Here we are again, back at the mall. We have come a long way; we have negotiated a great deal from the mall for our kiosk, on a month to month basis. We are all set up and have now hired and trained a few employees.

We have had all of our employees sign our Affidavit, stating that they will not place a tat in an improper place on the body. Failing to follow these guidelines could result in prosecution. As a guide line, a tat can be placed on any area of the body where the customer could walk around the mall with the tat exposed.

We have made copies of the care instruction sheet provided in the marketing portfolio. On the reverse side of the care instruction sheet we have added our business name, phone number and in bold, black letters we state “We Do Parties“.

We placed a sign on our kiosk stating “If you do not get a receipt, your tat is free”.

We have $100 in our cash register for a start drawer.

We have placed an “evidence book” at our kiosk with pictures of some of the tats we have sprayed on other customers. If you don’t have any pictures for this book you will want to have a camera at your kiosk to take pictures of your customers’ tats. Always ask the customers’ permission before you take their picture. The evidence book gives people waiting at your kiosk something to look through while they wait.

We are now open for business. It’s a little slow at the mall but people are beginning to wander about. To get things started we ask the worker at the next kiosk if they would like a free tat. They jump at the opportunity. We begin spraying and now we have a show going, people are coming over to watch and ask questions. We are in business!

Since we have hired outgoing people they are interacting with the people who are getting a tat and people waiting in line. They point to the framed tats with crystal accents and ask if they would like to add any extra crystals for $1 per crystal. After spraying the tat, the money is collected and the customer is given a copy of the care instructions.

We keep our kiosk neat and clean. We clean each stencil before we place it back in the file. The waste basket is emptied when the maintenance person comes by to empty the trash. If it gets full before that time, we simply empty it in the trash container placed in the mall. When business slows down a little, we check the appearance of the kiosk and make sure it looks clean and appealing. To get business to pick up again, we announce a mini special to the people who are “just looking”: $3 off the next tat, $2 off the following tat and $1 off the third tat.

To close the kiosk at the end of the day we will need to run an X tape from the cash register. Most malls require a Z tape once a week but an X tape will give us our daily cash total. We always keep $100 cash in the drawer as a start for the next day. All money over $100 is counted and given to the kiosk manager. We check to see that the actual cash total agrees with the total number on the X tape for that day. We lock and cover the cash register, take all the items sitting on the counter of the kiosk and lock them up in one of the drawers.

All equipment is cleaned, shut off and placed in a locked drawer. Here is where the Power Palette is an advantage. We simply run alcohol or cleaner through the airbrush gun and turn the dial to the dead spot and we are done. When Andria first started out with our kiosk at the mall we had a seven gun system and the workers always had to start to clean up one hour before closing time in order to be out on time. That is one hour of lost revenue. But that’s another story…..

Turn off the lights and we’re done for the day.