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  "company": "Smoothie King",
  "headline": "Smoothie King bedazzles protein cup, limits edition, launches limited-run positioning.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GOLD · Limited-edition branded cup design · Smoothie King\n\nSmoothie King bedazzles protein cup, limits edition, launches limited-run positioning.\n\nPackaging is still the most underrated media. A bedazzled cup is not fancy — it's a social trigger. Someone buys a pretty cup, shows it, keeps it on their desk, and the brand lives in their space rent-free. That's not a cup; that's a media buy disguised as product. Next play: put the QR code inside the bottom so every keeper has to visit the store to scan it.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/smoothie-king-2026-10-07t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/smoothie-king-2026-10-07t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/smoothie-king-2026-10-07t18-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GOLD · Limited-edition branded cup design · Smoothie King\n\nSmoothie King bedazzles protein cup, limits edition, launches limited-run positioning.\n\nPackaging is still the most underrated media. A bedazzled cup is not fancy — it's a social trigger. Someone buys a pretty cup, shows it, keeps it on their desk, and the brand lives in their space rent-free. That's not a cup; that's a media buy disguised as product. Next play: put the QR code inside the bottom so every keeper has to visit the store to scan it.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/smoothie-king-2026-10-07t18-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/smoothie-king-2026-10-07t18-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/smoothie-king-2026-10-07t18-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GOLD · Limited-edition branded cup design · Smoothie King\n\nSmoothie King bedazzles protein cup, limits edition, launches limited-run positioning.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/smoothie-king-2026-10-07t18-3",
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      "title": "Smoothie King bedazzles protein cup, limits edition, launches limited-run positioning.",
      "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 👇\nSmoothie King launched a limited-edition bedazzled cup for its Pretty, Pretty Protein Smoothie, creating a collectible packaging moment tied to product, per PR Newswire.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): a limited-edition branded cup is a $0.50 production spend that customers will hold for weeks, display, and photograph for social. Print a QR code or reorder window inside or on the base. The cup becomes a mini-billboard that travels. Do not make every cup bedazzled — reserve it for one product, one season, one batch. Scarcity on the vessel, not the drink.\nWhat that means for you: Packaging is still the most underrated media. A bedazzled cup is not fancy — it's a social trigger. Someone buys a pretty cup, shows it, keeps it on their desk, and the brand lives in their space rent-free. That's not a cup; that's a media buy disguised as product. Next play: put the QR code inside the bottom so every keeper has to visit the store to scan it.\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 — PR Newswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/protein-gets-bedazzled-smoothie-king-launches-the-delicious--nutritious-pretty-pretty-protein-smoothie-in-a-limited-edition-bedazzled-cup-302900577.html.)\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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