I also wonder if you don’t have time to deal with enquires surely you wouldn’t have time for an actual booking. Which tells me you probably don’t enjoy replying to enquires and just see it as a burden, which it can be! But if you are just feeling under pressure and like you can’t do everything, maybe you just need to have a little reorganise. Perhaps plan your days better. Set aside 30 mins in the morning and afternoon to deal with replies. (I usually do 30 mins in the morning while I have my coffee and then 30 mins in the evening if needed).

It can seem overwhelming sometimes but I would really recommend trying to manage it yourself as it’s your safety at the end of the day. If someone else books an asshole in, you will feel angry towards them for letting them through the net.

If you are busy with overall life maybe you could get an assistant for other areas such as housework.. but that’s going completely off topic... you get my gist

What I was trying to say is how can you feel as though you don’t have enough time each day to answer enquires but do have time for bookings, if enquires take 30 minutes here and there each day.

If you’re really spending 10h a week on admin, are booked a week in advance, seem busy enough, do you really need to be spending so much time on ads, website, seo etc? Maybe you’re doing too much and in turn you are receiving too many enquires that you cant cope with or even need.

I’m just looking from the outside in, in a business management sense. It seems as though you don’t have the balance quite right.

I’m very busy. I hoe 6 days a week, have an office job 3 days a week, assist my OH on the running of his business, have a life to live outside of all of that, etc etc. We are all very busy and sometimes we just need to organise effectively. I would be using the incall days, in between clients, to get admin done. Seems a waste of time to be sat in a room doing nothing productive.
But I do understand where you’re coming from. Sometimes it is all too much and seems like there is 100 things on the to do list that never ends. I’ve felt like this too and I’ve realised that I need to restructure how I do things.

I just wouldn’t want you gettin an assistant to deal with your enquires or book clients in for you to then up in a sticky situation due to someone else not vetting your client correctly. It’s your safety. You can’t put a price on that!
Maybe see  if you can re-jiggle a few things in order for you to have enough time for admin