Ep. 72 · Succeeding Through Adversity w/ Mary Rector-Gable @marybehindthechair
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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The creator of behindthechair.com & @behindthechair_com Mary Rector-Gable gives insights into key aspects of running a successful business. We hear the story of her nearly losing it all, as well as how you can get noticed by BTC on your social media.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hair game listener. I'm your host, Eric Taylor. Before we get to this episode, I'll choose the winner of the weekly pod lute. This week, it's beats by Dr. Dre, X Wireless Earphones. Donovan is filming this for Instagram stories. I put the name in a bag, and I'm going to randomly pick one winner and the winner is royal's hair |
| 0:25.0 | and makeup DM me at Love Eric Taylor or Salon Republic on Instagram with your mailing address thank |
| 0:31.7 | you to everybody who entered by writing a review your names remain in the bag and may be chosen |
| 0:36.7 | next week there aren't that many names in this bag so if you write a review because Your names remain in the bag and may be chosen next week. There aren't that |
| 0:38.1 | many names in this bag, so if you write a review because you like what we're doing, you have |
| 0:42.4 | a really good chance of winning something cool. At the end of the episode, I'll tell you what |
| 0:46.3 | we're going to be given away next week and how you can win. Now down to the good stuff. This |
| 0:51.3 | episode is with Mary Rector Gable, also known as Mary Behind the |
| 0:55.5 | Chair on Instagram. I'm sitting here with Mary Rector Gable, the founder of Behind the |
| 1:02.2 | Chair.com. Do you like to call it Behindthechair.com or just behind the chair? So, yeah, |
| 1:06.6 | definitely, I guess it's funny because we call it Behind the Chair.com because at the time, there was no dot coms I mean only 10% of hairdressers even had a computer when we launched |
| 1:16.4 | so originally it was dot com it still is I mean we saw that still is our logo it's interesting |
| 1:21.7 | nobody's ever asked me that question before well there you go right out of the gate something |
| 1:26.4 | new yeah it's always been behind the chair.com for 19 years. |
| 1:29.3 | I was shocked that I was actually able to get that URL, which was kind of interesting that nobody had taken it at that time. |
| 1:35.3 | And what year was that? |
| 1:37.3 | In 1999. |
| 1:40.3 | So the site was launched behind the chair.com. |
| 1:43.3 | This is 10 years before Instagram, eight years before Facebook existed. |
| 1:48.0 | So we've actually been in business. It'll be our 20th anniversary. |
| 1:51.0 | We are in our 20th anniversary year. |
| 1:53.0 | So it'll be our 20th anniversary January of 2020. |
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