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  "headline": "UPF 50+ sun-safe apparel brand hires Head of Sales to scale U.S. wholesale.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Wholesale channel hire and expansion · Solbari\n\nUPF 50+ sun-safe apparel brand hires Head of Sales to scale U.S. wholesale.\n\nSolbari gets it. You don't expand wholesale by hiring an agency or running more ads. You hire someone who has sold to Dick's or REI or dermatology retailers before, and you let them work. The certification angle (UPF 50+, tested, compliant) is the real product story—that's what a specialty retailer's buyer actually cares about. This is what pre-revenue brands miss: the wholesale channel is not another audience to reach; it's another stakeholder to sell. Different person. Different conversation.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/solbari-2026-06-05t12-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/solbari-2026-06-05t12-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/solbari-2026-06-05t12-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Wholesale channel hire and expansion · Solbari\n\nUPF 50+ sun-safe apparel brand hires Head of Sales to scale U.S. wholesale.\n\nSolbari gets it. You don't expand wholesale by hiring an agency or running more ads. You hire someone who has sold to Dick's or REI or dermatology retailers before, and you let them work. The certification angle (UPF 50+, tested, compliant) is the real product story—that's what a specialty retailer's buyer actually cares about. This is what pre-revenue brands miss: the wholesale channel is not another audience to reach; it's another stakeholder to sell. Different person. Different conversation.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/solbari-2026-06-05t12-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/solbari-2026-06-05t12-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/solbari-2026-06-05t12-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Wholesale channel hire and expansion · Solbari\n\nUPF 50+ sun-safe apparel brand hires Head of Sales to scale U.S. wholesale.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/solbari-2026-06-05t12-2",
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      "title": "UPF 50+ sun-safe apparel brand hires Head of Sales to scale U.S. wholesale.",
      "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 Yahoo Finance, Australian UPF 50+ sun-protection brand Solbari launched U.S. wholesale expansion and appointed Grayson Davis as Head of Sales, targeting certified daily sun-safe apparel placements across specialty retail.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): when you move from DTC to wholesale, hire the wholesale person BEFORE you pitch stores. A Head of Sales who understands specialty retail (outdoor chains, dermatology clinics, sun-care retailers) can negotiate better terms and placement because they know the buyer's constraints—shrink, compliance, inventory turnover. Don't pitch retailers with your marketing deck; pitch them with your sales leader's relationships and knowledge of what their shelf actually needs.\nWhat that means for you: Solbari gets it. You don't expand wholesale by hiring an agency or running more ads. You hire someone who has sold to Dick's or REI or dermatology retailers before, and you let them work. The certification angle (UPF 50+, tested, compliant) is the real product story—that's what a specialty retailer's buyer actually cares about. This is what pre-revenue brands miss: the wholesale channel is not another audience to reach; it's another stakeholder to sell. Different person. Different conversation.\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 — Yahoo Finance: http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a22ba68715e4566b70a7b3718fd07e3&url=https%3a%2f%2ffinance.yahoo.com%2fsectors%2fhealthcare%2farticles%2fsolbari-launches-u-wholesale-expansion-130000928.html&c=11050877536193348795&mkt=pl-pl.)\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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