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- Calls to boycott Mulan rise after Disney release
- Facebook will pay some app and Instagram users for deactivating accounts, taking surveys ahead of election
- 26 Effective Ways for Improving Your Customer Retention Rate
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What We Learned
Tuesday: Databox gave us a whopping 26 effective ways for improving your customer retention rate. These included:
- Map out all customer touchpoints
- build out your onboarding process
- Create content to help existing customers
- Set up a referral program
- Pick up the phone
Wednesday: Visiture provided nine expert tactics to accelerate your SEO rankings. Among things to consider are creating superior content, optimizing content for featured snippets, and snatching up broken links.
Thursday: Convince & Convert shared 3 ways to boost your visual marketing results. Turn your social media images into artwork, brand your images well, and repurpose your images everywhere for best results.
Taryn wrote, “Anyone ever dealt with a client who pushes back on your suggestions and micromanages everything you do? How do you deal with this?”
Shelley said, “I’d love to take a digital email marketing conference or high-level social media conference to stay on-trend and up-to-date with the latest & greatest 
. Would love any recommendations (Inbound & Latercon are on my list).”
Amy posted, “Would be curious to get your thoughts on best sources for SEO and keyword strategy development.”
Diane asked, “Can any of you recommend a great book designer? The project needs to be completed by the end of this month. Thanks!”
Blood Orange Mojito
Ingredients
- 1 lime, cut into 8 wedges
- 5g mint
- 2 tsp sugar
- 3 blood oranges, juiced (you need around 200ml / 1/3pt juice)
- dash sparkling water
Steps
- Put the lime wedges into the base of 2 glasses. Add a few mint leaves (reserving the remaining sprigs to garnish) and 1 tsp sugar to each glass. Muddle together with a cocktail muddler if you have one or the end of a rolling pin.
- Add crushed ice to each glass, then pour over the orange juice and give a good stir to ensure the sugar dissolves.
- Top with a little sparkling water and garnish with the reserved mint sprigs. Serve immediately.
Recipe by Tesco
According to an age-old fashion rule, Labor Day is the last day you can wear which color?
White
