Phorest Ranks Number One for 700 Salon-Related Search Terms
Ronan Percival · 1593 Why His SMB Churn is 6% When Everyone Elses is 12% doing $12m in ARR across 5000 Salon Owners · Dec 4, 2019 · at 6:00
Ronan Percival, founder and CEO of Phorest Salon Software, details the company's inbound SEO footprint and keyword strategy.
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“Yes, we rank number one for 700 different items around salons, so things like yeah, really quickly top Salon signs. I think is an example of one.”
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