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Helgeson says GreenRope charges roughly $250 monthly and avoids per-seat pricing

Lars Helgeson · 1533 How Greenrope CRM Bootstrapped to $2.7M in ARR · Oct 5, 2019 · at 2:21

Lars Helgeson, founder of CRM software GreenRope, explains the company's pricing model to the host.

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“On average, it's about 250 dollars a month. We do not charge per user, which is very different from the way most CRMs work.”

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