Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Running a Business and Being an Artist

So this past weekend my mom, sister, and I went to get tattooed. For my mom and sister it was their 5th tattoo, but only the second for me. We almost ended up not doing it at all. The problem was how the tattoo shops were run. It was “first come first serve” for small tattoos and by appointment only for custom tattoos. This sounds fine unless the shop has no system in place to determine who got there first and the person at the front desk doesn’t know what the artists schedule is. The first place we went to on Saturday only had one artist, no front desk person, and a line of around 5 people. We waited a half hour before the artist was even able to give us the paperwork to fill out and to tell us how long our wait would probably be. We decided to come back the n View the rest of this article


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