HIGHLIGHTS • How to up Your Game by Being Observant w/ Matty Conrad
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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Men's grooming expert and award-winning barber @mattyconrad joined us again at ISSE and we had some great discussions on how to find your client's true style, industry trends, and what's more important: the service or the experience.
This Week's Topics:
• Trends and phases
• Authenticity
• Becoming the beard expert
• Lack of grooming knowledge from clients
• Being observant and finding the client's style
• The importance of the haircut vs the client's experience
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.6 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:09.6 | Hope you guys are liking these interviews that we did during ISSC. |
| 0:13.5 | There's a few more coming up, and I think you're going to like them. |
| 0:16.4 | We're very busy getting a lot of great content for you guys. |
| 0:20.2 | Speaking of ISSC, if you haven't heard, |
| 0:22.9 | it is changing. It will no longer be called ISSE and it will no longer be in Long Beach. So the |
| 0:30.6 | organizations that put together Premier, Premier Orlando, there's several premieres, but Premier Orlando, I think, is a big one that everybody |
| 0:39.4 | knows about. Those organizations are going to organize a hair show called Premier in Anaheim. And that's |
| 0:50.1 | going to start, I believe, next year, 2003. So there's going to be premieres in Anaheim, Orlando, |
| 0:59.2 | San Antonio, and Columbus. And of course, Cosmaprof, not of course, but Cosmoproff will remain |
| 1:07.4 | in Vegas. It's put on by the same organizations. And then in 2024, that organization is Vegas is put on by the same organizations and then in 2024 that organization is going |
| 1:14.1 | to put on a premiere in Miami okay so no more ISSE Long Beach is going to be premier |
| 1:22.1 | anaheim starting next year 2023 how about that okay let's talk pod loot this is the middle of the |
| 1:30.7 | month which means you have a couple weeks to write reviews on the apple podcast app and get your |
| 1:36.6 | name the bag for the drawing for the monthly podalute giveaway i will give you more details at the |
| 1:42.9 | end of the show now Now to my conversation with |
| 1:45.6 | Maddie Conrad. I mean, that's a great big battle for almost every element of our industry, |
| 1:52.2 | too. You know, so I mean, if it's an industry focused thing, then we're all struggling for |
| 1:56.7 | relevancy. We're all struggling to be fresh and new and keep things exciting. And I mean, there's always going to be these external circumstances that happen, which lend themselves to just not being that. |
| 2:07.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 2:08.6 | It's like that client that comes in and sits in your chair every four weeks and goes, |
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