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  "company": "Ruggable",
  "headline": "Ruggable shifted 10% of ad spend from Meta performance channels into ShopMy creators; brand channels now move velocity.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}",
  "source_name": "Modern Retail",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GOLD · Performance-to-influence budget reallocation · Ruggable\n\nRuggable shifted 10% of ad spend from Meta performance channels into ShopMy creators; brand channels now move velocity.\n\nwhen a DTC brand moves performance budget to influencer channels, it's because CAC via paid social has plateaued. Ruggable's test is whether creators act as a faster, cheaper top-of-funnel than Meta. The lever: ShopMy is not a general influencer platform — it's a shoppable one. Creators link directly to your product. The play this week: audit your last 90 days of paid-social CAC by product category. If any category has a CAC above $25, that's your reallocation candidate. Find 5–8 micro-creators (10k–100k followers) in home décor, interior design, or organization who have posted similar products, and offer them a flat fee (not affiliate %) plus product to create one shoppable post. Measure CPL (cost per link-out) against your Meta CAC. If it's 30% lower, move another 5% of budget.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/ruggable-2026-10-16t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/ruggable-2026-10-16t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/ruggable-2026-10-16t06-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Influencer & Seeding}\n◆ GOLD · Performance-to-influence budget reallocation · Ruggable\n\nRuggable shifted 10% of ad spend from Meta performance channels into ShopMy creators; brand…\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/ruggable-2026-10-16t06-3",
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      "title": "Ruggable shifted 10% of ad spend from Meta performance channels into ShopMy creators; brand channels now move velocity.",
      "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 👇\nSince August 2025, Ruggable reallocated approximately 10% of its total marketing spend away from performance channels (Meta) toward brand channels including influencers and connected TV, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when a DTC brand moves performance budget to influencer channels, it's because CAC via paid social has plateaued. Ruggable's test is whether creators act as a faster, cheaper top-of-funnel than Meta. The lever: ShopMy is not a general influencer platform — it's a shoppable one. Creators link directly to your product. The play this week: audit your last 90 days of paid-social CAC by product category. If any category has a CAC above $25, that's your reallocation candidate. Find 5–8 micro-creators (10k–100k followers) in home décor, interior design, or organization who have posted similar products, and offer them a flat fee (not affiliate %) plus product to create one shoppable post. Measure CPL (cost per link-out) against your Meta CAC. If it's 30% lower, move another 5% of budget.\nWhat that means for you: when a DTC brand moves performance budget to influencer channels, it's because CAC via paid social has plateaued. Ruggable's test is whether creators act as a faster, cheaper top-of-funnel than Meta. The lever: ShopMy is not a general influencer platform — it's a shoppable one. Creators link directly to your product. The play this week: audit your last 90 days of paid-social CAC by product category. If any category has a CAC above $25, that's your reallocation candidate. Find 5–8 micro-creators (10k–100k followers) in home décor, interior design, or organization who have posted similar products, and offer them a flat fee (not affiliate %) plus product to create one shoppable post. Measure CPL (cost per link-out) against your Meta CAC. If it's 30% lower, move another 5% of budget.\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 — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/ruggables-new-ad-spend-strategy-shifts-focus-to-shopmy-creators/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\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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