In my blog post last week (Product Pictures Part Deux), I dropped a quick suggestion that really deserved more time than I gave it, so I am dedicating an entire series to the cause.  Before I linked to my second GIMP tutorial, I said that the most important tip for making your product pictures look [...]

Are you still using dial up Internet? The price might be right, but what about the time it takes to load pages? It takes about 3-4 times as long to browse the web on a dial up connection versus a high-speed one. What else could you be doing instead of waiting for pages to load? [...]

The new 4th of July stencil package will be a great addition to your stencil library, but for the 4th of July, any stencil can be patriotic by coloring it red, white and blue.
Incidentally, do you know how to get a beautiful navy blue color using our Duratat ink and the Power Palette? Let [...]

People are predictably irrational.
People tend to have long periods when they buy very little punctuated by episodes of buying frenzy.
I’m nuts when it comes to books. I’ll buy ten nonfiction books at a time knowing that I’ll never read half of them. Then, a period will pass where I’ll not buy another book.
I [...]

I have two links for you today.
The first link is a followup to an earlier blog on local search listings. There are some additional places to list, including on that will broadcast your listing to 45 other search engines. Check it out here.
Also, as many of you know, Google is the [...]

This week I have put together another video tutorial for the GIMP concerning product pictures. Fortunately (or unfortunately), this week’s video has audio commentary by yours truly. Kadeera had asked me to be more clear about how to cut out a product picture for a website like you see on most e-commerce sites, and [...]

This week we are focusing on the more advanced website options. This does not necessarily mean you have to be an experienced website creator. It just means you will have the most control over how your website looks and what it can do.
Paid Domain and Hosting
This option is for the more advanced users. From [...]

Enthusiasm is contagious. If you show excitement for your product by wearing it and being up-beat, your enthusiasm will pass on to your customer.
When we first started this business I was a silent observer at one of our carts at the mall. This particular cart was located in a B grade mall in [...]

“Wait a minute!” you say.
“In your last post, Tat artist increases sales 217%, you tell me to build a list… to capture email addresses, names and birthdays.
Are you nuts? You think I got four arms or what?
If I did all that crap, I’d sell less not more. I don’t know what you’re smokin’ Kirk. But, [...]

Often, in our videos and posts, we take about the value of maintaining an e-mail list of your customers. We at TAT International do the same thing with a program called Group Mail.
Group Mail is a simple program that allows you to add, delete, change, and update information on your entire e-mail list. The entry [...]