Entries from August 2008

Friday, August 29th, 2008

What You Actually Need

The last decade has brought an era of fear. Fear of viruses, spyware, and other potentially harmful intrusions of your personal computer has spread amongst computer users. Currently, most threats can be avoided with a keen eye and a few small, free programs. I have gotten by for almost two years now without any problems [...]

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Booth Set-up #2

Here are the pictures I promised you last week.

As you can see, the booth set up is pretty simple. I have one 4′ work table and one 4′ presentation table. The banner in the back of the booth has all of the tat designs for the customer to choose from. The table [...]

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

What I’m working on…

In my article, The Future of Tats, I claim that we’ll help 1,000 individuals build million dollar tat businesses.
What are we doing now to move forward towards that result?
Here are three immediate objectives:

Help you, our client MVP, book more private events.
Teach you new ways to make money with tats.
Teach you best practices to more profitably [...]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Marketing with Flickr

I have been following a thread on the forum that you can find here about using Flickr. I wanted to share a blog post I found on the Influential Marketing Blog that tells how to use Flickr for marketing purposes. Enjoy!

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Copy now, innovate later

Hey.  I’m going to take this opportunity to let you in on the process I use to teach myself how to do complicated graphics related tasks.  I find something I like, try to copy it, then use those techniques in my own original works.
So what we are going to do with this tutorial is to [...]

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Essential Firefox Extensions

My very first blog post was on the overwhelming benefits of using Mozilla’s Firefox browser. I briefly discussed add-ons and how they can be used to customize your browsing experience and improve your efficiency online. Today I will share my list of Firefox extensions which are essential to enhancing the Internet. All of these can [...]

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Set it up right

I know I said I would have some pictures of booth set up to show you this week and I did not deliver.  Next week I will have them for sure.
Since selling tats at fairs/festivals is a big part of the tat business for so many people,  I think the topic of booth set up [...]

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Bad News and a Gift

I’m sending an email to all of our MVPs today to share some new developments.
Before I get to the bad news, let me tell you about the gift.  The gift is intended to help our MVP Affiliates earn TatStore.com credits.
Any MVP can sign up as an affiliate.  Affiliation is free – exclusively for MVPs.
(If you [...]

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Email marketing simplified

I just wanted to share with you an exceptional email I received from one of our customers that demonstrates what can be done with a well managed email list.
Dear Friends,
Holistic Henna is proud to serve the community and help raise funds and awareness for Cancer.org again this year.
We invite you to attend the “Relay for [...]

Monday, August 18th, 2008

The Best of “Inkscape on youtube”

Hey, here’s the deal.  I was going to show off my brand new mic and make an inkscape tutorial for making buttons that are just a touch more advanced than what I featured two weeks ago.  However, after watching rfquerin’s youtube video about making buttons, I figured that I couldn’t make a better one myself [...]