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Brian Miles Hairdresser

Hair salon · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers.

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Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Brian Miles Hairdresser

Hair salon · Rangiora North East, Christchurch

Where you stand#476of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health0.4/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.01PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Where we can help

02Reviews1.805Facebook page1.508Opening hours1.501Google listing1.103Map positions0.704Listings and social0.707Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Brian Miles Hairdresser is a unisex hair salon in Rangiora that offers cuts, colours and scalp analysis. The salon promotes a warm, welcoming atmosphere and a team that treats clients like family. Services include foils and colour work plus a K-SCAN digital scalp and hair analysis, with free consultations available to help match treatments to client needs.

Brian Miles Hairdresser is a unisex hair salon based in Rangiora. It describes a welcoming, family-like atmosphere and presents itself as a local place for routine cuts and colour work. The salon mentions free consultations and a focus on treating clients individually.

Services listed include foils and various colour work, from subtle highlights to bolder shades, and general cutting and styling. The salon also offers K-SCAN, a digital scalp and hair analysis tool the team uses to assess hair and scalp condition and recommend suitable treatments.

Customer comments emphasise friendly, familiar staff and consistently good haircuts. Reviews note long-term clients who return over many years, visitors passing through who were pleased with the result, and a straightforward approach to bookings with some people reporting no need for appointments. Price and value are mentioned positively in customer feedback.

Locally, Brian Miles Hairdresser presents itself as a neighbourhood salon combining colour services and technical analysis with a casual, family-style client experience. The combination of colour options, a digital scalp scan and a reputation for friendly staff are the practical features customers are likely to encounter when choosing this Rangiora salon.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Brian Miles Hairdresser shows a very low Google Business health score and needs urgent updates to listing elements. The listing already includes a title, phone number, full address and a main image, but lacks a website link, claimed status, a meaningful description, photos, and a logo. Addressing these gaps will improve visibility and trust with local customers.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.
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    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    WebsiteYour listing has no website link, so a customer who wants to check your prices or your work before ringing has nowhere to go from Google.
  • 3
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Hair salon · Rangiora North East
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business
No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Brian Miles Hairdresser shows a low overall health on Google reviews with a 1.9/10. The top finding is a brilliant star rating in the top 10%, indicating high customer satisfaction for a small business. However, there is no reviewer response yet, and the total number of reviews is still growing. These factors suggest effort is needed to improve engagement and volume.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
  • 2
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
1.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #409 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Maps search health for Brian Miles Hairdresser in Rangiora is very low overall, with a 0.6 out of 10. This means visibility in Google Maps searches is limited and customers may struggle to find the salon. The strongest signal is that the business appears in some broader maps queries, but there is a clear need to improve local presence and ranking positions.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches, but below most businesses in your suburb, so a customer looking from a nearby street is shown someone else first.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
0.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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unisex hairdresser
1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Hair Handlers Unisex Salon4.7 ★ (72) · Hair salon
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Smoke and Mirrors Hair Lounge4.9 ★ (206) · Hair salon
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Zest Hair Design4.9 ★ (52) · Hair salon
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Wild Hair Design5.0 ★ (10) · Hair salon
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #461 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Brian Miles Hairdresser shows a low health score for social presence at 1.9 out of 10, suggesting limited visibility across key platforms. The most important findings are strong Facebook activity and a well-maintained Fresha listing, which help local clients find services, but gaps exist on Instagram and TikTok that limit reach to younger audiences.

Strengths

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    White Pages ListingWe can see your White Pages Listing listing (https://whitepages.co.nz/brian-miles-hairdresser-tobacconist) found via: Google search results.
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    Yelp ListingWe can see your Yelp Listing listing (https://yelp.com/brian-miles-hairdresser-rangiora) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
0.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookHKMHaircutsBrian Miles Hairdresser | Facebook1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #465 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
1.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #425 for your Facebook page
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Your website

The On-Page SEO health for Brian Miles Hairdresser shows a below-average score, highlighting critical gaps in meta elements and page structure. Key findings include a missing meta description and title tag, no detectable on-page SEO score, and slow load times that exceed three seconds, which can deter visitors and hurt visibility.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
  • 2
    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
  • 3
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google Mapsgoogle.com › mapsBrian Miles Hairdresser - Rangiora North East, Christchurch
Your websiteNo website of your own1
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How people find you on Google

The Website Traffic health for Brian Miles Hairdresser shows an above-average score of 6.4 out of 10, indicating moderate performance with room for growth. Key takeaways: paid traffic is not yet measurable and needs a small, targeted campaign, while organic traffic already sits above the 25th percentile and should be continued and refined.

Strengths

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Where we can help

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0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #212 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Brian Miles Hairdresser has no published opening-hours data, so alignment between hours and local demand cannot be assessed. Without recorded hours, strong matches or gaps cannot be pinpointed. To improve the temporal fit, the salon should publish regular hours, monitor local search and booking patterns, and trial targeted extended hours (for example evenings or weekend slots) where commercial demand suggests value.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandWe could not measure your hours against local demand, which almost always means your listing shows no opening hours at all.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
1.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hours
No opening hours listed1
Popular times Thursday · Rangiora North East
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #423 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#476of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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