Approaching a tattooist regarding shared space at a Medieval Market!

Hi guys!

In my earlier thread I asked how to deal with a certain booth manager at the Copenhagen Medieval Market (www.kmm.dk).

After great advice from many of you I have decided to try and approach another vendor at the fair... a tattooist who specializes in medieval, nordic myth designs(www.skinandbone.dk).

So I was wondering if any of you ever tried working alongside a tattooist before?

I'm guessing it'd be better to aim for the teens and adults here rather than offering facepainting for the kiddies. Maybe some nice extreme eye makeup (watch Pashurs class on FABA!) for the women/teen girls and some nice bold coloured tattoo designs for the guys?
Or maybe I can aim for both adults AND children? I will after all be the only facepainter there (there will be another booth who's got some young girls painting reeaaaally bad roleplaying designs for the children and I don't count them as proper competition ).

Since the tattooist probably won't get that much real work done (I mean how many people get tattoed on a fair in the blistering heat on a warm day at the end of may? Allthough I did see a picture from last years fair showing a guy getting tattooed while lying on a bearskin on the ground ) and rather focus on marketing maybe he'd be interested to have a facepainter/bodypainter paint the ones who doesn't want "permanent" art.

What are your thoughts on this? And do you have suggestions on how to approach this guy?


Thanks!

Helene

I would send him a simple message to start with, a bit of a blurb about who you are, and ask if he's interested in slitting a booth cost with you. Cheaper for him, cheaper for you.

Worry about WHO you will market to afterwards, find out if he's interested in it first.

I would say something along these lines:

Dear So n so

My name is ____ and I noticed you're work at ___ last year. I am a face/body painter and was wondering if you'd be interested in splitting a booth with me this year? As we both are into body art of different mediums it could be a great way to offer a greater variety of services to people while reducing the cost of being at the festival.

If this is something you might be interested in I'd love to talk to you more about what it might look like and see if we could come to a mutually beneficial agreement!

Please feel free to contact me at ___

Sincerely,
Blah blah

Might want to add links to your work and things like that and just see what comes back.

Just what I would do

Good luck!
Trina

Nice Cattsy!! I love the way you approach... I will try it my self, thanks for the help!