Ep. 242 • The Truth About Creative Color Clients w/ Kimberly Ibbotson

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Business, Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

@kimberlytayhair joins us again to share her journey the past few years. We discuss how adaptation was crucial in starting her new salon and wig company, as well as the specifics of creative color clients and her approach to them.

This Week's Topics:

• Moving away from LA during Covid and starting a salon

• Creative color clients: who are they?

• Her pricing strategy

• Sponsorships

• Where she hopes to be in a couple years

• Artistry in hair: her approach to a head of hair

• Making & Selling her wigs

• Where her new clients are coming from

• Most difficult convo with a client

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0:00.0	I feel like what scares me more than change is just being too comfortable. And I feel like I've been very comfortable because it's the same thing for the last, you know, two, three years that I've been here. So I just felt like it was time to start something new. Hey, guys, my name's Charlie Gray. I'm Alison Alhammed. Hi, I'm Erica Keelan. It's Kia artistically Neil. I'm Kimberly Tayeher, and you're listening to
0:21.5	the Hair Game Podcast. Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. In news, we as Salon Republic are opening a new
0:31.8	salon in Murrieta, California, right next to the Cosma Prof. If that's where you are, you know exactly where I'm talking about.
0:39.3	We're going to have all the same goodness over there, wholesale beauty supply in the salon that, of course,
0:44.6	is going to carry some of the stuff that Cosboproft doesn't have.
0:47.5	Free towel service, in person, and virtual education, on-site manager in the salon to take care of you and your clients
0:56.3	and all the other goodness that we do. Salonrepublic.com for more information. And for the
1:03.1	podcast audience exclusively, if you go into one of our salons, Murrieta or another one of our
1:09.1	salons, tell the manager that I sent you from the Hair Game
1:12.0	podcast and we'll give you a special friends and family credit if you choose a studio.
1:18.8	Speaking of giving things away, pod lute for the first episode in May is going to be, yeah,
1:25.7	I've kind of been coy with this the last few episodes, haven't wanted
1:29.5	to say anything, but I'm going to say it now. It's going to be a one-year all-access subscription
1:34.2	to Hairbrains online education called Hairbrained Live Academy, which is, I think it's
1:42.3	largely known as one of the highest quality education offerings in our industry.
1:47.9	So for a chance to win, write us a review on the Apple Podcast app and include your Instagram handle.
1:54.0	More details at the end of the show free to somebody.
1:57.9	Guys, there's not that many names in the bag.
2:00.8	I tell everybody this. I'm not sure if
2:03.3	anybody actually believes me when I say that, but it is true. You have a good chance of winning
2:07.3	if you get your name in the bag. Now to the episode with Kimberly Ibitson. Hi, Kimberly. How are you?
2:15.1	I'm good. How are you? So I went back and I checked and it was mid-2019 that we did our last episode.
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