Ep. 298 • How Much Time (& Effort) Should I Put into TikTok? w/ Meg Gilbert
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Salon owner & Brand Ambassador @mermeghair woke up one day completely locked out of her Instagram account. This forced her focus to TikTok, where she has thrived and gained countless clients. We discuss the current state of social media and how to use your time & energy effectively on these platforms.
This Week's Topics:
• Using the same content on Instagram vs TikTok
• Having the personality for social media
• How much time/effort to spend on TT
• What hair videos are doing the best on TT
• Monetizing on TT vs IG
• Her brand deals with companies
• Experience with Bond Builders
• Charging hourly
• Hair loss and nutrition
• Almost quitting hair during a toxic salon experience
• People inspiring her in the industry
• Her Hair Horror Story
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| 0:00.0 | I'm actually happy that my Instagrams were taken down because it kind of lit a fire under me to move forward more with my TikTok and seeing that growth was really, really cool and inspiring. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi, I'm Christina Cretel. I'm Maggie Mulhern from Modern Salon Media. Hi, I'm Eric Vaughn. Hello, Todd the Hair Best East and Atlanta Land. |
| 0:21.8 | This is Guy Tang and welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:27.8 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:30.2 | Salon Republic Huntington Beach has opened about a week and a half ago, two weeks ago. |
| 0:35.0 | We have opened. |
| 0:35.9 | We offer all the things that we do at Salon |
| 0:38.1 | Republic, the towel service, complementary. We do the in-salon beauty supply, so you don't need to |
| 0:45.5 | salon-centric. You could just walk right down the hall and get all the color and everything else |
| 0:52.0 | that you need developer, everything. We even sell extensions. |
| 0:56.0 | All of that there. We have an on-site manager full-time. Her name is Chris. So if you call or |
| 1:01.0 | if you email us, it'll be Chris who answers. Chris has been managing salons with us for many, many years. |
| 1:09.0 | She knows what she is doing and she can show you around. |
| 1:12.7 | SalonRepublic.com for contact information and details. Also in news, we have video versions of our |
| 1:20.0 | episodes on the YouTube channel. It's the Hair Game YouTube channel and then go to the |
| 1:24.4 | Hair Game podcast playlist and you can watch my guests and I wrap it out. |
| 1:30.5 | The same thing that you hear every time you can actually hear and watch, which is kind of cool. |
| 1:35.7 | Now to my conversation with Mermag. |
| 1:39.4 | Hey, Meg, how are you? |
| 1:41.3 | I'm awesome. How are you? |
| 1:43.1 | I'm doing fantastic. So I was on your |
| 1:46.9 | Instagram earlier this morning. I was writing questions for you and I was on your Instagram and I saw |
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