Deposit - Successful side-hustling for tattooers: Using your industry skills to diversify your income by kaya heitlant ($150 at Door)

Time: Friday 10/25 @ 5:30

Length: 2 Hours

Full Price: $175 ($25 deposit - $150 at the door)

Take financial pressure off of your tattoo career!
Bring in income from the skills you already have!
Renew your love of tattooing!

When Covid hit, I knew I had to diversify my income streams to take financial pressure of my tattooing, and in less than two years I had a six-figure business running that allowed me the financial freedom and creative energy to fall in love with tattooing again. All I did was use the skills I had already learned from the tattoo industry and figured out how to market those skills to other businesses.

Using transferable skills gained from your experience as as tattooer, this seminar will help you to start simple, successful side hustles that take financial pressure off of your tattooing and help you to reinvest energy into your art and clients. Learn to develop a professional graphic design portfolio for products and logo design, how to write a design pitch and distribute it to the right people, how to approach businesses with your ideas, make industry connections and more.

I am going to walk you through the development of my two successful side-businesses, and give you real, applicable strategies to easily branch into other viable industries such as arts communication and education, jewelry design and manufacture, product development and packaging design, small business branding and logo design, consultant work, promotional products, customer service and social media management and graphic design.

Since starting my business Indigenous Nouveau in 2020, I have worked with dozens of other small businesses to build branding packages and diversify their incomes, developed products for big companies such as Walmart, Home Depot and Canadian tire, designed products exclusively for Winners and Homesense, shoes for Manitobah Mukluks, and I am just a tattooer who saw niches in the market for my particular skill sets and art.

Artist info:

IG and Website:
@kaija.heitland.tattoos
@indigenousnouveau
@bythethorne
www.indigenousnouveau.com

Bio:

Kaija heitland has been tattooing since 2007, working in British Columbia, Canada and Berlin, Germany and currently lives on Vancouver island with her husband Markus Lenhard. Aside from tattooing, she runs her Métis-arts based company Indigenous Nouveau, teaching traditional skills, creating beadwork and traditional regalia for museums and private clients, logo and product development for small businesses and works as a free-lance Indigenous contract consultant. With her jewelry company, By The Thorne, she works in silver and gold, gemstones, 3d printing, and casting.

With all three of her businesses, she has branched out to work in the movie and television industries as a consultant and artist, providing costume design and manufacture for Disney, Netflix and Amazon prime and couture pieces for red carpet events. She has worked with companies such as Walmart, Manitobah Mukluks, and Homesense in developing products and as a contract consultant to change the way that large corporations engage and work with the rights of Indigenous artists and their work.

She also works as a freelance small business consultant, where she provides one-on-one coaching for small businesses in almost every aspect of business building from branding and contract writing, to product development, launch, graphic design and website design. Kaija will be launching a 12 part course on Holistic Small Business Planning by the end of 2024, and is currently part of filming a series for APTN called Coastal Carvings, highlighting the work of Indigenous artists and teachers throughout the Canadian Pacific Northwest.