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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Event & Experiential}\n◆ PAPER · Creator-hosted event strategy · Sam's Club\n\nWellness event with creators brought exclusive membership exposure to new audiences.\n\nmost brands host events to sell. Sam's Club hosted an event to be covered. The difference: invite 20 creators and 20 journalists to the same space. Make the space noteworthy (not a hotel ballroom—a loft, a studio, somewhere that photographs differently). Don't brief the creators on talking points. Let them experience and share what they find authentic. This week: identify 20 micro-creators in your category (5K-50K followers) who have posted about your product or category in the last 60 days. Invite them to a 3-hour 'first look' event at a studio or restaurant in your city. No sales pitch. No branded backdrop (yet). Just the product and the people. Measure the organic posts and tags. The event is profitable if the earned media value (estimated CPM of posts) exceeds the cost of the space and refreshments. That's the math.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/sams-club-2026-07-17t18-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/sams-club-2026-07-17t18-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/sams-club-2026-07-17t18-7",
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      "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 👇\nSam's Club hosted Sam's Wellness Club, its first exclusive event bringing together creators, media, and merchants at a loft in Manhattan, per Modern Retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): most brands host events to sell. Sam's Club hosted an event to be covered. The difference: invite 20 creators and 20 journalists to the same space. Make the space noteworthy (not a hotel ballroom—a loft, a studio, somewhere that photographs differently). Don't brief the creators on talking points. Let them experience and share what they find authentic. This week: identify 20 micro-creators in your category (5K-50K followers) who have posted about your product or category in the last 60 days. Invite them to a 3-hour 'first look' event at a studio or restaurant in your city. No sales pitch. No branded backdrop (yet). Just the product and the people. Measure the organic posts and tags. The event is profitable if the earned media value (estimated CPM of posts) exceeds the cost of the space and refreshments. That's the math.\nWhat that means for you: most brands host events to sell. Sam's Club hosted an event to be covered. The difference: invite 20 creators and 20 journalists to the same space. Make the space noteworthy (not a hotel ballroom—a loft, a studio, somewhere that photographs differently). Don't brief the creators on talking points. Let them experience and share what they find authentic. This week: identify 20 micro-creators in your category (5K-50K followers) who have posted about your product or category in the last 60 days. Invite them to a 3-hour 'first look' event at a studio or restaurant in your city. No sales pitch. No branded backdrop (yet). Just the product and the people. Measure the organic posts and tags. The event is profitable if the earned media value (estimated CPM of posts) exceeds the cost of the space and refreshments. That's the math.\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/sams-club-takes-manhattan-for-wellness-event-with-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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