Phil Strazzulla claims his platform outranks G2 on shared target search queries
Phil Strazzulla · "Ex VC Bootstrapping New G2 Competitor, 24 Customers, $12k MRR " · Jun 9, 2020 · at 11:31
Phil Strazzulla, founder of Select Software Reviews, explains to Nathan Latka how his platform beats incumbent G2 on specific HR software keywords.
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“I am actually beating them on lots of relevant queries, and they are targeting the same exact queries.”
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