One tattoo listing in the set someone searching around Savage is shown holds 2260 Google reviews. The next two hold 333 and 239. The median across the 20 tattoo studios we read is 47, so those three figures describe three listings and not the trade behind them.
Of those 20, the two answering the most of their recent reviews are Stay Tru Tattoo and The Canvas Tattoo Studio. Stay Tru Tattoo answered 9 of its last 10, and its listing carries 239 reviews. The Canvas Tattoo Studio answered 1 of its last 10, and its listing carries 333. The two windows are not the same: the reply counts are drawn from each business's most recent reviews, while the review totals are the whole listing. We have not named the rest of the twenty we read, and their reply counts are not on this page.
A typical business among the 40 we measured in what a searcher in Savage is shown answered 82% of its recent reviews. Two other trades in the same catchment came back with nothing at all: of the 20 coffee shops we read, not one had answered any of its recent reviews, and of the 20 barbershops we read, not one had either. In total we read 420 businesses across all trades around Savage, and 20 of them are the tattoo studios on this page.
The median rating across those 20 tattoo studios is 4.9. A median is one figure for a whole set; it does not tell a reader which listing is which, and nothing here is ordered by stars in any case. The depth figures sit further apart than the ratings do: a median of 47 reviews per tattoo studio, 34 across the 20 massage businesses we read, and 934.5 across the 20 restaurants.
What to do about it
The reply counts here are drawn from each studio's most recent reviews, so the work starts at the newest end of the list rather than the bottom of a long file. Go down the recent ones in order, and answer the positive ones as well as the difficult ones — the reply is the part of a review the studio writes.
The median rating across the 20 we read is 4.9, and a median is one figure for a whole set: it does not tell a reader which listing is which, and it carries nothing about what is written underneath. That second part is the part a studio decides. Write each reply in your own words, about that customer and that piece of work, instead of one line repeated down the page. And treat it as a recurring job rather than a single clear-out — catching up once and keeping up are different jobs, and only the second one shows in a count taken from the most recent reviews.
Tattoo studios
| # | Business | Answered | Reviews | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay Tru Tattoo | 9 of 10 | 239 | 4.8 |
| 2 | The Canvas Tattoo Studio | 1 of 10 | 333 | 4.8 |