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  "slug": "mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t18-4",
  "company": "Mike's Hot Honey",
  "headline": "Condiment brand launched soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ SILVER · Sport sponsorship activation · Mike's Hot Honey\n\nCondiment brand launched soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation.\n\nSoccer is on. Millions of people will watch, and food partnerships during sports events are one of the last places where sampling still works without feeling like a social-media ad. Mike's Hot Honey didn't buy a billboard; they bought a moment when 50,000 people in a stadium are thinking about food and 10 million are watching at home. That is efficient trial.\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-2026-07-04t18-4\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t18-4\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-04t18-4",
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      "title": "Condiment brand launched soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation.",
      "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 partnered with soccer to drive brand experimentation and trial, per Marketing Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): for a food product in a crowded shelf, don't advertise the product — advertise the moment when someone is most likely to try it. Sports events create permission and proximity for trial. Partner with the sport's official platform or team and put your product in the concession bundle or sponsor the halftime food moment. You are not selling the brand; you are co-distributing the trial moment.\nWhat that means for you: Soccer is on. Millions of people will watch, and food partnerships during sports events are one of the last places where sampling still works without feeling like a social-media ad. Mike's Hot Honey didn't buy a billboard; they bought a moment when 50,000 people in a stadium are thinking about food and 10 million are watching at home. That is efficient trial.\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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