Tattoo Designs and Layouts

You want to give your clients the tattoo of their dreams.

The kind of tattoo they are proud to show off, telling everyone where they got inked.

To do that, you need to offer a ton of awesome tattoo designs / tattoo layouts and implement these important tips for starting your own tattoo business:

A. Finding the Perfect Tattoo Designs and Layouts

B. Important Tips for Starting Your Own Tattoo Business

1) Tattoo Johnny

Home of the world's greatest collection of tattoo designs / tattoo layouts, Tattoo Johnny offers downloadable tattoo design / tattoo layouts with matching stencils that you can print with a click. You ink it and your clients leave happy.

2) Chopper Tattoo

Specializing in award-winning tattoo designs / tattoo layouts, Chopper Tattoo allows you to browse thousands of tattoo designs / tattoo layouts over the Internet. They guarantee to have more designs to choose from than any tattoo studio and their database is forever growing! Give your clients the power of unparalleled choice!

3) TattooMeNow

Mark Hanes has created the definitive one-stop shop where you can search literally thousands of tattoo designs / tattoo layouts and actual tattoo photos. With just one membership, you can give your clients access to:

• The Design Gallery - featuring over 3,500 tattoo designs / tattoo layouts in 40 categories.
• The Members Gallery - thousands of tattoo photos with ratings & member reviews.
• The Studio Directory – build confident by showing that your shop is listed.
• The Video Vault - Tattoo related videos in multiple categories to educate your customers.
• The Media Library - full of ebooks and resources to take you from tattoo designs / tattoo layout to taking care of your tattoo for life! Tons of valuable information for you and your clients!

B. Important Tips for Starting Your Own Tattoo Business
Selecting the perfect tattoo from the over 20,000 tattoo designs / tattoo layouts above and printing their choice of tattoo design / tattoo layout is just your client’s first step in getting the tattoo of their dreams.

Now they need to decide where to get inked. To help them decide, put on a pair of your customer’s shoes, and offer them the best possible Experience, Portfolio and Attitude so they’ll say, “I want to get inked by YOU!”

Experience

Everyone wants to choose an artist with the “right experience”? How do you show you have the “right experience”? In most cases, potential clients are not worried about years of experience. What really gives them confidence is that you have experience in the style of tattoo designs / tattoo layouts they’ve selected. Just as one artist is good at images, another may be better at script. Each style of tattoo design / tattoo layout will have an artist that is best at it. So make sure in your next step – the Portfolio – you show a wide variety of work.

Portfolio

You must have a portfolio for finished tattoos, in addition to some of your own tattoo designs / tattoo layouts. Smart, educated clients - the kind you want as customers - will ask to see your portfolio. And not having a portfolio of tattoo designs / tattoo layouts and photos of finished tattoos is a bad sign.

To really help your clients out, show that you pay close attention to details: show the quality of your black outlining – showing how yours are clean and crisp. Show off your color or shading – detailing how you provide solid and vibrant colors, blended smoothly. Also, don’t forget the big picture. Can you make out the image easily? Does it match the tattoo design / tattoo layout? Does the tattoo sit on the body well? The more meticulous you are in creating your portfolio, the more comfortable your clients will feel.

Attitude

To some clients, simply feeling comfortable is their highest priority. Help them get to know you. Show them that you understand that their choice of tattoo design / tattoo layout is very personal, so they shouldn’t rush it. Listen and show that you are open to hearing their questions and that you want to answer those questions to their complete satisfaction. Show your enthusiasm over the client’s tattoo layout / tattoo design choice they’ve made.

Also, to show your complete professionalism, check with your client to make sure they’re not making a spur of the moment decision they might regret later. You are on their side and will never pressure them into something they might not be looking for.

Finally, trust your instincts. No tattoo artist is perfect. You just want to help your client find the tattoo artist that is PERFECT for them!