Customer Communication

The Shelf Life of an Inquiry

Booking inquiries have a rarely-discussed property: **they expire.**

Not because clients are fickle — because intent is energy, and it decays. The second a client hits send is peak intent: she wants to look good, she's free, she just saw your post. Every minute after, that energy dissipates: she second-guesses the spend, her boyfriend tells her to sleep, she scrolls past another studio's sale.

Reply speed isn't about politeness. It's about **completing the conversion within the shelf life.**

40 inquiries, 11 missed: a 27.5% leakage rate. At an average ticket of NT$1,300 (Black Friday pricing): **NT$14,300 in potential revenue lost in one night.** The more successful your promo, the bigger this number — exploding messages and finite reply speed are natural enemies.

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A Nail Artist's Black Friday: Forty DMs in One Night, Eleven Clients Missed

During a Black Friday promotion, a nail artist's DMs exploded to forty within two hours. She replied in the gaps between finishing her last client. The post-mortem: forty inquiries, fourteen bookings, eleven simply expired. This is leakage theory in the field.