HIGHLIGHTS • Building a Clientele in the Digital Age w/Kristyn Hamilton
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
- Kristen's journey into hairdressing
- The trainsition from school to the industry
- Building a clientele through social media
- The importance of pre-booking appointments
- Becoming an educator for Danger Jones
- Encouraging stylists to charge their worth
- Community in the beauty industry
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:06.6 | Hey everybody. It's Harry here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. We have some very exciting |
| 0:11.7 | information. Salon Republic just opened a brand new location in Philadelphia, our first ever |
| 0:17.7 | East Coast location. You can go to SalonRepublic.com to book your space and find your new home. |
| 0:23.9 | A little bit later, we'll have a new location in Jankentown, a little north of Philadelphia. |
| 0:28.7 | Go to SalamRepublic.com and get notified and we're going to be beginning tours. |
| 0:33.1 | Now onto our episode with Kristen Hamilton. |
| 0:37.7 | Why was it easy for you to build and keep a clientele versus it might not be so easy for others? |
| 0:45.6 | What can you tell them that can help them build and keep a clientele? |
| 0:50.4 | All of my clients that I have built, like my clientele that I've built, I got from Instagram, mostly. So, like, I was one of the younger stylists at both salons that I was at. And I was the only one out of the whole entire salon basically posting consecutively on |
| 1:11.8 | Instagram. |
| 1:12.8 | And I feel like you can get content with every single client, you know, whether that's |
| 1:18.6 | toning at the bowl or taking after pictures, which my, honestly, my main thing for a really |
| 1:25.8 | long time was just before and after pictures you know um that |
| 1:29.3 | was the thing at the time so videos weren't like a super huge thing then but um i i really like |
| 1:36.9 | photography so i was like very very particular about pictures i still am and some people probably |
| 1:43.0 | think i'm crazy but like I have a whole |
| 1:44.5 | setup now whenever I take after pictures. That was like my main thing was just posting consecutively |
| 1:54.0 | on Instagram. Constantly go home and I'm like looking for content, looking for ideas from other |
| 2:00.2 | people, |
| 2:01.8 | just anything that I can do to make the next post. |
| 2:06.4 | My second salon that I worked at, this was something that did help me build a clientele to a certain extent. |
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