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6 Things You Need To Know Before Opening A Tattoo Studio
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what is up YouTube it's Brandon from
tattooing101 and today I'm going to
break down the steps to open up a tattoo
studio I've owned two tattoo studios in
my career so far and also worked it a
ton before that so I have a lot of
knowledge on how to set up and do those
things and I know a lot of you along
with your journey that's everyone's end
goal so these are my steps to open up a
tattoo studio and if you're not there
yet how to start getting ready for that
process so starting out let's say you're
not 100 tattooing yet you're still
working at a regular job and getting
into tattooing first thing you could do
is definitely get into a tattoo studio
learn how things run I wouldn't
recommend just jumping straight into
tattooing opening up your shop because
there's a lot of things that you need to
pick up through throughout the industry
and build a clientele before opening up
if you need help with like a mentor or
something like that I recommend you get
into our artist accelerator program that
way you could go through all the steps
learn how to tattoo appropriately and
have mentors like me that you could get
on live calls and talk to me personally
to be able to get you to the next step
of your journey so I'll leave a link
down below if you are interested in
something like that but let's get into
the next one so after you're getting
into a tattoo studio you're learning how
to appropriately run a business pick up
on everything that they do you know how
everyone's doing their taxes how they
run the business how they're doing
something simple as release forms all
those things are super important along
with sterilization to open up your
tattoo studio next is going to be fun so
you need to be able to save up depending
on the Tattoo Studio that you want to
open up I'd say if you want to do a
custom Studio you're going to need five
to ten thousand dollars if you want to
open up a tattoo studio to where you
have multiple people working for you it
could be thirty to fifty thousand
dollars to get everything set up how you
wanted to do all the construction all
these things add up and it could be way
more than that as well so depending on
your setup depending on what you want to
do you have to think about rent water
trash you know The Biohazard pickup
electricity internet all those things
are important and and schedule out on a
piece of paper and plan everything and
know exactly what you need to make each
week to be able to pay all the bills and
be able to pay for rent to keep the
doors open the last thing you want to do
is open up a tattoo studio figure out in
six months you're not able to do it and
then have to try to go back to work
because after telling someone that
you're going to open up a tattoo studio
you're going to burn a lot of bridges
which is another point do not tell
anyone you're going to open up a tattoo
studio if you're starting on an
apprenticeship and they ask you what are
your goals never say that you're going
your goal is to open up a studio because
they're going to think in their head
that you're going to be competition
eventually they're not going to give you
a shot just because of that reason so
don't necessarily lie to them lying's
the worst thing you could do but just
say you know your goal is to learn how
to tattoo and you know you just want to
learn to be the best you possibly can
and learn everything along with the
business that'll be my advice for that
next you have all your funds ready
that's going to be finding the location
and talking to your health department
understanding all of the steps you need
to take in order to get into there and
build everything up to code so Tennessee
has a pretty in-depth Health Department
they have a list of steps that you need
to do and you know the walls need to be
a specific way painted can't be straight
wood everything needs to be clean
collected it has to be sterilization
bloodborne pathogens pickups you have to
have a specific amount of cartridges
specific amount of paper towels in each
Booth running water are hooked up to
City disposal and a ton of other stuff
that you need to look into because every
Health Department is different so
looking into those things will help out
biohazard disposal was a big deal and
also in Tennessee we have to have
curtains put up in each station to be
able to give privacy if your customer
does want that that's one thing that's
different from any other state that I've
worked in that you need to have so all
of these things if they come out and
everything's set up correctly and you
don't have one of those things they will
not let you open the worst thing you
want to do is have a ton of people set
up and you let them know your opening
day and they come out and they say well
you didn't do this so you can't open
until it's done that can be super hectic
and then you have to spend a ton of
money trying to get it done as quick as
possible which isn't going to help you
out in the long run so plan everything I
actually have a binder with all the
health codes everything I need to do and
everything's set up so anytime I want to
open up a tattoo studio I know exactly
what I need to do and it's all planned
out another thing I had to do when I
found my location is draw up the
schematics of how everything was going
to be set up where the bathroom was
going to be where the stations were
where the sinks are everything in detail
I had to sketch out and send to the
health department so they could check
everything know the dimensions know that
there's a sink in every single station
and approve it before I even started
construction and I did it all myself I
built all the walls put up the drywall
did all the drywall sanding all the
things painted the ceiling which was the
worst part of the whole thing I did have
a couple friends help me you know my
really good friends helped me paint the
ceiling put up the walls I had my one
buddy that's a plumber come out and help
me out with that which helped a ton
obviously I don't do plumbing for a
living so I would have messed something
up so having people help you out is
going to be a great thing as well so
build up a connection with people and
you know they're going to be there just
like you're there for them so that's one
thing to help me out throughout my
career as well having people to be there
to help me out
so you got the location you did all the
building now it's time to get everything
ready for your opening day so you need
to advertise hit the books make sure
that everyone knows that you're opening
and the date that you're opening what I
like to do is do on opening day I'll
have little giveaways so you draw a tag
you buy a tag for a dollar or five
dollars whatever and you draw three at
the end you get a free tattoo one's a
hundred dollar tattoo one's a 200 tattoo
one's a 500 tattoo and you know usually
if a ton of people come out it's worth
it you end up getting your money back
through the tags that are sold sometimes
you won't it just depends on how much
people you know you have to follow you
so marketing is going to be a huge deal
for you and get business cards as soon
as you have the location set in and you
start working so you could have the
address all that stuff even your phone
number on there email so that people can
start reaching out and you can start
getting the clientele based set up
before you even start opening that'll
help you hit the ground running whenever
you first start opening up next is going
to be before opening the Health
Department's going to come out and check
your stations they're going to go
through everything that you have and
make sure everything's up to date all of
your dates on your inks all that stuff
and they come out every three months and
check all of those things so it's
something you have to be very Mindful
and since you are the owner if something
happens to where something's wrong you
are going to be liable I think it's 300
per offense which I've never got
anything I've always gotten 100 which is
awesome on all of my health department
ratings what which is really great I'm
super thankful that me and my team have
such a great understanding of all the
health department codes and all that
stuff so I don't have to deal with any
of that or stress about that as well so
having a good team working with you at
Tattoo Studio will help balance out all
of the things so it's not just put 100
on your shoulders you know you could
have someone answering phones or if you
have an apprentice be able to do those
things and you'll just focus on you know
running the business doing taxes all of
that stuff which gets on to the next
Point doing your taxes make sure you
don't lie on your taxes that's something
that I see a ton destroy people's lives
you know if you are having too many
write-offs or something like that could
really affect getting loans in the
future so don't lie about your taxes
just suck it up pay it and I promise you
it'll benefit you in the future yes it
hurts having to pay in taxes every year
everyone does it that's just a part of
life in America I'm not sure obviously
what other places in the world are doing
with taxes I don't know I've been never
been out of America yet but but that's
my advice for that so if you are open to
opening up a tattoo studio this is the
advice I have and that I've gone through
in my career to understand to be able to
help you guys out a little bit better I
hope this was able to help you guys out
and you have a wonderful day
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