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  "company": "Jordan Brand",
  "headline": "Jordan Brand launches strength training equipment line, expands beyond footwear.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ STEEL · Category expansion · Jordan Brand\n\nJordan Brand launches strength training equipment line, expands beyond footwear.\n\nif you own a category in apparel or footwear, look one step upstream at the equipment category that feeds it. A basketball shoe customer already buys training equipment — you are just not capturing that wallet. Design the equipment for your customer's specific use case (strength training for NBA bodies, not general fitness), package it with brand-imprinted identity infrastructure (the box, the accessories, the guide), and sell it at the same margin as the apparel. The product sells itself because the customer already trusts the brand.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/jordan-brand-2026-09-18t15-5\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/jordan-brand-2026-09-18t15-5\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/jordan-brand-2026-09-18t15-5",
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      "title": "Jordan Brand launches strength training equipment line, expands beyond footwear.",
      "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 👇\nJordan Brand debuted a training equipment line, extending its brand into the performance equipment category, per Retail Dive.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you own a category in apparel or footwear, look one step upstream at the equipment category that feeds it. A basketball shoe customer already buys training equipment — you are just not capturing that wallet. Design the equipment for your customer's specific use case (strength training for NBA bodies, not general fitness), package it with brand-imprinted identity infrastructure (the box, the accessories, the guide), and sell it at the same margin as the apparel. The product sells itself because the customer already trusts the brand.\nWhat that means for you: if you own a category in apparel or footwear, look one step upstream at the equipment category that feeds it. A basketball shoe customer already buys training equipment — you are just not capturing that wallet. Design the equipment for your customer's specific use case (strength training for NBA bodies, not general fitness), package it with brand-imprinted identity infrastructure (the box, the accessories, the guide), and sell it at the same margin as the apparel. The product sells itself because the customer already trusts the brand.\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/jordan-brand-debuts-strength-training-equipment-line/830659/.)\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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