{"id":86021,"date":"2025-07-17T22:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/rare-beautys-anonymous-insider-spills-the-tea-on-their-new-substack\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:17:46","slug":"rare-beautys-anonymous-insider-spills-the-tea-on-their-new-substack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/rare-beautys-anonymous-insider-spills-the-tea-on-their-new-substack\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Beauty\u2019s \u201canonymous insider\u201d spills the tea on their new Substack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve lately been utilizing Substack to search out new music to take heed to. That\u2019s in all probability not fairly what its founders had in thoughts, nevertheless it has a ton of newsletters written by individuals who simply actually love music. It\u2019s much less skilled music criticism and extra \u201chey, this album was nice, give it a hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s not the one off-label use for Substack. At this time\u2019s grasp of promoting can be a Substack fan \u2014 and she or he took a giant threat with it.<\/p>\n

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Meet the Grasp<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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MacKenzie Kassab<\/h2>\n

Director of Inventive Technique, Rare Beauty<\/a><\/h3>\n

Declare to fame:<\/strong> Launched Uncommon Magnificence\u2019s \u201csemi-authorized\u201d Substack newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Lesson 1: Get interested by your individual product.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Novelty wears off quick while you\u2019re within the trenches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking within the workplace, [our product] is one thing\u201d \u2014 a brand new blush, say \u2014 \u201cthat we\u2018re round on a regular basis. We go to conferences about how merchandise are made each week,\u201d Kassab tells me. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really feel essentially thrilling from the within while you’re in it for a 12 months and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n

However your viewers\u2019s first peek at a brand new product? That\u2019s<\/em> magical.<\/p>\n

While you\u2019re brainstorming new content material, give it some thought out of your shoppers\u2019 perspective. <\/strong>What are you aware that they don\u2019t? In the event you\u2019re advertising a brand new services or products, what acquired you enthusiastic about it within the first place?<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that Kassab would possibly attend weekly conferences a couple of new product, she\u2019s not essentially there each step of the best way. So for her newsletters, she takes the chance \u201cto search out out a few of the bloopers, or [other] issues that occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

For one publication, Kassab sat down with Uncommon Magnificence\u2019s chief product officer to get the inside track on how the newest blush came to be<\/a>. One purpose they developed a powder blush? Some clients discovered Uncommon Magnificence\u2019s famed liquid blush too<\/em> pigmented. Not one thing you\u2019ll hear most magnificence corporations admit.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo share these and see how excited folks get [about this information] \u2014 that’s actually rewarding and makes it fascinating.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lesson 2: Embrace your imperfections.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Like a center schooler with their first palette, the street to the right liquid blush is lined with some extremely pigmented errors.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tempting to brush these below the rug, however bear in mind: All people loves a blooper reel. Whether or not it\u2019s out of your fav TV present or it\u2019s a couple of new lipstick, sharing errors breaks down the artifice between shopper and producer. Form of a \u201cCelebrities, they\u2019re similar to us!\u201d in your advertising technique.<\/p>\n

Plus, it brings a human component to her newsletters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re displaying the trials and tribulations of constructing a product. So I believe embracing the concept that at the same time as a giant model, we’re not good both<\/strong> \u2014 we hit bumpy roads and issues end up okay in the long run,\u201d Kassab says. \u201cI hope that sort of factor is encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Lesson 3: Respect the platform.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kassab\u2019s thought to launch a Uncommon Magnificence Substack publication had a easy origin: She was already a Substack fan.<\/p>\n

Designed to publish particular person voices, Substack has constructed a group that jogs my memory a little bit of early social media \u2014 again when everyone was having a very good time as a substitute of doomscrolling ourselves to sleep each evening. It\u2019s a spot that tends to worth good writing over self-promotion. Introducing a model voice to that ecosystem was at all times going to be a threat.<\/p>\n

However in some methods, Kassab isn\u2019t<\/em> a model voice. That\u2019s underscored by her cheeky Gossip Woman<\/em>-esque signoffs, the \u201csemi-authorized\u201d nameless byline, and even by how lean her staff is. (\u201cIt\u2019s a really scrappy staff,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s me.\u201d) Despite the fact that she\u2019s representing Uncommon Magnificence, she\u2019s nonetheless a solo content material creator.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t fear, the lesson right here isn\u2019t to scale back all<\/em> your content material to at least one particular person. (Except you’re a very small enterprise, please don\u2019t<\/em> try this; I encourage on behalf of writers in all places.)<\/p>\n

In the event you\u2019re going to take a threat like Kassab and Uncommon Magnificence did, take into consideration the worth that customers are getting from the platform \u2014 and work with that, not in opposition to it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Lingering Questions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This Week\u2019s Query<\/h3>\n

What’s your favourite factor about advertising that may\u2019t be simply measured? <\/strong>\u2014Brenna Loury<\/a>, CMO, Doist<\/p>\n

This Week\u2019s Reply<\/h3>\n

Kassab: The emotional connection. I like the best way advertising could make folks really feel one thing. It might be inspiration, motivation, curiosity, nostalgia, or only a second of pleasure. For us it comes right down to self-acceptance and belonging. That connection drives every little thing we do, regardless of how inconceivable it’s to quantify (though I\u2019m positive AI is attempting).<\/p>\n

Serving to even one particular person in our group really feel seen and cozy of their pores and skin\u2014I like a lot about my work, however that\u2019s actually what provides all of it that means.<\/p>\n

Subsequent Week\u2019s Lingering Query<\/h3>\n

Kassab asks: What\u2019s your least favourite a part of your job, and the way do you inspire your self to get via it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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