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Should customer success have veto power over bad-fit customers?

ChurnZero

In 2001, author and consultant Patricia Seybold could see that technology was having a profound impact on business economics. The customer, she wrote in her book “ The Customer Revolution ,” was in charge. Businesses had to become more customer-centric.

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CS in Conversation: Focus on Adoption to Demonstrate the Need for Customer Success

Amity

And like the pioneers in marketing, there is a lot we can learn by revisiting how the pioneers in Customer Success, like Paul Teshima, realized why helping customers succeed was integral to SaaS success and in doing so, shaped this discipline. Amity: You were a pioneer in the Customer Success – how did you break ground?

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