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What is a customer? Define it before you integrate.

October 16, 2026

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When you connect two systems, the first thing to settle is a word everybody thinks they already know.

When I talk with people who want to integrate, one of the first points of friction is almost always "what is a customer?" Everybody thinks it should be obvious. "It's a customer, they pay us." But HubSpot has "a contact and we have a company," and the two can be related, so the system has to be told which one you mean.

Talk it through first. It is much cheaper than finding out after the data starts to flow.

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