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 [...]

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 [...]

I was watching a program on TV with my husband, aka the channel flipper. I have to be quick while watching TV with him or I miss out. I can’t tell you the name of the program we were watching or what businessman was being interviewed but I did find part of [...]

Anyone in the service industry gets paid for providing a service.  Sometimes it  is hard for us to charge our customers for extra services that we provide.
When I was much younger I had my hair done for the first time on my own.  The cost was $20 for the hair cut but by the time [...]

Have you been faced with a difficult situation and felt the odds were insurmountable and given up? I know I have. Here is a true story told to me by my son Ben who is the sales manager for TAT International.
” A few years ago I attended a neighborhood street festival [...]

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When we first introduced the J. D. Crowe designs, our sales staff discouraged you, our customers from purchasing them.  I must say I did not agree with their reasoning.  They felt the designs could only be applied successfully by experienced airbrush artists.
I ask you, how are you going to get better at anything if [...]

We have a few stencil designs (117, the grim reaper, 020 the kitten, L169 the Democrat donkey and L226 the Republican elephant) that require an extra step to make them look like the designs on the posters.
Here is how I spray these designs:  Lets take stencil   #117, the grim reaper, for example…  Oh so [...]

When I first started applying tats, I was always disappointed with the way yellow, orange and brown looked on the customer’s skin. In fact when someone asked for a tat and requested yellow, orange or brown, I would warn them that because of their skin color those colors would not show up very well.
I [...]

Unlike the salon industry, the tat industry is not under a lot of government regulation and licensing requirements.  To keep it that way we need to operate in a professional and sanitary way.  Here are a few suggestions you may want to implement if you have not already.
Always use a clean stencil when applying a [...]

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 [...]