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  "company": "e.l.f. Beauty",
  "headline": "e.l.f. Beauty sales soar 36 percent, lifting into premium positioning.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GOLD · Category outgrowth · e.l.f. Beauty\n\ne.l.f. Beauty sales soar 36 percent, lifting into premium positioning.\n\n36 percent growth in beauty is not chance. e.l.f. found a way to keep the mass audience and build an upmarket narrative at the same time. Most brands think these are opposites. They are not. You can hold both if you use email and packaging to separate the story, not just the SKU.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/elf-beauty-2026-08-09t12-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/elf-beauty-2026-08-09t12-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/elf-beauty-2026-08-09t12-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GOLD · Category outgrowth · e.l.f. Beauty\n\ne.l.f. Beauty sales soar 36 percent, lifting into premium positioning.\n\n36 percent growth in beauty is not chance. e.l.f. found a way to keep the mass audience and build an upmarket narrative at the same time. Most brands think these are opposites. They are not. You can hold both if you use email and packaging to separate the story, not just the SKU.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/elf-beauty-2026-08-09t12-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/elf-beauty-2026-08-09t12-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/elf-beauty-2026-08-09t12-3",
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      "title": "e.l.f. Beauty sales soar 36 percent, lifting into premium positioning.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\ne.l.f. Beauty delivered 36 percent sales growth, documented by Cosmetics Business, outpacing category norms and signaling successful price/value repositioning.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you're in a commodity category, test a premium tier first at 30% higher price. Launch it with different packaging, a cleaner ingredient story, and a 2-week exclusive email promotion to your top 10% by spend. Measure the attach rate and margin. If it sticks above 15% attach rate, expand the tier. You do not need to rebrand the whole line; you just add a better version and let customers choose.\nWhat that means for you: 36 percent growth in beauty is not chance. e.l.f. found a way to keep the mass audience and build an upmarket narrative at the same time. Most brands think these are opposites. They are not. You can hold both if you use email and packaging to separate the story, not just the SKU.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Cosmetics Business: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMie0FVX3lxTFBFZXhoWjBBMHVhZXF0NzBNQ2VkS08xNmVGVFlQZm1tb3ZLZU4tRjBvV3haZTVNZHllNTdNdUh0M0s1bHIwNnNmajhZaE4xUDQ4X2.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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