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Review pace estimator
“How many can I get in a month” has no single answer: one or two is normal for a contractor, while thirty to forty is what doing it properly looks like in a nail salon. Only a per-trade estimate is worth anything.
How to use it
Pick your trade, then enter one number you already know — how many customers you serve in a week, say. You get a range for 30 and 90 days, plus how many people to ask each week.
Trades differ enormously. A restaurant serves more people in a day than a law firm does in a month, but a much smaller share of them write anything. Dentists and contractors see fewer customers at higher value, and those customers are far more willing to review. So "is ten a month good?" has no answer outside a trade.
Why a range instead of a number
Because the conversion depends on a few things: when you ask, whether you hand over a one-tap link or code, and how rushed the customer is. With the same footfall, asking properly and mentioning it in passing differ by two or three times.
The bottom of the range is roughly "there is a code but nobody asks"; the top is roughly "we ask every time and hand over the code on the spot". Which end you are at today takes two numbers in the Missed reviews calculator.
The important part: do not speed
Collecting too fast is more dangerous than collecting too slowly. A business that normally gets two or three a month and suddenly posts twenty in a week does not look normal to the system. The usual outcome is that the batch gets filtered out — wasted work, and possibly trouble for the profile.
So the weekly figure has an upper bound as well as a lower one, and the number this tool gives you accounts for that. What filtering looks like is in Google review not showing up? Here is what is going on.
With the pace known, spread the target across months with the Review goal calculator, and get the wording from the Review request script generator. Starting from zero, the ninety-day plan is From 0 to 50 Google reviews in 90 days; once the count is up, ranking follows in How to climb in Google Maps, step by step.
Turning the pace into reviews
Once you know how many people to ask each week, what remains is getting the ones you asked to finish. Most of them give up at the point where they have to type.
In practice, ten happy customers, and often not one of them writes a review — not because they do not want to, but because it is a hassle, and typing it out is worse. Review Helper cuts that step to thirty seconds: the customer scans your code, ticks a few things they actually experienced, and the page turns it into a sentence in their own words. Copy, paste, posted. We do not ghost-write and we do not post for anyone — what they write, and whether to post it, stays their call. Three free reviews for every Google listing, nothing to pay up front, no card needed. No monthly fee: you pay per use.