Today we are going walk through using YouTube to market your business. YouTube is an incredibly valuable tool to inform and educate customers and to bring in new customers. It is the quickest way to effectively tell customers about your services. You could put up a video of you explaining how to care for their tat, a video talking about tat parties, or even videos of customers getting tats. Much like the idea of hosting customer photos on your website, this is a method of driving traffic to your website. We’re going to talk about putting customer videos on the web, as it will likely be the most viral type of video.

The last two weeks Google has rolled out oodles of updates to many of it’s products even including one of its biggest products, YouTube. The recent renovation, has definitely brought with it some serious functionality differences. As you can see, the look is slightly changed, although most of the design elements remained mostly recognizable. But [...]

I am so pleased to announce the completion of a project that has been in the works for quite some time. Not only am I happy to have finished it, but I am so very proud of the result. In the time since I have arrived here at TatStore, nearly a year ago, I have [...]

Most of our customers have a problem with flash.  They are extremely pleased with our banner and poster options, but they wonder how to display their custom work either homemade or those made here at TatStore. The most common solution is to actually tat some cardboard, poster board, wood, or other surface.  This is a [...]

So, I know that it’s true that we do a lot of reviews of firefox, and firefox related add-ons here at the TatStore Blog, but I personally just can’t help it.  If you have something you would like to do, firefox has a way to do it. Today, I’d like to take a look at [...]

I don’t know how many readers of this blog love photoshopping as much as I do, but for the purposes of this entry, I will pretend that there is one. I have a couple of awesome blogs bookmarked in my google reader that produce photoshop tutorials that just dazzle me week after week.  Those are [...]

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 [...]

Hi, as promised, here I explain how to create zippy web 2.0 buttons. This tutorial uses the open-source (free!) program, Inkscape, to create and edit shapes. Get your copy at Inkscape.org.

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 [...]

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 also [...]