Are you ready for the last of the horror stories? I don’t know if there is a lesson here or if this story will enlighten you in any way, but for us at TAT International who lived it, it was truly a horror story. About two and a half years ago, Natasha called Kirk. She [...]

Stacy’s mom (who’s got it goin’ on) ordered a system for her daughter who was planning to open a kiosk in the mall. Stacy was a college student who needed a summer job and her mom thought this would be a good learning experience for her daughter as well as a money maker. Stacy got [...]

The following horror story was told to me by Nate. Nate repairs all the equipment at TAT International and works with customers who are having problems with their equipment. He wanted me to tell this story because the following is a very common mistake made by so many. One Monday morning Leroy Brown called and [...]

Let me begin by saying that the spirit of the next four blogs is to help everyone learn by someone else’s mistake. Everyone makes mistakes and mistakes are our best teachers. All names have been changed unless prior permission was given. The following story was told to me by Kirk. Jack and Diane had recently [...]

I’m sure you already know that Halloween is second only to Christmas for retail merchandise sales. When we lived in the city and had trick-or-treaters, I would always buy my candy well in advance of the big night, eat it all up and have to buy candy again, and again, and again… I know I [...]

I think there is an entire segment of teenage girls that go ga ga for anything that sparkles. Not to mention how much little girls are attracted to glitz. For this reason I think that offering the 3-D glitter tattoos can be valuable to your business. I have always liked the looks of the glitter [...]

A few years ago when we purchased the crystal tattoos, we also got several packages of loose crystals. I went a little crazy with the crystals and blinged my cell phone, pens and keys. The pens do make a nice gift. I gave one to my Niece for graduation; one to a friend who was [...]

How do you deal with the problem of no electricity or having to pay extra for electricity? There is a simple solution to this problem. We here at TAT International recommend the purchase of a deep cycle or marine battery, a power inverter (750 – 1,000 watt) and a battery charger. These items can be [...]

This set up is pretty much the same as I showed you last week. The following pictures are of a double booth set up for two airbrush artists. In this picture the artists are set up on opposite ends of the booth. However, with the Power Palette system both artists could operate off the middle [...]

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 for the [...]