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  "company": "The Nue Co.",
  "headline": "Fragrance jumped from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta placement",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail partnership expansion · The Nue Co.\n\nFragrance jumped from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta placement.\n\nThis is the inverse of the 'expand the line' playbook. The Nue Co. got surgical — stopped hedging across ten categories and went all-in on one. Ulta gets foot traffic from beauty buyers; The Nue Co. fragrance lands where the customer already wants to look. That alignment is what moved the needle. Most brands spread thin across channels. This one got thin in product, deep in placement.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t21-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t21-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t21-1",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail partnership expansion · The Nue Co.\n\nFragrance jumped from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta placement.\n\nThis is the inverse of the 'expand the line' playbook. The Nue Co. got surgical — stopped hedging across ten categories and went all-in on one. Ulta gets foot traffic from beauty buyers; The Nue Co. fragrance lands where the customer already wants to look. That alignment is what moved the needle. Most brands spread thin across channels. This one got thin in product, deep in placement.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t21-1\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t21-1\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t21-1",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ DIAMOND · Retail partnership expansion · The Nue Co.\n\nFragrance jumped from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta placement.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/the-nue-co-2026-07-19t21-1",
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      "title": "Fragrance jumped from 20% to 85% of sales in two years via Ulta placement",
      "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 👇\nThe Nue Co. shifted fragrance from a minor category to its dominant revenue driver by securing expanded shelf space at Ulta Beauty, per Glossy.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): do not try to be everything in every channel. Pick ONE category that outperforms in your data. Then find ONE retail partner whose customer base already buys that category and negotiate deeper shelf. Fragrance won because it compressed the assortment and maximized the channel's existing demand. Pick your strongest SKU, find the retailer whose traffic matches that buyer, and make space the negotiation — not price.\nWhat that means for you: This is the inverse of the 'expand the line' playbook. The Nue Co. got surgical — stopped hedging across ten categories and went all-in on one. Ulta gets foot traffic from beauty buyers; The Nue Co. fragrance lands where the customer already wants to look. That alignment is what moved the needle. Most brands spread thin across channels. This one got thin in product, deep in placement.\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 — Glossy: https://www.glossy.co/beauty/the-nue-co-ulta-fragrance-growth/?utm_campaign=glossydis&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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