Yes it does, but for most of us, the money is in the flash. As much as I dislike flash, most of my money comes from there. Let’s face it, tattooes are expensive, and the average person isn’t going to come in and get a $400.00 + tattoo, they want something more in their price range, which is $50.00-$150.00 and it honestly isn’t worth my time to…[Read more]

Wish we were high volume! I do a pretty decent business here, but not as good as I’d like. Amber and I were able to open NCI debt free, so we’re building up the overhead to open a second studio. This one we are going to place for high volume and money, we’re gonna open in Ft. Worth this time and set it in a good location. We’ve got a 4 year…[Read more]

About 3/4 of our business is walk ins. the rest are appointments. I usually have at least two appointments a week and Mike has at least one. Those are usually $400.00 or more and custom designs. Sometimes all I do are appointments. Mike picks up the walk ins when I’m that booked, but honestly most of our work is flash off the wall from…[Read more]

Well, the business came in like I hoped. It’s nearly 1 Am and we’re still slinging ink. Shop officially closed nearly an hour ago. It looks like I won’t even leave for another half hour or so. Good for me…but I gotta be here again at 11 AM and I’m leaving at 6 PM tomorrow for Galveston…a 7 hour drive. Ya’ll take care, i’ll ee you when I get back.

Yeah, and the day is looking better. We open shop at noon and I was here early so around 11 AM someone came in to get some work done. We were making money an hour before we opened. The Alarm may be too good. I do enjoy my sleep.

welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

yeah, hasn’t been bad until now. Had a REAL good week last week and my check was worth all the work. did a lot of custom stuff and finally got our pool table for the studio.

These week however has really been bad. Not only has business been down this week, but my truck blew two tires, I replaced the first one, then the second went flat at the…[Read more]

Well, I must say you’ve go one on me this time.

Butterfly_Kisses;48649 wrote:
ahh now i see our s.neill 😀
i thought you was high !! LOL

Why hello there Butterfly!:D

I’m gonna refer you to your Tattoo#20 thread. I’ve addressed your discussion there. I’ll restate it here. This is not the place to ask the questions you want to ask.

Butterfly_Kisses;48554 wrote:
hmm metallica ninja star , my partner wanted one of these but its a little common to be honest 😀
i seen them live many times because they are his favorite band too and every time i have been i have seen 100’s with this tattoo .
oh and the scary guy tattoo also.
unless your getting this done big its going to look a…[Read more]

I’m going to be polite with you. There are 2 reasons for that. First, you’ve posted 12 times since you joined the site, and one of those was an introduction. I went to your profile and tracked your posts and I see no one has responded to your introduction. Not sure when it was posted…yet, but someone, by your 12th post should have told you…[Read more]

Oh well, guess not then.

Well, you’re in Minnesota, so if you ever decide to come south into the great State of Texas, I can help you. I actually think we’ve got some members up in your neck of the woods. Are the Moose as big as they say up there?

Only every now and again, my friend. I’ve been in a pretty good mood lately. Let me have a bad week and I’ll get downright blunt, rude, crude, whatever you call it.

Got us a pool table for the shop and began decorating the studio for halloween. Gonna have a fun one with that. We’re thinking about having us a good old fashioned Haloween party.…[Read more]

Xaz;48526 wrote:
You are exposing these poor fools to bloodborn pathogens (disease) thru crosscontamination (spreading disease) and the likelihood of you & your guinea pigs shopping for internal organs due to the HepC Virus you gave them in a few years is staggering.

The fact your markings are poor is the last thing for you to think…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum Lainey, glad to have another Texan on here, I was feeling lost with all the brits on here. Makes me almost want to salute the Queen. 😀 I own and operate New Covenant Ink in Weatherford Texas, West of Ft. Worth. Ever get out this way, do drop in. Glad ta meetcha