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On the Honest Tattooer podcast, Jon, Matt, Ermes, and Pony read listener letters about common tattoo shop problems: shops favoring artists with big social followings, two artists dating and bringing relationship tension into the workplace, and a shop owner whose talented friend drives away managers and staff through harsh communication. They discuss balancing shop promotion across artists, encouraging simple, consistent content for introverted tattooers, and separating business from friendship when addressing behavior that harms shop culture. They also talk about posting frequency and algorithms, show examples of a fresh-to-healed tattoo with online criticism differences between Instagram and Facebook, debate pricing and logistics for a convention collab tattoo, and end with thoughts on daily practice for drawing and creativity. They mention attending the Third Coast Tattoo Convention in Chicago.

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