“We spend most of our time and money on the front end, trying to understand the problem that the client customer is trying to solve”

Jim Cobb · Entrepreneurs on Fire · Building Brands That Last: How Understanding Customer Psychology Creates Business Growth with Jim Cobb

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Allocate the majority of marketing budget to front-end research to define the customer's problem before any creative execution

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