Ep. 404 • 10 Tips That Help you Succeed in a Salon Studio w/ Christopher Aaron
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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L'Oreal Professional artist & educator @christopheraaronstudio shares his 10 most important aspects of running an indie salon. We dive into topics such as atmosphere, organization, client loyalty, and networking.
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| 0:00.0 | People get mad and I see hairdressers. |
| 0:02.1 | Well, these YouTubers and these influencers, the problem that we've let happen is we've let social media explain to our clients. |
| 0:09.5 | Not us. |
| 0:11.7 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:12.6 | My name's Charlie Gray. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Alison Alhammed. |
| 0:14.5 | Hi, I'm Erica Keelan. |
| 0:15.6 | It's Kia Artistically Neil. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Kimberly Taye Hare and you're listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | Hey, everybody. I'm Kimberly Teher and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:28.1 | Salon Republic has a new location opening in Philadelphia. |
| 0:32.2 | We are hitting the East Coast late this fall, so go to SalonRepublic.com or our link in bio. You can book a virtual tour. |
| 0:40.1 | We'll show you in 3D the space. Find your favorite studio there and get first dibs on your new |
| 0:46.6 | hair home. All right, on to our episode with Christopher Aaron. Hi, Christopher. How are you? |
| 0:57.7 | I'm doing good. How are you? Good. It's good to see you. Before we started recording, we were talking about some of the transitions that you're making with the |
| 1:02.0 | brands. And maybe you could talk about it as little or as much as you want. I think you have an |
| 1:08.5 | idea of when this is going to be released. But before we do that, |
| 1:12.2 | I'm going to introduce you for the listeners who don't know you yet. You're a Chicago area hairdresser. |
| 1:17.5 | You are a salon-centric educator turning into a L'Oreal educator. Same company, by the way, for the |
| 1:26.0 | listeners who don't know. You focus on lived in color |
| 1:29.4 | extensions and gray coverage. And by the way, I love that you have on your Instagram profile |
| 1:36.4 | that you do gray coverage because gray coverage is money in the bank. But a lot of us in this |
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