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  "company": "Mike's Hot Honey",
  "headline": "Mike's Hot Honey ran soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation and trial.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ SILVER · Sports partnership campaign · Mike's Hot Honey\n\nMike's Hot Honey ran soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation and trial.\n\npair your product with a sport or community event where your buyer is already congregating and in a sharing mindset. Don't build the audience — plug into an existing one. For a condiment or ready-to-eat product, your customer at a soccer match is in a high-social, high-sharing moment. Seed the product, tie the campaign to the event calendar, and let the sport do the distribution of your story. Sequence: identify the sport your buyer watches, identify the calendar events (league matches, tournaments), seed product at those moments, and run paid support that links the product to the match, not the player.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t03-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t03-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t03-4",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ SILVER · Sports partnership campaign · Mike's Hot Honey\n\nMike's Hot Honey ran soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation and trial.\n\npair your product with a sport or community event where your buyer is already congregating and in a sharing mindset. Don't build the audience — plug into an existing one. For a condiment or ready-to-eat product, your customer at a soccer match is in a high-social, high-sharing moment. Seed the product, tie the campaign to the event calendar, and let the sport do the distribution of your story. Sequence: identify the sport your buyer watches, identify the calendar events (league matches, tournaments), seed product at those moments, and run paid support that links the product to the match, not the player.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t03-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t03-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t03-4",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ SILVER · Sports partnership campaign · Mike's Hot Honey\n\nMike's Hot Honey ran soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation and trial.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t03-4",
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      "title": "Mike's Hot Honey ran soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation and trial.",
      "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 👇\nMike's Hot Honey launched a soccer-focused campaign to drive experimentation and expand reach, per Marketing Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): pair your product with a sport or community event where your buyer is already congregating and in a sharing mindset. Don't build the audience — plug into an existing one. For a condiment or ready-to-eat product, your customer at a soccer match is in a high-social, high-sharing moment. Seed the product, tie the campaign to the event calendar, and let the sport do the distribution of your story. Sequence: identify the sport your buyer watches, identify the calendar events (league matches, tournaments), seed product at those moments, and run paid support that links the product to the match, not the player.\nWhat that means for you: pair your product with a sport or community event where your buyer is already congregating and in a sharing mindset. Don't build the audience — plug into an existing one. For a condiment or ready-to-eat product, your customer at a soccer match is in a high-social, high-sharing moment. Seed the product, tie the campaign to the event calendar, and let the sport do the distribution of your story. Sequence: identify the sport your buyer watches, identify the calendar events (league matches, tournaments), seed product at those moments, and run paid support that links the product to the match, not the player.\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 — Marketing Dive: https://www.marketingdive.com/news/mikes-hot-honey-spurs-experimentation-with-soccer-infused-campaign/824276/.)\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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