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  "headline": "Direct mail and mall pop-ups drove customer acquisition and reactivation, per Retail Dive.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Distribution Play}\n◆ STEEL · Offline customer acquisition mix · Torrid\n\nDirect mail and mall pop-ups drove customer acquisition and reactivation, per Retail Dive.\n\nDirect mail feels retro, but it's working because everyone else stopped doing it. Attention is cheap in the physical mailbox. Pair it with a pop-up and you've got a two-touch play: mail reminds them, physical presence closes them. This is not a guess — it's in the earnings call.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/torrid-2026-06-05t18-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/torrid-2026-06-05t18-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/torrid-2026-06-05t18-5",
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      "title": "Direct mail and mall pop-ups drove customer acquisition and reactivation, per Retail Dive.",
      "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 👇\nRetail Dive reported that Torrid deployed direct mail and physical pop-ups in malls as dual channels for acquiring new customers and reactivating dormant ones.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): reactivating a lapsed customer costs 60-80% less than acquiring a new one. Most DTC brands chase new because it feels like growth. Torrid proved the opposite: a well-timed mail piece to someone who bought 18 months ago, offering a specific incentive to return, pulls them back cheaper than a Facebook ad chasing a stranger. Run this: pull a list of customers who bought once 12-24 months ago and haven't returned. Mail them a postcard with a specific offer tied to a new product line they'd care about. Track the code or discount link. If 3-5% reactivate, you've unlocked a repeatable channel.\nWhat that means for you: Direct mail feels retro, but it's working because everyone else stopped doing it. Attention is cheap in the physical mailbox. Pair it with a pop-up and you've got a two-touch play: mail reminds them, physical presence closes them. This is not a guess — it's in the earnings call.\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 — Retail Dive: https://www.retaildive.com/news/torrid-mail-mall-customer-acquisition-reactivation-q1-earnings/822120/.)\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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