One studio in the set someone searching around Chanhassen is shown carries 2260 Google reviews. The next two most-reviewed carry 542 and 477. The median across the 20 tattoo studios we read is 193.5, so the largest file in this group and the middle of it are a long way apart.
Ocean Blue Tattoo & Art Studio answered 10 of its last 10 reviews, on a listing of 380. Minneapolis Tattoo Shop answered 9 of its last 10, on a listing of 542. Jackalope Tattoo answered 3 of its last 10, on a listing of 477. Those are the three studios answering the most of their recent reviews out of the 20 we read, which means the third figure on that short list is 3 of 10. Two different windows are in play: the reply counts come from each business's most recent reviews, while 380, 542 and 477 are whole-listing totals.
Across the 53 businesses we measured in what someone searching around Chanhassen is shown, a typical one answered 74% of its recent reviews. That figure covers every trade together rather than tattoo studios on their own, and 460 businesses were read across all trades here. The medians differ sharply by trade: restaurants at 439 reviews, bars at 310, cafes at 267, coffee shops at 173.5, bakeries at 117 and massage at 35, against 193.5 for tattoo studios. In one trade, day spas, we read 20 businesses and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews.
The median rating across the 20 studios is 4.8. A median is a single figure for a whole trade; it does not tell you which listing is which, or what sits underneath it. Nothing on this page is ordered by stars, and the reply counts above are what the ordering rests on instead.
What to do about it
The reply counts here are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, not from the whole listing, and that distinction matters for a file holding 2260. The job is the recent run, not all 2260. Work down from the newest and stop when the recent stretch is covered, rather than treating the whole file as a backlog to clear.
The three studios answering the most of their recent reviews sit at 10 of 10, 9 of 10 and 3 of 10, so there is no settled standard in this group to copy. Write each reply separately and in your own words; one that could be pasted under any review of any studio adds a line and nothing more. Answer the positive reviews as well as the difficult ones, since those take the least effort to finish. And keeping up with the newest few is a different habit from catching up once, which is the habit these counts actually measure.
Tattoo studios
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ocean Blue Tattoo & Art Studio | 10 of 10 | 380 | 4.8 |
| 2 | Minneapolis Tattoo Shop | 9 of 10 | 542 | 4.8 |
| 3 | Jackalope Tattoo | 3 of 10 | 477 | 4.9 |