Ep. 439 • Unlock the Data Behind the Beauty Industry w/Alain Audet
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Hair Game Podcast, Alain Audet, shares his extensive journey in the beauty and fashion industry, discussing his experiences in various roles and his current position at Salon Interactive. He elaborates on the importance of the KIM Report, a new initiative aimed at collecting and analyzing industry data to provide valuable insights for beauty professionals. The conversation also touches on the challenges of data collection in a fragmented industry, trends in service pricing, and the significance of understanding average versus median pricing. Alain emphasizes the accessibility of the KIM Report for salon professionals and the potential benefits it offers to the industry.
Key Takeaways:
• Alain's introduction into the beauty and fashion industry
• How the KIM Report collects vital industry data for better decision-making
• Data collection in the beauty industry faces significant challenges
• Retail sales in salons have been declining for three consecutive years
• Understanding average vs. median pricing is crucial for salons
• The evolution of Salon E-Commerce
• How to understand the data behind your salon
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| 0:00.0 | When I said earlier in this episode that people are creative, every single week, 3,000 new service names are created. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, I'm Ray Christopher. |
| 0:10.3 | It's Gina Bianca. |
| 0:11.5 | Ashley Norman here. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:13.1 | It's Gordon Miller. |
| 0:13.8 | Welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:25.0 | It's Harry here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | We have some very exciting information. |
| 0:34.0 | Salon Republic just opened a brand new location in Philadelphia, our first ever East Coast location. |
| 0:39.1 | You can go to salonrepublic.com to book your space and find your new home. A little bit later, we'll have a new location in Jankentown, a little north of Philadelphia. Go to Salamrepublic.com |
| 0:45.1 | and get notified and we're going to be beginning tours. Now on to our episode with Alain-a-a-day. |
| 0:52.7 | So, Al-A, I was born Eric Di Giacomo. I have an Italian last name. I have an Italian |
| 1:00.2 | side of my family on my dad's side. And Di Jocamo, you know, those sounds are in the English language, |
| 1:07.3 | but it has the oddity of being spaced into two names, D.I. Space, capital |
| 1:13.5 | G. And then the GIA, which is unusual in English. So I was called de wacamole and de jockstrap and all sorts of |
| 1:23.8 | other derivations that were not fun when I was going through school. |
| 1:29.2 | And it wasn't just the students who were calling me these things. |
| 1:32.6 | The teachers who could not get Di Jocamo out of their minds. |
| 1:35.7 | So I imagine that your name gets butchered regularly, and you're probably used to it. |
| 1:42.0 | I am. |
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