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Ep 50 | Andrea Zen

In this episode of the podcast, Irina Cismas, Head of Marketing at Custify, sits down with Andrea Zen, Customer Success leader at Fairly Made. Andrea breaks down how CS operates at the intersection of sustainability, complex product data, and evolving regulations in fashion traceability. He shares how his background in fashion shaped a deeply customer-centric mindset, how his team manages diverse clients from luxury to mass market, and why success depends not just on retention metrics—but on customer maturity. He also explores how to manage a CS portfolio using revenue and margin logic, fix data gaps between Sales and CS, and balance customer advocacy with strong boundaries in a fast-moving startup.

What You’ll Learn:

☑️ How Andrea transitioned from fashion buying and merchandising into customer success

☑️ Why customer centricity must extend across the entire business—not just CS

☑️ What makes CS in fashion traceability more complex than standard SaaS

☑️ How Fairly Made supports luxury, premium, and mass-market customers with different needs

☑️ Why messy product data is a major operational barrier in fashion tech

☑️ How Andrea uses ARR, churn, renewals, and NRR to assess customer maturity and growth

☑️ Why portfolio management requires balancing revenue, effort, and client margin

☑️ How low-touch experiences can still feel high-value when designed intentionally

☑️ Where customer data is lost between Sales and CS—and how to fix it

☑️ Why CS at Fairly Made depends on regulation knowledge and change management

☑️ How Andrea helps his team balance customer advocacy with strong boundaries

☑️ What non-traditional CS leaders must learn early: SaaS language, business context, and when to say no

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With Custify, you can:

☑️ automate daily tasks through Playbooks

☑️ build individual customer #HealthScores

☑️ create customer segments

☑️ improve your customer communication strategy

☑️ streamline your onboarding process

☑️ track customers’ journeys every step of the way

☑️ get a 360 view of their progress

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