Crm App Business

7 Crm App Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: October 9th, 2024

Struggling to manage customer interactions effectively? Consider starting a CRM app business. A CRM, or Customer Relationship Management app, helps businesses streamline communications, track leads, and nurture customer relationships—all from one central platform.

Imagine providing businesses with the tools they need to boost their sales and improve customer satisfaction. With more companies shifting their focus to personalized customer experience, your CRM app could be the key to unlocking their success.

The path to developing a CRM app involves defining core features, collaborating with skilled developers, and implementing marketing strategies to capture your target market. It's a legwork-intensive venture, but the potential payoff is substantial.

Ready to create a tool that businesses can't live without? Dive into the CRM app market, where the intersection of technology and customer relationship management holds unlimited possibilities for growth and innovation.

In this list, you'll find real-world CRM app business success stories and very profitable examples of starting a CRM app business that makes money.

1. Promys ($4.5M/year)

In starting their business, the founder realized the need for a workflow system to offset the complexity of a growing company. Unable to find a suitable solution in the market, they had their development team build the first version and eventually spun it out as a focused business. Throughout the process, they emphasized the importance of getting an early version of the product to customers to gather feedback and make necessary adjustments.

How much money it makes: $4.5M/year

Our CRM Suite Just Hit $3M ARR

This case study follows a serial entrepreneur's journey in the Information Technology industry, where he founded successful companies such as UNIS LUMIN and Promys, and offers advice to aspiring founders, emphasizing the importance of adjusting to changing markets and learning from early customers' input.

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2. noCRM.io ($2.64M/year)

Sunny Paris, co-founder of noCRM.io, came up with the idea to create a lead management software after realizing the limitations of traditional CRM software during his time with Yoolink. Despite the competitive CRM market, Sunny saw an opportunity to bring something new and more efficient to salespeople. The company has since grown to $2.4M in annual recurring revenue and has a customer base of over 11,000 salespeople worldwide.

How much money it makes: $2.64M/year
How much did it cost to start: $80K
How many people on the team: 19

How We Pivoted From A Corporate Social Networking To A $2.4M/Year CRM SaaS Business

This case study is about noCRM.io, a French SaaS company with over 11,000 salespeople using their software worldwide, that provides a lead management software for salespeople, and has managed to build its business up to $2.4M in annual recurring revenue and $200K in average monthly revenue.

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3. GreenRope ($1.92M/year)

metrics for our business are our customer satisfaction and retention rates, which remain consistently high. We currently have over 1,000 customers in over 20 countries, ranging from startups to universities and municipalities. Moving forward, we plan to continue evolving and improving our platform to meet the changing needs of businesses and provide even greater value to our customers.

How much money it makes: $1.92M/year
How many people on the team: 15

On Starting A $160K/Month CRM & Automations Company After A US Air Force Career

GreenRope, a self-funded CRM and marketing automation platform with over 1,000 customers in 20 countries, was built organically and focused on creating a positive, customer-centric culture without outside investment, with an all-in-one interface solving challenges in managing sales, marketing, customer service, and operations.

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4. Studio Ninja ($1.8M/year)

Chris Garbacz, a professional wedding photographer, came up with the idea for Studio Ninja after experiencing various challenges in his photography business, including forgetting his camera bag on a wedding day. He realized the need for a user-friendly and comprehensive solution to manage his leads, clients, contracts, and invoices, leading him to create Studio Ninja, the world's most user-friendly photography business management app. With 7,000 active subscribers and monthly recurring revenue of $150,000, Studio Ninja has become a successful tool for photographers worldwide.

How much money it makes: $1.8M/year
How much did it cost to start: $75K
How many people on the team: 13

I Harnessed My Photography Experience & Built A $1.8M/Year Photography CRM

Studio Ninja is a photography business management app that has achieved 6 years of success, with 7,000 active paying subscribers and monthly recurring revenue of $150,000, thanks to co-founder Chris Garbacz's experiences and failures as a wedding photographer and serial entrepreneur.

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5. Revetize ($300K/year)

Richard realized his solar company was losing revenue due to inadequate referral systems and a lack of online reviews.

In response, he searched for reputation and referral generation platforms but found the market underserved for smaller offline businesses.

In 2017, he contacted Jordan Richardson, who had experience in app development. Jordan introduced him to a no-code tool that could expedite their idea’s market launch, leading to the conceptualization of Revitize.

How much money it makes: $300K/year

How Jordan Richardson Built Revetize To $300K ARR Using No-Code Tool

Revetize, a customer marketing CRM crafted to enhance reviews, referrals, and loyalty campaigns, achieved swift monetization in just three months and generates a robust $25K per month, demonstrating the power of no-code tools like Bubble.io for rapid market entry.

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6. Agiled ($120K/year)

Asad Ali, founder and CEO of Agiled, came up with the idea for his all-in-one business management software while running a web development agency. Frustrated with switching between multiple tools, he decided to create a centralized platform to help business owners efficiently manage their operations. Since launching in early 2020 and with the help of an Appsumo launch, Agiled has grown to serve over 5,000 companies and generate $10k/month in revenue.

How much money it makes: $120K/year
How much did it cost to start: $10K
How many people on the team: 15

I Bootstrapped A $120K/Year Business Management SaaS From Pakistan

Agiled is a bootstrapped business management software company founded by Asad Ali that has generated $10k/month serving over 5,000 companies, with a goal of reaching $100k MRR by the end of next year.

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7. TeleCRM ($60K/year)

Rahul, the co-founder of Flamon Cloudtech, came up with the idea for TeleCRM while struggling to manage salespeople for his previous SaaS product. Frustrated with the limitations of existing CRM systems, he envisioned a CRM that would simplify data entry and analysis for sales executives. After validating the idea with 800 business owners and spending over 2.5 years developing the product, TeleCRM launched successfully and attracted its first paying customers.

How much money it makes: $60K/year
How much did it cost to start: $200K
How many people on the team: 16

I Built A CRM To Solve My Own Problem & Now It Makes $60K/Year [India]

Flamon cloudtech's co-founder Rahul shares the story of building and launching TeleCRM, a game-changing Tele-Sales CRM product in beta phase, which is already being used by 20 companies with a monthly recurring revenue of $4500/month and is aiming to capture around 40-50% of the CRM market space in the long term.

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