Twenty barbershops were read in the set someone searching in Savage is shown, and not one of them had answered any of its recent reviews. That is not a shortage of material to work with. The three most-reviewed of those listings hold 816, 550 and 490 Google reviews, and the median across the twenty is 107. The two windows are different — the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while 816 and 107 are whole-listing totals — but on the recent ones, nothing came back from any of the twenty we read. Coffee shops were the only other trade around Savage where that was true of every business we read.
The hair salons we read carry a median of 85 reviews, and the three largest files among them hold 1,659, 961 and 640. One business is named here: Parlour 9 Salon & Spa answered 10 of its last 10 and carries 324 reviews. That list only ever names the businesses answering the most, so a single name is not a statement about the rest of the twenty — we simply did not name them, and nothing here says what they did.
Nail salons we read carry a median of 172.5 reviews, above the 107 for barbershops and the 85 for hair salons, with their three largest files at 328, 295 and 273. T- Luxe Nails & Spa answered 10 of its last 10 and carries 273 reviews. Cozy Nails in Savage answered 10 of its last 10 and carries 252. Aura Nails Savage answered 5 of its last 10 and carries 328.
A typical business among the 40 we measured in what a searcher in Savage is shown answered 82% of its recent reviews. The median ratings for these three trades are 4.9 for barbershops, 4.8 for hair salons and 4.6 for nail salons — one figure each for a set of twenty, which does not tell you which listing is which. No list on this page is sorted by star rating.
What to do about it
If you cut hair around Savage, the useful pairing is the 107 median review file across the twenty barbershops we read sitting next to a trade where none of those twenty had answered any recent review. The writing already exists; what is missing underneath it is a reply. Open your own listing, start at the newest review and work down, because the counts on this page are taken from each business's most recent reviews rather than from the whole file.
Answer the pleasant ones as well as the awkward ones, and write each reply differently — the same sentence pasted under twenty reviews is one sentence, not twenty replies. Use the name of the service if the review mentions it, and sign it the way you would say it out loud. Then treat it as recurring rather than finished: catching up once and keeping up are two different jobs, and the recent window keeps moving whether or not anyone is writing back.
Barbershops
We read 20 barbershops businesses here and not one had answered a single one of its ten most recent reviews. The first owner here who replies is the only one doing it.
Hair salons
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parlour 9 Salon & Spa | 10 of 10 | 324 | 4.9 |
Nail salons
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T- Luxe Nails & Spa | 10 of 10 | 273 | 4.7 |
| 2 | Cozy Nails in Savage | 10 of 10 | 252 | 4.5 |
| 3 | Aura Nails Savage | 5 of 10 | 328 | 4.8 |