From noting to a living, mi niche and its evolution.

byTatouagecaly

166 followers

8 years ago

Continuing with what is already working.

Hi, I'm Justin a professional tattoo artist in Quebec city downtown. I've been a tattoo artist for roughly 20 years. I'll tell you here how a welfare check led to a lucrative local tattoing niche expanding to an international online store by affiliation thanks to Wealthy Affiliate. The website I've been living off for years was made with wix but still does the job. I'm looking to migrate it to wordpress soon. I prefered getting my existing website working properly before fooling around with wordpress.

The link is tattoocalypso.com as of october it's beta since i'm adding the affiliate links sections and they don't deal with bilangual menues so I have to do everything by hand page per page... wix! Having learned lots about keyword research here and titling pages and article, now I need to build more solid articles having finally understood what blogging was about. One of the las elements my website needed with affiliate links and adsense. Heres my story form noting to a living.

I kinda grew up in a tattoo studio. I left home at 17 years old with 70$ for British Columbia to come back a few years later. When I came back my mom had invested in our first tattoo kit hoping to get my sister interested in the thing. I rapidely took a hang of it and started tattooing À9we had a yellow pages add and no one that knew really how to tattoo so I risked myself. We started in our basement with a 500$ credit card. We slowly started to do more and more tattoos and that only with yellow pages visibility witch was ok at the time. After a few years we would move to a store on one of the main streets. I would earn a fair amount of money with the busy tattoo artist status and the 100$ an hour wage.

I started to study and go off affecting my clients. My brother having started during my absense had been taking all the new and old clients leaving me with just a few of my old clients having fled to montreal and study. I came back to work a bit starting over to leave again for qQuebec city for university in arts. Once again I was leaving my clients behind having to travel to work. I finally met someone at school and had a lovely girl. That made me stay in Quebec city for good. I had to find other places to work and build new clients. The gold rush was over!

I had found a job in a tattoo studio that ended up closing 9 months later. That was the reason for me leaving the security of the home studio. All the tattoo artist job are taken and kept. They have good salaries, start a 11:00 am draw most of the time etc good work. Tattoo artist places are hard to find. I managed to go through 2 or 3 studios having problems with authority and not working in a family ambiance. Then psychosis walk in and cost me the las willing job I was able to get. A good one working regularly. I was the weirdo (doing ok for years now ) in the tattoo seen impossible to get work, they didn't understand what went wrong and me neither. All that I had left was to leave town, start on my own (cause only 15% of clients follow after you leave a studio) or go work minimum wage somewhere after 15 years of work in my domain. There was no way I'dd spend all my time doing the same thing I don't like to live so I kept mi envy for tattooinG I turned back to social media facebook.com/tattoocalypso , my facebook page, profile, yellow page 100$/month add and there we go! Oh, forgot the welfare check! So 600$ a month budget a few clients here and there and lots of will to live. I went on like that living off average 2-300$ pocket money a 600$ welfare check at the end of the month.

I then started to pay adds on facebook and google. When I discovered that you could give a dayly budget as low as 1$ it encouraged me. I turned around and thought about the fact that I never rally had enough money to buy myself anything worth more than 20-40$ forget the new winter coat and boots. I then thought about those 4 biers a day I would drink for 10$ (money I would save from going to the sisters to eat). I then parted that 10$ into two 2,50$ a day campaign on both google and facebook. Exactly the formula you present here, the niche concept fed by social media and SEO.

I now have average 880 visitors a month having added to my adds bujet and having been through lots of SEO techniques and suscriptions and blogging. I now want to monetise my site.

I've been living nicely since then working at home in my 6 1/12 downtown Quebec city working on all my projects, tattooing just enough having all my free time to work on the web. Love the concept and I'm looking forward in unlocking new niches and market oppertunities.