HIGHLIGHTS • Unlock the Data Behind the Beauty Industry w/Alain Audet
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Hair Game Podcast, Alain Audet, shares his extensive journey in the beauty and fashion industry, discussing his experiences in various roles and his current position at Salon Interactive. He elaborates on the importance of the KIM Report, a new initiative aimed at collecting and analyzing industry data to provide valuable insights for beauty professionals. The conversation also touches on the challenges of data collection in a fragmented industry, trends in service pricing, and the significance of understanding average versus median pricing. Alain emphasizes the accessibility of the KIM Report for salon professionals and the potential benefits it offers to the industry.
Key Takeaways:
• Alain's introduction into the beauty and fashion industry
• How the KIM Report collects vital industry data for better decision-making
• Data collection in the beauty industry faces significant challenges
• Retail sales in salons have been declining for three consecutive years
• Understanding average vs. median pricing is crucial for salons
• The evolution of Salon E-Commerce
• How to understand the data behind your salon
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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. |
| 0:40.3 | How did you get into the beauty business? Well, it was like a three kind of three phases episode of getting me into beauty business. |
| 0:46.3 | It started when I was 16 years old. I was a model for Clarell at one of those trade shows. |
| 0:51.3 | So on stage, they actually colored my hair, purple, pink, and yellow. |
| 0:56.1 | And I had to do some aerobic dancing on stage and all that. |
| 0:59.0 | So that's kind of like where I actually discovered the hair salon industry and especially |
| 1:04.6 | the trade show market. |
| 1:06.2 | Many years later... |
| 1:07.1 | You have, by the way, you have amazing hair. |
| 1:10.3 | I think that your amazing hair has followed you around and probably create a reputation of sorts because it's so amazing. |
| 1:17.1 | And for the listeners who are listening on their, in their cars or whatever, on their earbuds, you got to go to YouTube to see Allais' amazing hair. |
| 1:27.1 | Thank you very much. Thank you. I got a lot of compliment, |
| 1:29.5 | but it's genetics. Exactly. No, I blow dry it. This is really what I do with it. So good |
| 1:36.5 | haircuts and blow dry it. Then after university, I wanted to be more creative. I wanted to continue |
| 1:43.9 | working in a creative space, |
| 1:45.2 | and I decided to become a makeup artist. |
| 1:47.5 | So I'm formally trained as a theater makeup artist, |
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