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Jun 2019
42m 47s

How To Create a Need and Justify Your Us...

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In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Tyson Wilson of Shred Defender on how he built a completely new product category, educated his target demographic on the use case, and generated a need for Shed Defenders. 
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