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One beauty pro on Reddit: 9,000 TikTok followers, maybe 1-2 clients a month. A stylist posting 3x a day: 2 bookings in October.

Clients Google you first, then check Instagram. Fix your Google profile, ask for reviews right, post 2-3x a week.

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Your salon Instagram is a portfolio. New clients find you on Google first.

I've been reading what nail techs, lash artists and stylists say on Reddit about where their clients come from. One thread stuck with me. Someone with about 9,000 TikTok followers said it brings in "maybe 1-2 clients a month." Almost everyone else in the thread answered with one word: Google.

Another stylist, new to renting a chair, was posting three times a day on TikTok and Instagram and had two bookings in October. A lash artist wrote that social media had become "one of the biggest drains on my mental health."

These are individual posts, not industry data. But they all point the same way.

How a client actually picks a salon

1. Search: "lash extensions near me", "balayage [town]"
2. Look at the map: stars, photos, hours, a booking button
3. Tap through to Instagram to check the work looks real and recent
4. Book, if booking is easy

One stylist put it simply: people "google a stylist, and look to insta as a portfolio." Instagram matters at step 3. It almost never does step 1.

Fill in your Google Business Profile properly

• The most specific category ("Nail salon", "Eyelash salon", "Hair salon")
• Every service, named the way clients search for it, with a price
• Hours, including holidays
• Your booking link
• New photos of real work every week. No filters that change the result, no AI-edited "afters"

Ask for reviews, but never pay for them

Ask in person when they're happy in the mirror, then text Google's own review link before they leave. Put the QR code at your station.

Don't offer anything for a review. Google's policy says free or discounted services in exchange for a review count as fake content and are strictly prohibited. "10% off if you leave a review" is out. A referral reward (unrelated to reviews) is fine. Reply to every review, including the three-stars.

Two or three posts a week is enough

Social's job is now small and clear: when someone taps through from Google, they see recent real work. Shoot the finished result in good light, ten seconds of your hands working, and your space. Skip dance trends and follower-chasing. A reel with views from three states away doesn't fill a Tuesday.

What to do today

Open your Google Business Profile, fill in services, prices and your booking link, upload six real photos from the last two weeks, and text your last five happy clients the review link.

If you want the portfolio posts off your plate: with AutoWhisper you upload at least six real photos from your salon and it cuts a short photo-collage video to music and posts it to Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. It only uses your photos and doesn't make before-and-afters. It can't post to Google, so upload the same photos there yourself. A full video is 52 credits and new accounts get 65 free.

Full guide: https://autowhisper.xyz/en/playbook/local-social-vs-google