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  "company": "Mike's Hot Honey",
  "headline": "Mike's Hot Honey runs soccer campaign to experiment with sports audience.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Sports sponsorship and cultural event marketing · Mike's Hot Honey\n\nMike's Hot Honey runs soccer campaign to experiment with sports audience.\n\nNobody thinks of hot honey as a sports product. That's exactly why Mike's picked soccer. The brand isn't chasing the obvious (football, basketball). It's hunting for an audience that hasn't heard the pitch yet. That's the whole edge—you're not competing for share of voice in a crowded category; you're creating a new category moment. It's cheaper, faster, and more memorable than traditional sponsorship.\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-2026-07-05t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-05t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-05t06-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Sports sponsorship and cultural event marketing · Mike's Hot Honey\n\nMike's Hot Honey runs soccer campaign to experiment with sports audience.\n\nNobody thinks of hot honey as a sports product. That's exactly why Mike's picked soccer. The brand isn't chasing the obvious (football, basketball). It's hunting for an audience that hasn't heard the pitch yet. That's the whole edge—you're not competing for share of voice in a crowded category; you're creating a new category moment. It's cheaper, faster, and more memorable than traditional sponsorship.\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-2026-07-05t06-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-05t06-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-05t06-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Community Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Sports sponsorship and cultural event marketing · Mike's Hot Honey\n\nMike's Hot Honey runs soccer campaign to experiment with sports audience.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/mikes-hot-honey-2026-07-05t06-2",
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      "title": "Mike's Hot Honey runs soccer campaign to experiment with sports audience.",
      "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 👇\nPer Marketing Dive, Mike's Hot Honey launched a soccer-infused campaign to spur experimentation and tap into sports audiences outside traditional food and beverage sponsorship patterns.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): pick a sport audience that doesn't match your category, then ask what that audience _does_ with your product. Soccer fans skew younger and international. Hot honey isn't a soccer product—but it's a tailgate product, a stadium snack, a post-match meal centerpiece. Don't sponsor the team; sponsor the moment. Run the campaign in the off-season to test messaging cheaply, then lock budget behind the resonance that sticks. Test with micro-creators in soccer communities first (Reddit, Discord), measure engagement and sentiment, then scale to paid.\nWhat that means for you: Nobody thinks of hot honey as a sports product. That's exactly why Mike's picked soccer. The brand isn't chasing the obvious (football, basketball). It's hunting for an audience that hasn't heard the pitch yet. That's the whole edge—you're not competing for share of voice in a crowded category; you're creating a new category moment. It's cheaper, faster, and more memorable than traditional sponsorship.\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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