HIGHLIGHTS • How Adding a Service Can Future-Proof Your Business w/ Taylor Rae
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We've taken clips highlighting some of the topics discussed in the full episode and put them together here! Check it out if you want a bite-sized version of the full episode.
Master Color Influencer of the Year 2022 @taylorrae_hair shares her path to creative color. We also get into the specifics of her work with extensions and the reasons for her increased extensions clientele.
This Week's Topics:
• Getting her first position as an assistant; lack of growth and training
• Building her clientele by taking every client
• Creating a specific hair page early in Instagram days; vivids taking off
• Her travel and involvement with Pravana
• Her work with extensions
• Her social media presence and strategy
• Her Hair horror story
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, editor of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | You're listening to highlights of episode 247 with Taylor Ray Hair. |
| 0:16.6 | This will be your Cliff Notes version of the full episode, a few tasty tidbits, if you will. |
| 0:21.3 | So if you like what you hear, go ahead and click over to that full episode. |
| 0:25.1 | They get in depth on all these topics and more. |
| 0:29.0 | Also, if you like these highlights episodes, you've been listening to them for the past few weeks, |
| 0:32.9 | send us a DM at the Hairgame podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | Let us know that you're enjoying them and let us know what you think so that we'll continue |
| 0:38.8 | doing them. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:41.9 | So were you able to build clients as an assistant? |
| 0:47.3 | Or, I mean, was that part of the deal there at that salon? |
| 0:52.0 | Not particularly. |
| 0:53.1 | I was salon bitch for all. |
| 0:57.3 | Sorry, if I'm not allowed to say that, I can. |
| 0:59.7 | You can say bitch all day long. |
| 1:01.6 | Okay. |
| 1:02.6 | As long as it makes sense when you say bitch. |
| 1:05.2 | Like if you call me a bitch, that doesn't make any sense. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.3 | So I was for all intent and purpose, just the salon go-to person. I got lunches. I got coffee. I cleaned. I did laundry. And then I also did assist the owner. You know, I would hold his extensions when he would do it. I would do his gray retouches. I would co-blow dry with him, you know, different. I would hold the foil board, like all of those things. |
| 1:29.2 | So no, I was not able to build a clientele while I was in assistance. |
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