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The Salon Collective

Hairdresser · Avonhead, 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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Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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The Salon Collective

Hairdresser · Avonhead, Christchurch

Where you stand#154of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health6.9/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

The Salon Collective is a hair salon in Avonhead, Christchurch, that describes itself as a team of holistic hair artists specialising in blondes. They state colour services are offered as packages, and clients can expect staff focused on trained techniques for foils and blonde work. Reviews commonly note friendly, professional service and consistent results with repeat clients.

The Salon Collective is a hair salon located in Avonhead, Christchurch, that describes itself as a collective of holistic hair artists specialising in blonde work. The salon presents itself as focused on "all things blonde" and emphasizes care for hair condition as part of the beauty outcome.

Colour work is a central offering. The salon states all colour services are provided in packages, with the team presenting their training and continued skill development as the foundation for their approach. Mentioned services in reviews include full head foils and foil work tailored to blonde tones.

Customers commonly describe friendly and professional interactions with staff. Review themes point to consistent results, with clients returning for repeat appointments and naming specific stylists who understand individual preferences. Several reviews single out positive experiences with foil work, colour tone control and hair condition after treatment.

Locally, The Salon Collective is positioned as a specialist option for clients seeking blonde colour services in Avonhead and broader Christchurch. Its packaged colour approach, stated focus on ongoing training, and reviewer themes of professional, friendly service and reliable outcomes are practical markers that help potential clients understand what to expect.

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Your Google listing

The Salon Collective shows solid listing health with a 6.8/10 score, indicating above-average completeness. Key strengths include a claimed listing, open-for-business status, a website link and a phone number, which support easy customer contact. The main opportunity is refining the listing description to rise above the bottom quartile, while photos remain competitive and should continue to improve.

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.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
  • 2
    Photos on the listingYou have more photos on your listing than half the businesses here, so a customer arriving has enough to look at that they stay on it.
  • 3
    Category fitYour categories cover this market better than the middle of the field, so you appear in most of the searches your competitors appear in.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
6.6Good
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4.4 ★★★★★ (25)
Hairdresser · Avonhead3
Open 5 days · late Mon and Tue ✓
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Salon Collective shows a high health score for Google reviews (7.2/10), indicating solid performance and room to grow with continued focus on customer experiences. Key findings include steady review momentum and strong owner engagement, while total reviews sit above the bottom quartile. The business should maintain service quality to push ratings higher.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    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.
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    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
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    Review countYour review count sits under the middle of this market, so you are readable to a customer without yet being convincing.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.8Room to grow
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Dani T.★★★★★ · 8 months ago

I had a full head of foils done by Eva and I couldn’t be happier with the results! She was professional and friendly, love my new hair! Thanks

Response from the owner

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this review- it’s greatly appreciated x

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Angela P.★★★★★ · a year ago

I went to see Jade last week. I had the best experience, I absolutely love my hair. I highly recommend.

Response from the owner

Thank you gorgeous for taking the time to leave this lovely review - we are so pleased that you had the best experience x

Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #209 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

The Salon Collective shows very strong visibility on Google Maps, with an overall health score of 8.8 out of 10. This indicates solid local presence and good chances for attracting nearby clients. The borough-specific ranking is among the top 10%, which supports continued focus on maintaining elite visibility in Avonhead and surrounding areas.

Strengths

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbNo business in your suburb turns up in local Maps searches more often than you do - for a customer searching nearby, you are among the first names on the screen.

Top opportunity

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than nearly everyone here, so a customer searching well outside your own patch still sees you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
8.8Strong
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1Top three for "unisex hairdresser" in 1 suburb, seen in 5
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On Hair Salon5.0 ★ (39) · Hairdresser
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Hush Hairstyling4.9 ★ (73) · Hairdresser
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The Salon Collective✓4.4 ★ (25) · Hairdresser
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #61 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The health of The Salon Collective's citations and social presence is strong, with a high overall score. The strongest findings are outstanding Instagram and Facebook profiles that reinforce brand credibility and engage clients, and a well-ranked Fresha listing that supports new client discovery.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Instagram ProfileWe found your Instagram Profile page, and the trail between you and it is unambiguous - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.

Top three opportunities

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    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
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    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
  • 3
    Fresha ProfileWe could not find an active Fresha Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
6.5Good
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Instagramthehaircollective_nzThe Salon Collective | Instagram✓
Facebook104911111324325The Salon Collective | Facebook✓
Family Company Studiothe-hair-collectiveThe Salon Collective | Family Company Studio
Freshathe-hair-collective-staveley-street-christchurch-58nkZ4Found through search, not linked from anything you own3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #173 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    A page address you choseYour page address is one Facebook generated rather than one you chose - your business name with a long number bolted on, or just the number.
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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.9Room to grow
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

The Salon Collective's on-page health is 6.0 out of 10, indicating above-average technical factors but room for improvement. The strongest outcomes include fast loading, a visible H1 tag, compact page size, and HTTPS-secure resources. A notable gap is the homepage lacking a meta description, which limits click-through potential, alongside opportunities to optimise the title tag and add a favicon.

Strengths

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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.
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    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.
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    H1 heading tagYour home page opens with a proper heading, so a visitor landing cold and a search engine reading the page are both told what this business is in the first line.

Top three opportunities

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    Meta descriptionYour pages carry no summary line of your own, so the two lines under your name in search results are whatever Google decides best fits the search.
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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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How people find you on Google

The Salon Collective shows a very healthy website traffic profile with solid organic visibility and a strong health score of 8.6 out of 10. Key findings include opportunities to grow paid traffic and strengthen paid keyword coverage, while organic traffic is already performing in the 25th to 50th percentile and organic value sits in the 50-75% range.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than half the businesses here, so competitors are picking up searches you could be answering.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
7.9Good
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thesaloncollective.co.nzThe Salon Collective: Blonde

THE SALON COLLECTIVE. WE ARE HOLISTIC HAIR ARTISTS. SPECIALISING IN All THINGS BLONDE. Read more

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3About 525 visits a month from search, across 204 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your hours against demand

The Salon Collective's opening hours show mixed alignment with Christchurch demand. The salon is open during many strong midweek lunchtime peaks (notably Tuesday and Wednesday noon-2pm), but it is closed during several busy Saturday midday hours and Tuesday 11am, creating missed commercial opportunities. There are no low-demand open hours, so wasted time in schedule is not evident.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
2.8Room to grow
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Hours 1
Monday12pm-8pm
Tuesday12pm-8pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Avonhead
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #360 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#154of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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