Hey listeners, this is The Hair Game and I'm your host, Eric Taylor. This episode is our

part two with Don Gottfried, the dawn of social media, the guy behind nothing but pixies, all about

the hair, fiddint, and lots of other very popular accounts on Instagram. There will be parts

of this that you should be looking at your phone

while listening. Otherwise, it may be a little bit hard to follow along. You'll see what I'm

talking about when we get there. It is now time for our weekly PodLute giveaway. This week

is a $200 GHD gold professional one-inch styler and flat iron. And the

winner is the hair chika. The hair chica, DM me at Love Eric Taylor or Salon

Republic on Instagram and I'll send it to you. You have to be listening to win. At the end of the

episode, I'll tell you what we're going to be giving away next week and how you can win that.

Enjoy the episode. All right, so I'm sitting here with Don G. Don Godfrey, the dawn of social

media. This is our second episode now.

And as of the recording of this, you are the holder of our number one downloaded episode,

which is back a few months.

Don is, for those of you who don't know Don, he's an Instagram coach for many of our communities most popular Instagram accounts.

You've been doing Instagram for a number of years now and you still help people, right?

Yeah.

Over the phone, you do phone calls for people and all that kind of stuff.

We'll talk about that at the end.

But since this is part two, has anything changed on Instagram since part one?

The algorithm changed multiple times again.

So as of right now, hashtags are becoming more effective, where for the longest time you did hashtags and nobody was getting seen. So everyone's complaining about the algorithm, only hitting like 7% on stuff on the news feed,

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