Thursday, October 1, 2009

Setting Up Your Own Tattoo Business

By Frederick Michaels McKinnon

There comes a time for every budding tattoo artist when they will want to look to setting up their own tattoo business. It is important to have worked for a considerable time in an already established local shop in order to gather the necessary confidence, skills and knowledge to make it on your own.

Once you have made the decision to set up your own tattoo business, the first port of call is to find premises, and then equip those premises with the highest quality equipment that you can afford. There is of course a lot more to running a business than that, you will need make sure your marketing is good enough to keep on bringing business through the door, as well as controlling your costs and managing the books.

It is vital that you dont let one particular area of your business upkeep slide, which it is surprisingly easy to do. If you dont like bookkeeping for example, then it is easy to let them pile up and this will mean that you will be unaware of what sort of state your business is in financially.

As the owner of a business, there are only five numbers that you should be concerned with, and these are volume of leads, number of conversions into sales, number of transactions, average sale price, gross margin percentage. Your mindset should be that you can never get enough people through the door as potential customers, as the more potential customers you get, the more chances you will have to create paying customers.

You should look beyond just the operations that your business carries out and the services it provides and think about the health of the business as a whole on a long term basis. A very important investment to consider is you equipment, you should always buy the highest quality equipment that you can possibly afford as this will not only improve your ground level operations, but it will improve your businesses image as well as providing you with the best and most durable equipment available meaning you dont have to re-buy regularly, thus saving you an extra cost as well.

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