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Elite Haircuts

Hairdresser · Spreydon, 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
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Elite Haircuts

Hairdresser · Spreydon, Christchurch

Where you stand#306of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health3.9/10across the eight areas
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Elite hair cuts is a small hair salon in Spreydon, Christchurch, offering cuts for women and men including fades, flat tops, mullets, bob styles, razor cuts and long or curly hair. The owner applies customers' own colour for $25 (wash, condition and dry). Reviews note a friendly, relaxed atmosphere and knowledgeable service.

Elite hair cuts is a neighbourhood hair salon located in Spreydon, Christchurch, serving women and men. The salon lists a wide range of haircut styles including fades, flat tops, mullets, bobs and elevated bobs, razor cuts for women, and services for long and curly hair. Colour application using customers' own product is available for $25 and includes rinse, condition and drying.

Services focus on practical clipping and styling choices alongside colour application. The owner and stylist offers razor techniques for women's cuts and works with different hair types. The salon explicitly mentions styles for both short and long hair and a selection of textural and shaped cuts.

Customer reviews emphasise a friendly, relaxed and stress-free experience. Clients describe the owner as knowledgeable about hair types and hair health, calm and able to put people at ease. Reviews also mention conversational, personal service, affordable rates and the convenience of being able to attend without an appointment.

Locally, Elite hair cuts presents as a straightforward, neighbourhood salon where customers can expect accommodating, hands-on styling and practical colour application using their own products. The combination of walk-in convenience, an emphasis on different cut types and a reassuring, chatty customer experience are recurring themes in customer feedback.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Google Business Listing for Elite hair cuts shows an above-average health score of 5.8 out of 10. The listing is claimed, open-for-business status is accurate, a website link and phone number are present, and the title is visible. The most important findings are solid listing control and contact visibility, with room to improve branding via a logo and to refine the description for local relevance.

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

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    LogoYour listing has no logo, so in a list of local results yours is the one with a blank space where every competitor has a mark.
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    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.9Room to grow
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4.6 ★★★★★ (93)
Hairdresser · Spreydon
Open 5 days ✓
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From the business

Elite haircuts is for women and men. I take pride in my haircuts. I do fades, flat tops, mullets etc. I also do razor cuts especially for women's haircuts. Bob's and elevated bobs. Long haircuts, curly haircuts. I also colour. Bring your own colour, I will apply it rince,condition rinse and dry off $25.

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Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Need to generate executive summaries for Google Business Reviews based on Elite hair cuts; health score is 4.0 out of 10 with top opportunities to improve focusing on response rate, star rating, rating confidence and total reviews.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateYou have replied to a small share of your reviews, so most customers reading your page still see feedback about you with no voice from you anywhere on it.
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    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit ahead of half the field here, so a customer has enough to go on and no reason to hesitate.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.0Room to grow
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Elite Haircuts
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
4.6★★★★★93 reviews
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Natasha M.★★★★★ · 9 months ago

A+++++ Louise always cuts such a great haircut. She is super knowledgeable and will help you with your hair health immensely. She knows hair types so well and can work with any sort, curly, straight and help those wavy people get a little m...

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Polly H.★ · Edited 6 years ago

Normally, I find Louise a diligent, thorough hairdresser. However, recently she seems distracted by ongoing drama in her personal life. Despite being very clear about what I wanted and what was important to me with my hair, for some reason...

Response from the owner

Polly I shaved up the back of your head like normal, you never told me that you only wanted the first inch shaved till I was going up to the normal line. Then anything I did after that was all wron...

Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Elite hair cuts in Spreydon, Christchurch shows a high overall health score of 7.8 out of 10 and strong local visibility. The top finding is solid performance for key local keywords, especially hair salon and unisex hairdresser in Spreydon, ranking in the top 2. A secondary opportunity is to push the borough score toward the top 10% by improving the Google listing and local signals.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
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1Top three for "hair salon" in 2 suburbs, seen in 4
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Halo Hair Studio5.0 ★ (39) · Hairdresser
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Elite Haircuts24.6 ★ (93) · Hairdresser
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Hair With J95.0 ★ (135) · Hairdresser
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Active Hair Cuts5.0 ★ (4) · Hairdresser
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #111 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The health of Elite hair cuts shows moderate presence across key platforms, with a 4.5 out of 10 health score. The strongest asset is a highly credible Facebook profile and solid Fresha listings, while opportunities lie in expanding on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn (personal and company pages), and a NoSecretSalon listing to boost local visibility and trust.

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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    Yellow ProfileWe can see your Yellow Profile listing (https://yellow.co.nz/y/elite-hair-cuts-579450938) found via: Google search results.
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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/elite-hair-cuts-barrington-street-christchurch-eXnPNj) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
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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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    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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 6 of them.
3.4Room to grow
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Yellowelite-hair-cuts-579450938Elite Haircuts | Yellow✓
FacebookelitehaircutsElite Haircuts | Facebook✓
Family Company Studioelite-hair-cutsElite Haircuts | Family Company Studio
White Pageselite-hair-cuts-2Elite Haircuts | White Pages
Freshaelite-hair-cuts-barrington-street-christchurch-eXnPNjElite Haircuts | Fresha✓
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #328 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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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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    A street addressA street address sits in your page details, so someone deciding between you and a business two suburbs over can see which of you is closer.

Top three opportunities

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    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than most in this market, which means a post reaches people who already know you rather than anyone still deciding.
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    An email addressA customer who would rather put a request in writing at ten at night has only Messenger to work with, because the page carries no email address.
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    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.8Room to grow
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Elite Haircuts offers affordable quality haircuts & styles and owner Louise has 40+ yrs experience.3
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★ 9 reviews · recommended
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☎ +64 22 035 7426✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #261 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
  • 3
    Domain UniquenessYour web address belongs to a platform rather than to you - a social page or a site builder's own domain.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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How people find you on Google

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.
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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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Your hours against demand

Elite hair cuts shows mixed alignment with local demand. The salon's weekday lunchtime coverage (notably Tuesday 11am-2pm and Wednesday 12pm) matches strong customer search times, while Saturday midday demand (10am-2pm) is consistently missed because the business is closed. No open hours fall in low-demand windows, so wasted time is minimal. Adjusting Saturday hours could capture unmet weekend demand.

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.
3.5Room to grow
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Elite Haircuts
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Spreydon
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#306of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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