Proposals from DEX Builds. None of this is switched on.
The work holds.
The way in doesn’t.
One hundred and seventy-eight people have found their way into this room and given it a 4.9. They did it with a telephone number and a Facebook page, because that is the whole of what exists. Three things would widen the door. Every one of them is described below exactly as it would be built, and none of it runs at Blessed today.
In the order this shop needs them: booking that lands on the shop’s own calendar, with the deposit taken at the same moment · a text that answers the call nobody could get to · and an automatic ask for the review after the visit, checked before it goes anywhere public.
Why booking, first
Both hands are busy.
The telephone is not.
A sitting here is not an errand. One client calls hers “this very long process”. Another came in for one tattoo and left having had two. For every hour of that, the artist has a machine in one hand and a stretched piece of skin under the other, and the phone is somewhere across the room.
The Google listing carries a number and no booking link. Doors are at noon. Anybody who decides at eleven at night that this is finally the year has exactly one option, which is to remember in the morning.
“He took his time explaining every detail, making sure everything was exactly how we envisioned it and that it turned out perfect.”
Proposed · online booking
A consultation booked
from the page itself.
The client picks a day and a time here and lands directly on the shop’s calendar. A confirmation goes out the moment it is booked, and a reminder before the appointment, which is the part that actually cuts the no-shows. Where the trade warrants a deposit, and this one does, it is taken at the same moment.
Demonstration · drawn, not connected to anything
What kind of appointment
Which day
What time
Sample times, kept inside the hours on the Google listing. Which hours are bookable, and with which artist, is the shop’s to set.
Sent the moment it is booked
Blessed Tattoo Studio, you are booked in. A consultation, Thursday at 2:00 PM. 3129 E Thompson Rd, Indianapolis. Reply to this message if you need to move it.
Sent the day before
Tomorrow: your consultation at Blessed, Thursday at 2:00 PM. Doors from noon, open until 7:00 PM. Reply here if anything has changed.
Nothing is sent from this page. The address, the number and the hours inside those two messages are the shop’s real ones.
Blessed takes no bookings online today, and this calendar is a drawing of one. What a reminder is worth here is not something we are going to put a number on: nobody has ever counted a no-show at this shop, and inventing the count would be the least honest thing on the page.
Proposed · missed-call text-back
The call that rings out
answers itself.
When a call to (317) 832-6183 goes unanswered, an automatic text reaches that number within seconds: sorry we missed you, what can we help with? The conversation carries on by text. A text can be answered with one glove off, between passes. A ringing phone cannot.
A sample exchange · written by us, not taken from the shop
Rings out. Everyone on the floor is working. Nothing in the shop records that this happened.
Sorry we missed you. This is Blessed Tattoo Studio on E Thompson Rd. Both hands are probably busy. What can we help with?
Hi, wanted to ask about a cover-up on my forearm.
Send a photo of it and we’ll tell you what is possible. We are here until 8 tonight, and from noon tomorrow.
A Friday evening, when the shop is open until eight. The exchange is invented to show the shape of the thing; the number, the road and the hours inside it are real. Blessed runs no such automation, and how many calls ring out here in a week is a figure nobody holds, least of all us.
Proposed · the review engine
Four point nine, from a
hundred and seventy-eight.
This is the one thing the shop already wins on, and the one thing nothing is compounding. Of the four reviews Google prints in full, one is three months old and three are nine. They arrive when somebody happens to remember. Nothing asks.
After a visit, a request goes out automatically, by text or by email, asking for a Google review. Before it goes anywhere public the sentiment is checked: somebody who says the visit went badly is routed to the owner privately, and is never pushed toward the listing.
That second half is the reason this is safe to run in a room like this one, where the thing bought is worn for good and a bad sitting is not a bad coffee.
It went the way the last 178 went
The request goes out while the piece is still freshest, and the Google listing is one tap from it. This is how a hundred and seventy-eighth review becomes a two hundredth.
It did not
The message goes to whoever runs the floor, privately, and no public prompt is sent at all. The shop hears it first, which is the only order that helps anybody.
No review has been requested, written, edited or removed by DEX Builds. Every review quoted anywhere on this site is on the public Google listing in the words its author used. What is proposed here asks for reviews. It does not produce them.
What Blessed decides
Five answers,
none of them ours.
We would build the page, the calendar, the automatic text and the review request. We will not fill these in. Each one is a decision about how the floor runs, and the floor is not ours.
- Which hours are true
- The Google listing says Monday to Saturday from noon. The decal on the front door says Tuesday to Saturday, and no Monday. A calendar cannot hold both, so this is the first thing to settle, before a booking page, not after one.
- The deposit
- Whether one is taken at all, what it is, and whether it comes off the sitting. That figure stands blank everywhere on this page for the same reason the price of a tattoo stands blank on the work page: it is not ours to set.
- Whose books are open
- Six styles show up in the eight photographs and no photograph says who made which piece. A calendar needs names on it, and it needs to know which of those names is taking new work.
- What the phone says back
- The wording of the automatic text is the shop’s voice, not ours. What is shown above is a suggestion in a demonstration, not a message anybody has sent.
- Who reads the private ones
- An unhappy message has to reach a person. One review credits Travis with the shop; whether it goes to him, or to whoever has the floor that day, is a decision somebody makes once and then it is made.
Said plainly: Blessed Tattoo Studio does not take bookings online, does not text back a missed call, and does not ask for reviews automatically. Nothing on this page is running. These are three proposals DEX Builds drew up after reading the shop’s public Google listing, written the way they would actually be built. No booking, no message and no review shown here came from the shop, and no figure is put on any of it, because that part is a conversation and not a page.