery version would need to be charged or changed out frequently to keep the vehicle running. This results from a limited amount of energy that a battery can hold before it needs to be charged again. In a car, the small battery that runs all the accessories and starts your car is charged by the alternator, if it is operating correctly of course. Because of this limitation, the hydrogen fuel cell is a better solution. This fuel cell simply runs on hydrogen and oxygen but emits only water.

While this sounds ideal, there are challenges that must be addressed. Hydrogen fuel cells are a new technology with current small production volumes that can lead to high costs. More investment needs to be made into the infrastructure to support fuel cell manufacturing and development.

The graph in Figure 1 has every possible combination for an electric vehicle, but we will concentrate on the yellow section for the fuel cell. As you move from the right of the graph which shows 100 percent fuel cell usage to the left which is 100 percent energy storage, there is a mix of fuel cell and energy storage power. Finding the right mix is what drives the development of all hybrid manufacturers. The key is to make optimal use of the advantages in both parts of the system: energy storage and the long range of a fuel cell.

Figure 1. The entire range of vehicle operation.

For a quick technical rundown refer to Figure 2. Starting on the left, the negative electrode makes the hydrogen carry a positive charge (H+). This process creates the negative electron (E-) that powers the bus. The membrane only allows the H+ to pass through which is combined with oxygen (O) and the electrons that are flowing back from the bus. The fuel cell then expels the only emission, H2O or water. The power from the fuel cell combined with the battery power determines the power available to propel the bus. This is great for forward motion, but what about slowing down? In a car, brake pads and discs slow the vehicle down, but in our case we take this opportunity to regenerate electricity. This regeneration is done with an electric motor that takes the momentum and transfers it to electricity. This is a great advantage since the battery is charging and the brake pads are being saved, thus reducing maintenance.

Figure 2. Typical hydrogen fuel cell operation.

Reducing emissions and reusing energy that would otherwise be wasted and emitted as heat is a great combination in the overall goal of reducing carbon emissions and increasing fuel efficiency. Siemens Large Drives-Traction group builds drives for light and heavy rail vehicles as well as buses and other large vehicles. For many of these vehicles it integrates hybrid technology with ELFA technology, which consists of the electric drive portion of the vehicle. Although the Large Drives Hybrid division works mostly with buses, the technology will work for any large application. The ELFA inverters take the electricity from the energy storage and the fuel cell then invert it to a usable energy for the ELFA motors. This is the most basic layout of the entire system, which is all controlled with Siemens software. The software interacts with the vehicle data -- fuel cell and battery management, operator controls, etc. -- to make the bus operate as closely to the conventional style as possible.

Figure 3. The new fuel cell bus for AC Transit.

There is no doubt that the electric vehicle is the wave of the future. With zero emissions, and lower maintenance costs there is no comparison to conventionally powered vehicles. Initially, battery-powered vehicles offered the most viability. Even better is to make possible large vehicles, like buses and trucks, that run continuously for hours on a fuel cell that does not require frequent recharging. To get there, greater funding for fuel cells and associated technologies is essential.

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It's been nine months since I wrote the original Ultimate Guide to the Facebook Edgerank Algorithm. I was amazed to see the reaction to the piece.

It clearly seemed to strike a chord as it went on to be the most popular guest post on Econsultancy in 2012.

But a lot has changed since then in the world of Facebook. As I'm currently putting together a presentation for the upcoming Econsultancy Digital Shorts event in Manchester on Edgerank and other social algorithms, now seemed the perfect time to revisit the piece to update and expand it.

What is EdgeRank?

EdgeRank is one of the most important algorithms in marketing. Despite this, very few people have heard of it and fewer still can claim that they fully understand it.

EdgeRank is the name of the algorithm which Facebook uses to determine what appears in their users’ news feeds. The news feed is Facebook’s ‘Killer App’. There is a plethora of information available to Facebook users, and the newsfeed is the order in which it appears.

It determines not only which of your connections is the most important to you, meaning their content appears most frequently, but also which kinds of content should appear higher than others.

For anyone seeking to market a product or service on Facebook it’s essential you understand how this algorithm works.

Understanding the rules of the algorithm and changing your tactics to reflect the system can make the difference between a business changing campaign and an embarrassing failure. Yet despite its importance very little has been written about the algorithm.

Unlike many of the algorithms that are changing marketing, Edgerank is actually not that sophisticated, but don’t let its relative simplicity make you underestimate the influence knowledge of the subject will have on your tactical choices.

Its importance is even more significant in that it is a precursor to many newer social algorithms like Google+ or Twitter’s Top Tweets. By successfully understanding how Facebook aggregate, sort and prioritise social content we can better anticipate how other alternatives might develop.

Additionally, as social signals become part of the SEO landscape, understanding how Facebook deal with social signals is hugely helpful in grasping where natural search algo’s might be heading.

Why Edgerank?

Let’s start off with the name. Other than because it sounds cool, why is the News Feed algo known as EdgeRank? This is because every piece of content or interaction of Facebook is known as an “edge”.

So, a status update is an edge; liking a status update, that’s an edge; uploading a photo, that’s an edge, too; or a change in relationship status? That’s also an edge.

Basically, every interaction you have with Facebook that creates a piece of content is known as an Edge. Even listening to a song on Spotify or reading an article from the Guardian have become Edges with Facebook’s frictionless sharing.

So, the newsfeed isn’t really a feed of news. Instead, it’s a chart of the most ‘important’ Edges as determined by the EdgeRank Algorithm. What are the elements that make this algorithm?

A combination of three factors: Affinity, Edge Weight and Recency

The EdgeRank formula is based on these three elements. While this does make the algo seem simple, there’s actually a huge amount of complexity behind these three factors.

Affinity is a score based on the proximity to or how “friendly” you are with someone. You’ve probably seen this in action. Spy on an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, snoop on their profile and suddenly they’re in your news feed all the time.

Comment on someone’s photos and you’ll find them appearing in your feed more often. This is affinity in action.

You’ve sent a proactive signal that you have a ‘close-ness’ to that individual or organisation. The algorithm acknowledges this and begins to order the results in your newsfeed accordingly.

Some people aren’t wholly supportive of Affinity having such a significant role in EdgeRank. The concern is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, i.e. the more often someone appears in your news feed, the more likely you are to increase your affinity, which in turn increases the likelihood of them appearing in your feed in the future and so on.

But given how people tend to cluster around only a small number of their connections, it seems to work well for most people on Facebook.

One of the most important things you need to realise about affinity as a marketer is that affinity is one-way. This means you visiting a forgotten friend's profile doesn’t increase the likelihood of you appearing in their newsfeed.

I’m sure for nosey people that is great news. It is less likely to be considered good news for company profiles. For example, if you visit a profile of someone following you, it will have no impact on your Edges appearing in their feed. However, you commenting on a photo of theirs which then triggers them to comment back would lead to them having a greater affinity to you.

As an individual, if you’d like an indication of who you have the highest affinity to, look in your chat bar. The people who appear (even if they are offline) are often those you have the most proximity to on Facebook.

Edge Weight

Edge Weight is a basic formula which decides that certain pieces of content are more likely to appear in news feeds than others. Photos are more important than someone “liking” a business profile, etc.

There’s no definitive sequence of Edge Weight, but there are certain objects which acquire more EdgeRank than others. This can imply that they tend to have a higher Edge Weight than other types of content.

The three types of content which are widely understood to have the highest Edge Weight are Videos, Photos, and Links.

Knowing that these have the heaviest weighting should alter the way you communicate using Facebook. You should try and incorporate objects with high weight scores into any announcements that you want to reach as many of your followers as possible.

It’s also worth noting that each person’s Edge Weight is different, i.e. someone who likes browsing photographs is more likely to have them in their feed than someone who isn’t as keen on them.

It’s not possible to understand which types of objects each of your followers favour, but this should at least deter you from the temptation of adding photos to every status update.

On the one hand, adding one type of ‘Edge’ will seem like a sensible strategy as it will have a high Edge Weight. On the other hand, for the people who don’t often click on photos you might have more success with a link, a video or an old fashioned text status update.

It’s also worth noting potential political elements to Edge Weight. At any point in time there will be certain features which Facebook will want to strategically push.

Is it that far-fetched to assume that given Facebook’s desire to own image sharing that they might turn up the weight of Facebook photos rather than an image shared as a link to another site?

You should recognise what Facebook are trying to promote, as it’s likely to influence the EdgeRank algo.

Another aspect of this is that weight can accumulate, i.e. lots of likes or comments will increase the weight of the original Edge. This is why anything which encourages debate or comment quickly will more likely appear in newsfeeds.

So, clearly variety is important, but understanding the relative weights of different types of object will help you increase the potential audiences of any message you’re trying to get across on Facebook.

The techniques you choose to increase the accumulation of weight can have a huge impact on the reach of your content.

The final element of the EdgeRank is related to recency, which is actually known as time decay. Facebook is still very reliant on the temporal nature of content, which is again pretty self-evident.

Put simply, recency is that something newer is more likely to appear than something older.

For example, regardless of how much the EdgeRank is based on Affinity and Weight, if it’s old news it becomes less likely to appear. This is different to Twitter which relies only on chronological order.

The implication of this being that you should create objects and edges at the points in time when your audience are most likely to be using Facebook. This decreases the time decay and therefore increases the chance of your content reaching their news feed.

There is also another potential consequence of understanding the time decay factor. When appearing in the news feed you have exceeded the EdgeRank of other items. You might then increase the exposure by creating content when other people are less likely to be creating content, therefore reducing the competition for spots in the news feed.

Things you can do to increase your EdgeRank

Now if you’re a regular user of Facebook, many of these ideas behind EdgeRank are obvious, but with a good appreciation and understanding of how EdgeRank works you will begin to make more intelligent decisions in your Facebook marketing campaign.

The creativity of big campaigns is important. However, from my experience of Facebook Marketing, while it’s these huge efforts that always draw the attention and become the focus of case studies, it’s actually those lower profile campaigns which are built on constant interaction with their fans that really deliver the most value

Whether you’re managing a campaign to make a big splash or a constant drip, there are plenty of takeaways from understanding more about more about how Edgerank works.

For example if you have an important launch coming up and you really want that content to appear in as many of your fans’ news feeds as possible, what can you do to increase the likelihood of it appearing?

First of all, you want to do all you can to increase the affinity between your followers and you ahead of the announcement. Perhaps you could start a debate on one of your status updates which lots of your followers contribute to.

Not only will the number of comments increase the likelihood of that particular item appearing in the newsfeed, but also anyone who has made a contribution will have increased their affinity to you.

Don’t be afraid to ask for the contribution! Buddy Media has found that using questioning words like Where, When, Why and Would have a dramatic influence on likes and comments, and as these likes and comments increase affinity, this has a positive influence on the reach of any future messages.

So, in the run up to your important announcement, plan a series of updates which have the purpose of trying to increase the affinity between your profile and your followers.

Tease the update, ask questions, say something divisive, etc. You need a plan to increase the affinity of as many of your followers as possible.

This should be an on-going plan as affinity is something that will decrease over time, and generally speaking, you want as many of your updates to appear in front of as many of the right people as possible.

Since we also know that in general, photos tend to appear in news feeds more frequently than normal status updates, perhaps you ought to accompany the release with a series of photographs. Videos and Links also have a higher than average weighting so should also be part of your posting plans.

So, media and assets need to be part of your Facebook strategy. You need to develop a content and asset strategy and a schedule for them.

This can be comprehensive or flexible but thinking about what you can do to create updates with higher weight will enable you to interact with a bigger audience. Also, the fact that this type of content is also far more likely to be shared is an added bonus.

If you also know that the more recent your update is, the more likely it is to appear in news feeds, it should have an impact on when your announcement is made to ensure it coincides with your followers logging into their accounts. Explore when you get the most interaction on your posts and try and coincide future updates.

One of the biggest problems I have with most Facebook marketing campaigns is that they look to the number of likes a Facebook Page has the main measure of success.

Although it is very easy to measure, EdgeRank educates us that just because someone ‘Likes’ an account doesn’t mean it will appear in the followers’ news feeds.

This means if you want your messages and conversations to reach your potential customers, you will find a smaller but more engaged audience may lead to more appearances in the feed than a larger but less engaged audience.

Edgerank in 2012

I’ve been very pleased to see the rise in understanding in EdgeRank over the last year. One of the people who can take the credit for that rise is Chad Wittman and the team at EdgeRank Checker.

But I do have a note of caution related to their tool. While I have no doubt that the people behind the tool completely grasps the algo, I think the tool struggles to assess one of the most important aspects of EdgeRank: Affinity.

The most important thing to understand about EdgeRank is that it is based upon an individual user and an Edge, and this can’t, nor shouldn’t, be aggregated.

The tool does not and cannot report of what affinity your fans have to you; only what interactions they’ve had in the past. Affinity is personal too, and therefore very difficult to amalgamate across a whole audience.

It does provide some interesting insights into weight and some actionable insights into decay but inevitably is a little reductive on affinity.

It can be a useful tool to help you improve your EdgeRank but can’t, in my opinion, help you numerically report on your EdgeRank, which I fear what some people may be using it for despite the great intentions of those behind the tool.

The Ticker

One of the changes which has the potential ability to disrupt the newsfeed and therefore EdgeRank was the ticker. Which initially promised to introduce a real time feed of what your friends were doing on Facebook, in effect ignoring affinity and weight, in actuality that doesn't seem to be the case.

There does appear to be some algorithmic filtering taking place on the Ticker.

I'm not aware of anyone from Facebook having gone on the record about what influences what appears in the ticker, but my gut feel it's merely a modified version of the EdgeRank algo which concentrates far more on decay and weight at the expense of affinity.

For example it really seems to highlight apps built upon Facebook’s frictionless sharing like Spotify.

How do they decide the relative weight?

I think we need to think about Facebook’s strategic objectives: the ticker probably favours Edges which they want to highlight, e.g new functionality, partners they want to drive traffic to, etc.

Explicit statements of Affinity

The introduction of friend groupings that mimic Google+ Circles also has potential ramifications for EdgeRank. In the past affinity was implicit based on usage, e.g. you want you know about the people FB knows you interact with.

Now there is the potential for explicit feedback from users about who they want to hear from, which has got to have an impact.

However, most of us reading this post are interested in how we can make sure the ways our companies and clients use of Facebook are the most effective; our company pages can't be added to friend lists, (but can to interest groups) so probably won't have a huge impact beyond potentially favouring people over pages.

What About TimeLine?

Without question, the introduction of TimeLines is one of the biggest shifts in how Facebook operates since the introduction of the newsfeed. However in principle, it shouldn’t have an impact on what appears in the newsfeed other than in two indirect ways.

First, it has the potential to alter the way in which people interact with existing Edges, though this probably minimal.

Second, it could also potentially give some explicit feedback on weight, e.g. the types of content people decide to include/exclude from their TimeLine might inform their personal attitude to the weight of different types of Edge.

All in all, Edgerank is at the heart of determining what content people see the second they log-in to Facebook. If you’re promoting a business through FB, you need an appreciation of how it works and reflect it in your day to day tactical actions.

If you're looking for more information on Facebook, we have just pubished a new update to our report: Facebook Pages for Business: A Best Practice Guide.
Kelvin Newman

Published 3 May, 2012 by Kelvin Newman

Kelvin Newman is SiteVisibility's Creative Director and is the editor of the UK's most listened to Marketing Podcast. He also spends his time at conferences, tweeting too much and working on top secret research and development projects. He's also on Google+

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Steve Allard @ Wise - Facebook Analytics

That's definitely one of the most detailled article about Edgerank available on the web!
Thanks and congrats Kelvin.

almost 5 years ago

Tom Huxtable

Great article. It still astonishes me how many brands do not even know what Edgerank is given it's probably the single most important thing to understand about Facebook and should inform the vast majority of what a brand does on FB.

Too many brands are still approaching social almost as an extension of their advertising ie. big idea, big campaign, three month break, next big idea etc. Edgerank shows that brands need to be always on - more drip feed than burst.

almost 5 years ago

Kelvin Newman

Kelvin Newman, Creative Director at SiteVisibility

I don't think big ideas and Understanding Edgerank are incompatible,

Great campaigns may also tick the boxes of edgerank with out deliberately realising. But this isn't some huge secret and anyone who claims to be an expert in Facebook Marketing and isn't even familiar with the term would worry me.

almost 5 years ago

David Moscardini, Social Media Manager at TUI UK & Ireland

Hi Kelvin, excellent read. In particular I'd like to echo your thoughts around too much focus from companies on the KPI of likes and not enough focus on talking about this (engagement). It amazes me to see fan pages with huge likes and below 2% engagement. Focus on the engagement, add it the basic principles in this article and the likes will look after themselves.

almost 5 years ago

Kelvin Newman

Kelvin Newman, Creative Director at SiteVisibility

Very True, though There's not a magical Edgerank number you can report on thought, Although I know that wasn't what you were suggesting David

almost 5 years ago

Luisa Mateus

Thanks Kelvin. This is one of the more in-depth articles I've read on Edgerank.

almost 5 years ago

Tom Huxtable - EngageSciences

@ Kelvin,

Agree that big ideas are important/compatible with Edgerank, as are the campaigns that deliver them, but the approach of a big burst once every three months and then limited interaction between the big bursts will not build ongoing engagement or egderank....brands need to deliver in between the bursts.

almost 5 years ago

Kelvin Newman

Kelvin Newman, Creative Director at SiteVisibility

very true!

almost 5 years ago

bjorn lindorf

wow I just realised that my knowledge of facebook was pretty limited. Thanks for this great article.

almost 5 years ago

Paul Mosenson

Great summary here on Edgerank. It can get complicated but I do try to explain posting best practices to our many clients. It's a challenge, but it works.

almost 5 years ago

Thanks for a really succinct (and not overly 'techy') article on this, a great way of explaining it!

almost 5 years ago

Panos Ladas

Panos Ladas, Digital Marketing Manager at Piece of Cake

The article is helpful and few case studies and more specific examples would help people understand much better the value of Facebook's Edgerank!

almost 5 years ago

Kelvin Newman

Kelvin Newman, Creative Director at SiteVisibility

I have thought about doing a post like 'ten brands who clearly understand Facebook's Edgerank Algo and why' think that's something people would appreciate?

almost 5 years ago

Tom Huxtable - EngageSciences

Think that would be seriously helpful. We work with a few brands who 'get it'. Happy to contribute if that helps?

almost 5 years ago

That'd be really helpful, Kelvin, yes.

almost 5 years ago

Paul Allen

Really good article, thank you. Very succinct and easy to understand. Would be great to see some 'best examples' if anyone has any they feel are worth mentioning?

almost 5 years ago

Russell Huq

I was really struggling with edgerank, thanks for the informative post Kelvin.

almost 5 years ago

Personal Injury Specialists

Facebook marketing will continue to confuse people until it starts to deliver for smaller brands.

almost 5 years ago

David Lorentzen

Great article, but I have one question about what seems - to me at least - to be a contradiction:

You write that an "edge" is an interaction with Facebook that creates a piece of content. So, in my understanding that means just clicking on a picture is not an edge - since it creates no content.

But then you give an example of affinity where you say that just spying on a persons profile will give that person a greater affinity to the one spying. I assume that by spying you mean just looking at a persons profile without leaving any traces such as likes, comments, sharing content or anything like that.

I other words spying is looking at a persons profile WITHOUT creating an edge. How, then, can this affect the affinity score??

I hope you will clarify this point for me. Thanks a lot!

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What an amazing insight into Edgerank
I'm quite new to the social media side of marketing
and this has been a huge help.

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From what I've found running my website's Facebook Page is that Questions are a great way to engage with your fans. Answering a question and/or commenting on it produces a lot of edges and also appears in the ticker of your fans. This leads to a snowball effect. More business should use facebook questions.

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Very nice article :) Congrats to the author and thanks for the detailed descriptions of what edgerang really is ;)

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Nadia Benamara

Doesn't anyone else suspect that the primary reaon EdgeRank criteria is kept vague is so FB can charge for additional reach? Thanks for the article...

over 4 years ago

Anthony Burns

Nadia, yes, I think you are right. The 'promote' button is now an important part of FB in a short time.

Great article by the way. I was struggling with recent changes and updates on our page. This explains it. It would be great to have more examples though.

over 4 years ago

One thing still puzzles me greatly: Say my page, with 1000 likes, has 600 interactions for a post. And say Coca Cola's page, with 1 000 000 likes, has 5 000 interactions for a post. Now Coca Cola's organic reach isn't any better than my page's organic reach on people's newsfeed, right? I have no actual trouble competing with coca cola in this scenario (in terms of pure organic reach) - we both appear on people's timelines without too many problems? I've observed this with pages with small numbers of likes and a high engagement factor (which tends to be the case with small pages), who do fantastically compared to mammoth brands on my newsfeed (even though I personally engage with neither).
Now, edge rank checker explains this high engagement with small pages in terms of the "difficulty publishing engaging content to their entire audience". To me it suggests that edge rank for pages isn't absolute - isn't based on the fact that I have 5 000 or only 600 people interacting with my post, but rather based on the fact that a HIGH PROPORTION of my 'likes' are interacting with my posts, which suggests to the edgerank algorithm that the stuff I publish is generally liked?
My question is because my company's page caters to two very different audiences. I'm thinking about whether to split the page into two, and produce a proportionally much greater engagement rate by doing so, in order to do gain better newsfeed visibility.
I'm sure other people must be interested in this question - whether engagement is important as a proportion of page likes to increase edgerank. However, I haven't seen this explained anywhere!

over 4 years ago

Thanks for the great article, Kelvin! Clearly explained Edgerank and it's components.

over 4 years ago

Epic Sports

Great article. It's one of few that discuss how Timeline influences Edgerank. We saw a dramatic increase in our Edgerank score just prior to the switch. Our fans engage regularly and we post 2-4 times per day with calls to action and implied calls to action utilizing a variety of types of post options (video, photo, status, apps, links, etc.). I don't think that the score itself is as important as getting it to continually increase.

over 4 years ago

Kelvin, thanks for the great article! I am also a young social media marketing professional and this is a great help in order to build better strategies.

I would also like to read about more examples.

over 4 years ago

Utah SEO Pros

Wow, now that's what I call a quick but effective guide on EdgeRank. I've read several other in-depth looks into edgerank and no one seems to grasp the entire concept. I like how you explained things and how you implemented Affinity within the algorithm. It all makes sense, now it's time to create a campaign that can touch on all of those areas.

about 4 years ago

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  1. For everyone starting out and feeling like a million dollars will it you right away, and stick with you: Don't even think about it!

    In fact 9/10 traders fail in the beginning because they don't know what they're in for.

    I want to illustrate what it takes to be profitable, and that is namely, discipline and education. But how? So many people use these 2 words today and it really has become somewhat of a cliche to come out and say "Be disciplined and learn".

    First of all, discipline and education go hand in hand. The worse the education the longer it takes, the less a chance to get somewhere.

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    b - a basic money management rule of not risking more than a small small fraction of your account. That is to ensure that you are not an enemy of your money while you learn.

    From a psychological point of view, paper trading and demo is out of the question. They don't mean a single thing.

    Happy trading y'all.
  2. "From a psychological point of view, paper trading and demo is out of the question. They don't mean a single thing."

    Paper trading can build confidence and trust in yourself and decisions. If the adage "trade money you can afford to lose" equates with the worthlesness of paper trading might remove some of the emotion from the real thing.

    I would put on a real money position and trade the same stock in different scenarios on a simulator. This adds a touch of reality to paper trading.

    Paper trading and losing at the same time has real psychological consequences. What's the alternative? Oh, I'll do better with real money? Not hardly.
  3. Another 2 minutes of my life totally wasted.
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    And thanks to Bearbelly for cutting it down to 30 seconds of mine.
  5. Daal

    I just wasted another 15 seconds reading stupid I just wasted jokes
  6. The problem is new traders are in such a hurry to get rich that they skip over, "Chapter 1... Trading, The Basics... KISS". You know, racing ahead to get on to "the good stuff".

    Takes a long time for them to get back to "Chapter 1."
  7. gnome: thanks for the rational post. Some of the newbies don't even get to Chapter 1. They never understand what that "good stuff is".

    Bearbelly, nove, daal: you can't handle losses without complaining ? :) And besides, this is a Chapter 1 subject. Good luck.

    nutmeg: ask anybody who has been through the cycle and they will tell you that results on paper have never matched real trading results. It's exactly that "emotion" you are talking about, that is changing the whole perspective.
  8. Thanks for saving all my seconds.

    But, I will tell you why most fail. They fail because they don't think there is a Holy Grail... they, think it comes down to psychology, and discipline etc.. while their methods and techniques are worth junk... It's all in WHAT you do to extract profits from the markets, how sound your philosophy about the markets, instead of your psychology...
  9. You have to agree though that besides EDUCATION (what i have originally stated) you still need good DISCIPLINE.
  10. I've sometimes mused at the prospect of doing a seminar on trading and charging $50,000 to attend. (Of course that would filter-out all but those trading size.)

    It wouldn't be a week-long affair. Not even a weekend.... nor even a full day.

    We wouldn't need to "break for lunch", we'd be FINISHED by lunch.

    After the seminar, attendees would be shaking their heads, asking "THAT'S it?"

    Then they'd feel like a dumbass for having paid $50,000 for a seminar which covered the stuff they skipped over in "Chapter 1".

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17.1 Introduction

17.2 Steady-State Operation of A Trickle Bed Reactor

17.3 Periodic Operation of Trickle Bed Reactors

17.4 Liquid Flow Modulation with Multiple Reactions

17.5 Hydrodynamics Under Liquid Flow Modulation

17.6 Modeling of the Periodic Operation of Trickle Bed Reactors

17.7 Summary

Chapter 18. Periodic Flow Reversal

18.1 The Heat-Trapping Concept

18.2 Theoretical Aspects

18.3 Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds

18.4 Other Applications of Reverse Flow Reactors

18.5 Thermal Reactors

18.6 Endothermic Processes

18.7 Mass Trapping Reactors

18.8 Biofilters

18.9 Miscellaneous Applications

18.10 Commercial Applications

Chapter 19. Control of Periodically Operated Reactors

19.1 Formulation of an Optimal Control Problem for a Periodically Operated Reactor

19.2 Chattering Controls

19.3 Controls for Stirred Slurry and Fluidized Bed Reactors

19.4 Controls for Packed Bed Reactors

19.5 Control of Packed Bed Reactors with Flow-Direction Switching

19.6 Control of Simulated Moving Bed Chromatographic Reactors

19.7 Other Control Schemes for Periodically Operated Reactors

19.8 Comments and Research Needs

Chapter 20. Chromatographic Reactors

20.1 Introduction

20.2 Concept and Types

20.3 General Models

20.4 Cyclic Steady State

20.5 Pulse Chromatographic Reactor

20.6 Countercurrent Moving Bed Chromatographic Reactor

20.7 Continuous Rotating Annular Chromatographic Reactor

20.8 Stepwise, Countercurrent Multi-Stage Fluidized Bed Chromatographic Reactor

20.9 Fixed Bed Chromatographic Reactor With Flow Direction Switching

20.10 Extractive Reactor Systems

20.11 Centrifugal Partition Chromatographic Reactor

Chapter 21. Simulated Moving Bed Chromatographic Reactors

21.1 Operation and Application

21.2 Modeling and Simulation

21.3 Experimental Studies

21.4 Other Reactor Applications of Simulated Moving Beds

Chapter 22. Pressure and Temperature Swing Reactors

22.1 Concepts and Types of Pressure Swing Reactors

22.2 Models for Swing Reactors

22.3 Computational Considerations

22.4 Simulations of Pressure Swing Systems

22.5 Experimental Studies

22.6 Temperature Swing Reactors

22.7 Simulation of Temperature Swing Systems

22.8 Temperature Swing Reactor Networks

22.9 Experimental

22.10 Combined Pressure and Temperature Swing Reactors

22.11 Overview and Assessment

Chapter 23. New Directions—Research and Development Challenges

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Pentax has announced a new entry-level camera in its Optio line, following up the E20 (and E10 before it) with, you guessed it, the E30. As with those earlier models, this camera's aimed squarely at the point-and-shoot set, one-upping the E20's 6 megapixel sensor with a 7.1 megapixel one this time around, along with the same 3x optical zoom and 2.4-inch LCD. Otherwise you'll get the usual range of camera preset modes, a token 11MB of internal memory, and an SD slot for some all-but-required expansion (including support for SDHC cards). There's no word on price or availability just yet, although if the previous models are any indication, it should come in somewhere in the $200 range.

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One of my favorite little additions in patch 2.3 was the boat/zeppelin vendors. Sure, there's a whole crew there, but after talking to them once to see what gossip they had, the vendors were the only ones I went back to. Since Blizzard refuses to take me up on my suggestion to allow fishing from moving boats, it gives me the one more thing to do while waiting for that zone-in screen, aside from chatting and making bandages. Being able to sell trash, stock up on reagents, and sometimes repair during this downtime is really nice.

Unfortunately, the boat vendors have been disabled in a hotfix to the live realms, for vague reasons. Nethaera clarifies that there are "propulsion issues" that necessitate the vendors being out for the time being, but that they'll be "back on duty" as soon as the issues are fixed. Possibly related is a note that the entire boat crew is gone on the 2.3.2 PTR, "for testing purposes." Hopefully the vendors will be back soon; until then, my boat rides will be (even more) boring.

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Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider's daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mat McCurley will be your host today.

Hey, I'm back! Blame Alex. Yesterday, heroics opened up for testing in the Cataclysm beta. Tonight, the epic quest to get absolutely destroyed by these dungeons begins! Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday! Come one, come all. Witness the horrors, trials and tribulations of stalwart souls! The slaughter in the Stonecore! The battle in the Blackrock Caverns! Throne of the DIES ... The quite literal Deadmines! Hellish Halls of Origination. A truly Grim Batol! Uh... Vortex Pinna...culling? What do you want from me? It's early.

Enough of that. Let's get on with some questions.

There are some Cataclysm spoilers in a couple of The Queue questions this week, so be wary if you're avoiding that sort of thing.

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Will we ever see an automatic group finder for raids like we have for heroics? I know raiding with guilds is ideal, but sometimes I just really need to find a tank for the 10-man weekly without having to spam the general chat for an hour.

Personally, I don't think that I would want to see this. Dungeons and heroics make sense -- the maximum amount of time you're spending with a pickup group is an hour, tops. Raids have so many varying levels of difficulty, along with a much stricter lockout period, that one random gone wrong could lock you out for a week, as opposed to just getting locked out of a dungeon for a day. Raids are meant for something different than the dungeons and are therefore treated differently.

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Why is Garrus in the background of the web?

Garrus has been doing the calibrations for the URL changeover. Give him some time. He's got a lot on his plate.

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People are too concerned with the wrong dates. The real question is when the Cataclysm trailer is coming out. So when is it coming out?

Amen, brother. I cannot wait to see what trailer they pull out for Cataclysm. We've had the contemplative villain trailer, so I'm guessing we won't get something as melodramatic as Wrath's cinematic. Expect some action. My guess is that we'll see it at BlizzCon or at the end of September.

Also, this question forced me to go back and watch all of the cinematic openings for World of Warcraft and the expansions, and I am impressed every time. The Cataclysm trailer cannot come soon enough.

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The draenei starting area takes place right after the Exodar crashed, and the Forsaken starting area takes place as Sylvanas is freeing undead from the Lich King's control. Have these two areas been revamped in Cata? Are they still set in the past?

I just popped onto beta for a few minutes and made a draenei, and I did not see anything different, except the new voice-over introduction. The undead, however, are a different story entirely. Spoilers ahead.

Previously, you would awake as a newly broken free undead, finally slipping free of the Lich King's hold. Now, things have changed. As a fresh undead, you awaken in a shallow grave, newly risen in undeath by Sylvanas' val'kyr. You are told that you are not a slave to Sylvanas, but if you choose to follow her, things will be pretty great. Then, you are instructed to help newly risen undead out of its shock and stupor from being risen. Suffice it to say, this is a very, very interesting new beginning for Forsaken players.

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Will death knights always start at level 55? It would be cool if they changed it to level 1 so you can see all the new Cataclysm content as a DK. I guess there is some lore reason they start at 55.

I am pretty sure death knights will always begin at level 55, because that is how their entire unique opening has been developed. They are still technically a "hero" class, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the type of class additions we get from here on out.

Starting at level 55 is pretty much the reward for playing a hero class. You've already seen the early levels, presumably, on another character in order to unlock your death knight slot -- so congratulations, you don't have to do it again. Cataclysm fixes this to a large extent, with different leveling paths for characters.

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ADATA's trio of new Premier Pro microSD cards have escaped from the company's headquarters. Aimed at professionals and demanding consumers, the 16GB and 32GB editions come with a 45MB/s read and 40MB/s write speeds and support the latest SD 3.0 standard. The company isn't mentioning how well the 8GB card runs, so we'll just presume it's a little less speedy than either of its larger brothers. We've reached out to the company to find out when we can expect to see these hitting shelves (and how much they'll cost) and we will update if they tell us.

Update: The company let us know that 8GB costs $18, 16GB costs $32 and the 64GB will set you back $62 when they arrive later in the summer.

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Taipei, Taiwan – May 30, 2012 - ADATA™ Technology today announces the launch of new Premier Pro microSDHC UHS-I U1 memory cards, which thanks to their ultra-high speed transfer and the latest SD 3.0 standard support, this newest addition to the Premier Pro line offers ideal specifications for smartphone and tablet users.

Premier Pro storage products from ADATA are targeted towards professionals, as well as the most demanding end users. These new microSDHC cards follow through in the tradition of this prestigious product family, with support for the latest SD 3.0 standards. Read/write speeds for the larger capacity cards (16 and 32 gigabytes) are 45 MB/second (Read) and 40 MB/second (Write). They also offer up to 1400/150 IOPs random Read/Write speeds, ensuring high performance while running multiple applications or when working with high resolution media files.

Ray Chu, Product Manager at ADATA, is confident about the future of Premier Pro microSDHC storage: "These cards have the best read and write performance among all comparable products offered by the industry's key players. When that is combined with the aggressive pricing options in store for this line, the result is going to be a bonanza for our customers worldwide." The Premier Pro microSDHC UHS-I U1 cards will be bundled together with an SD adaptor, to facilitate transfer of contents to and from users' personal computers.

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That aspect of Word makes me crazy. I can't speak for UK English, but don't capitalize "and" and prepositions. Some style guides say to capitalize prepositions that are longer than five letters, or something crazy like that. I don't do that.
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If you're serious about starting your business -- even if you don't have anything down in writing -- you've already started to plan.

So how do you find time to write a business plan? You don't. You are always planning. Your plan is never done, but your planning process is your key to good management.

Your plan is for you first. Don't make it for anybody else. Do it because it helps you divide and manage big goals into practical steps. Instead of looking at it as a document, think of your business plan as a place on your computer where you collect ideas, useful stories, lists and numbers. It's a place where you keep track of the market, your milestones, goals and projections.

Planning is a process that includes review and revision. There's always a latest version and it lasts just a few weeks.

Related: The Basics of Building a Budget for Your Business

All your business plan really needs at the early stages is:

  • Milestones: What's supposed to happen, when, and who's responsible.
  • Basic numbers: Simple spreadsheet projections for sales, costs and expenses.
  • Strategy: Strategy is about deciding how to focus a business offering on a key target market. It can start with just bullet points. I've seen it done well with pictures. It's mostly a reminder for you and your team.
  • Cash flow: Because profits don't guarantee enough cash to pay your bills, you need to manage cash from the beginning. Month by month, account for what you spend and what you deposit -- not profit as it appears on the books, but money as it shows in the bank.
  • Review schedule: Set aside time for a plan verses actual review once a month to compare what you planned would happen in your business to what really happened. Be brief and practical.

Keep track of these main elements and grow your plan organically as your business grows. By recording what is supposed to happen you'll be able to better manage why, when and how things go wrong. And you'll be able to set performance metrics and develop accountability for different tasks and milestones.

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You'll add some thoughts about mission statements and mantra when you want. You'll add plans for organizational growth and structure as they become necessary. Don't bother with the parts you won't use -- like descriptions of yourself, your product and your team -- until there's a business purpose for them. This is not a term paper; it's a plan.

Sooner or later you're also going to want to share what's supposed to happen with a partner, employee, vendor, bank or investor. When you are communicating with someone else and need your business plan in one place, you can spin it out from its components to a document. At that point, you should take the trouble to do a summary, add descriptions of the business entity, history, team and market.

Tailor the document to its business purpose. For example, banks will want a lot of financial history and investors will want more on market validation and team experience. Dress up a plan for special viewing only as necessary.

Don't confuse that document with your business plan. It's just output -- a picture of what your plan was on the day you created the document. It's going to be obsolete the next day, week, or month.

Keep in mind what leaders like Napoleon and Eisenhower said: The plan is useless, but planning is essential.

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Let’s face it: most big companies are bad at innovating. While there are always outliers -- Google and Amazon come to mind -- innovation at blue chips tends to be the exception, not the rule. What’s more, when innovation at large companies is realized, it’s often achieved by acquiring smaller, nimbler firms rather than via in-house, organic growth.

Related: Peer Farther Into the Future to See Opportunity Before Your Competition Does

It doesn’t have to be this way. Here are eight tips on how to get your innovation mojo back.

1. Quantify success.

Too often, companies track success metrics that are too broad for individual contributors -- or even teams -- to make actionable. Ensure that every single person on your team knows what success means -- and understands how their contributions support the company’s overall objectives.

2. Learn with purpose.

Fail fast, learn with purpose and be sure to celebrate failures -- so long as they yield insights that can be used to improve your products or services. You may even uncover new opportunities that are bigger than the one at hand -- à la Google News or Post-Its. Create a monthly showcase featuring what your team has learned -- and communicating the new action items that are being undertaken as a result.

3. Banish ad hoc decision-making.

You don’t need more dashboards, you need better decisions. Put in place a structured process for making decisions -- and track the outcome of each business move. This is the only way to make consistently good decisions.

4. Embrace your "quiet geniuses."

Every company has smart, creative people who either don’t have a voice or who feel excluded from the decision-making process. This goes beyond culture. You need a transparent process to allow the best ideas to rise to the top -- and to acknowledge every individual who drives results.

Related: Take Precautions on the Alluring, Sexy and Mysterious Path of Innovation

5. Shun knaves.

Popularized by Google’s Jonathan Rosenberg and Eric Schmidt, a knave is a person at your company who doesn’t add value. Example behaviors of a knave range from taking credit for other people’s ideas to leaving a mess in the kitchen. Knaves are innovation inhibitors. Even worse, they can turn non-knaves into under-performers. Shun knaves at every turn.

6.  Get out of spreadsheets.

Nearly every job function in the modern economy is too complex to be managed in spreadsheets. While Google Spreadsheets and companies such as Quip are giving the format a breath of fresh air, rows and columns inhibit the types of insights, collaboration and institutional memory required to drive consistently good business decisions. The sooner you can ditch the sheets, the better.

7. Invest in experimentation.

Every company spends R&D dollars. Be the company that goes about this in a deliberate way by investing in experimentation: identify the hypotheses that you’re trying to validate, allocate a reasonable amount of resources to see them through and track what’s gained by the experiment. Don’t go about this half-heartedly -- drive toward conclusive insights swiftly and with purpose.

8. Kill comparative losers.

Say you have a product or service that’s winning in the marketplace -- it’s just throwing off cash. The usual thing to do? Take the proceeds from this product line and invest in R&D to develop new offerings. That’s not a problem -- unless this cash could be used to evolve the existing product line to be even more successful than any of the new products you could build. Put differently, it’s critical to assess every opportunity on a level playing field, and be objective about where the true opportunity lies by killing the comparative losers.

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