Three tattoo studios in the set someone searching around Eden Prairie is shown carry 3541, 2260 and 1204 Google reviews. The median across the 20 studios we read is 257.5. A median is the middle of the set, so half of those 20 sit below that figure and half above it, and the three largest files sit well clear of it.
One studio comes with a reply count attached. Minneapolis Tattoo Shop has 542 reviews and answered 9 of its last 10. We only list the businesses answering the most of their recent reviews, so that number describes that shop and nothing else — it says nothing either way about the rest of the twenty we read.
We measured 46 of the businesses someone searching in Eden Prairie is shown; a typical one answered 81% of its recent reviews. That figure covers every trade together — restaurants, dentists, groomers, studios — rather than tattoo studios on their own, so read it as the backdrop for this catchment and not as a line drawn under this group. It is also not spread evenly. In three of the trades we read around Eden Prairie — coffee shops, barbershops and dermatology — not one business had answered any of its recent reviews. Depth varies just as widely: the median tattoo studio we read has 257.5 reviews, the median massage business 35, the median pet groomer 65, the median restaurant 638.
The median rating across the 20 studios we read is 4.8. A trade median is one figure for the whole set; it does not tell you which listing is which, and nothing on this page is ordered by stars. The thing that does vary visibly from one listing to the next is whether the recent reviews were answered at all.
What to do about it
A file of several hundred reviews sounds like an impossible backlog, and it is not one. The counts here are drawn from each business's most recent reviews rather than the whole history — the 9 of 10 beside Minneapolis Tattoo Shop sits next to a total of 542. The work is that recent stretch, not the archive. Start at the newest and work backwards, then keep at it, because the window keeps moving; catching up once and stopping puts a listing back where it started.
Write the replies yourself rather than from a saved paragraph. The same two lines under every review add nothing specific to any of them, and a reply that picks up what the person actually said does. Answer the positive reviews as well as the difficult ones — an unanswered review reads as unanswered whether it was five stars or one.
Tattoo studios
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minneapolis Tattoo Shop | 9 of 10 | 542 | 4.8 |