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Esquivel opens the door to bespoke, hand-made sneakers. A brand new area of interest?

Covid impacted his custom-shoe marketing model, which was based on word-of-mouth and Instagram posts. “Pre-covid, we were killing it on Instagram. For every post we’d sell two to three pairs.” But, users are now overwhelmed with ads, and they have become less effective. There’s “too much noise” on Instagram now, he says. Esquivel designs rough-hewn […]