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Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware

Barber shop · Edgeware, 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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Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware

Barber shop · Edgeware, Christchurch

Where you stand#221of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health5.6/10across the eight areas

Going well

07Google search and traffic8.101Google listing7.802Reviews7.403Map positions6.0

Where we can help

04Listings and social2.905Facebook page1.508Opening hours1.506Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware is a Christchurch barber studio located at 205D Hills Road. A team of experienced barbers provides haircuts and traditional barber services, taking appointments and offering walk-ins when space allows. The shop is known locally for skilled cutting, a relaxed vibe and friendly, conversational service in the Edgeware neighbourhood.

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware is a barber studio based at 205D Hills Road in Edgeware, Christchurch. The studio operates with a team of barbers and presents itself as a local grooming destination for men and boys in the area.

The studio offers barbering services provided by a group of barbers with multiple years of experience. They take appointments and also accept walk-ins when space is available, and their website messaging highlights hair cuts and a simple customer-focused approach.

Customers commonly describe skilled cuts, attentive barbers and a friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Reviews mention precise fades, barbers who are good with teenagers, and a shop environment that encourages conversation and makes clients feel at ease. Responses from the team also appear in replies to customer feedback.

What distinguishes Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware locally is a mix of experienced staff, an approachable shop atmosphere and flexible booking that suits both scheduled appointments and spontaneous visits. Its Edgeware location on Hills Road positions it as a neighbourhood barber that aims to offer consistent, personable grooming services.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware shows a solid overall health with a 7.6/10. Listings are well populated with essential details and strong claimed status, phone, and opening information. Key achievements include a live website link, a visible listing title, claimed status, open-for-business status, and a contact number. The primary opportunities focus on enriching the description and maintaining strong photo count.

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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    Description lengthYour description gives a reader less than half the listings here do, so someone reading yours and then a competitor's gets less to go on from you.
  • 2
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou carry more photos than most of this market, which gives a customer a real look at the work before they ring.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.8Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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5.0 ★★★★★ (101)
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business

We are a Christchurch based barber studio with a team of barbers and multiple years of experience . We also take appointments but can take walk ins if we have space available we are located at 205D hills road :)

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware shows strong overall health with a 7.4/10 score, indicating solid performance in Google reviews. The business excels in customer satisfaction, with top-10% standing for both Google Business Rating Confidence and Google Star Rating. The most notable finding is high reviewer approval, paired with a solid response rate that outperforms a quarter of peers.

Strengths

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    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you at the head of this market: well rated, with enough reviews behind it that a customer takes the number seriously.
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    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 two opportunities

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    Response rateYou reply to some of your reviews but not most, so a customer scrolling your page finds long stretches where nobody answered.
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    Review countYou hold more reviews than most of this market - depth buyers read as proof.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
7.4Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Mandy C.★★★★★ · 3 months ago

Zay does an excellent job, my teenage son always leaves very happy!

Response from the owner1

Thanks Mandy, awesome to hear. Zay is awesome, appreciate the feedback

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James N.★★★★★ · 4 months ago

Amazing shop. Awesome vibe, friendly environment that welcomes those from all walks of life. Joe is my barber and is easily one of the best. Skilled, knowledgeable and always down for a good chat as well. 5 stars isn't enough

Response from the owner

Thanks James, we too think Joe is pretty awesome!!

Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware shows above average health in Google Maps search with a 6.3/10. Running well on local visibility, it sits in the top quartile for its suburb. Key opportunities focus on raising the aggregate Maps score and pushing further into the top 10% locally by refining the Google Business Listing and presence. Outcomes depend on consistent listing updates and accuracy.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
  • 2
    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.
6.0Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Top three for "barber shop" in 1 suburb, seen in 3
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Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware25.0 ★ (101) · Barber shop
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Jimcuts Barbershop4.9 ★ (48) · Barber shop
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LadsLounge And Beauty5.0 ★ (1) · Barber shop
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HAIR LAB4.6 ★ (73) · Barber shop
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #198 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware shows a strong online footprint across Facebook, Instagram and Fresha, with high trust signals. Health is solid at 8.3/10. Key strengths include an outstanding Facebook and Instagram presence and a well-listed Fresha profile, which help attract local clients. Opportunities exist mainly in local directories and the Neighbourly ecosystem to broaden neighbourhood reach.

Strengths

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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.
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    Cylex ListingWe can see your Cylex Listing listing (https://cylex.co.nz/elvte+barber+studio-18188812) 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
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
2.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Instagramelvte_barberstudioElvte Barber Studio Edgeware | Instagram✓
Freshalp/en/bt/barbershops/in/nz-christchurch/edgewareElvte Barber Studio Edgeware | Fresha
Cylexelvte+barber+studio-18188812Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware | Cylex✓
Family Company Studioelvte-barber-studioElvte Barber Studio Edgeware | Family Company Studio
Infobelelvte_barber_studioElvte Barber Studio Edgeware | Infobel
FacebookNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #352 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
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Your website

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware shows an above-average on-page SEO health score of 6.0 out of 10. The business has a valid favicon, fast load times and a concise page size, plus a relevant meta description and an SEO-friendly URL. However, key gaps include missing meta description, non-ideal title tag length, lack of an H1 tag, and mixed content issues that could affect trust and crawlability.

Strengths

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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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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    Page titleThe headline on your home page is either a single word or long enough that a search result cuts it off part way through.
  • 3
    On-page scoreThe basics on your home page are half in place: it opens and it reads, but enough checks still fail that a customer on a phone away from wifi notices the wait before they notice the business.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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How people find you on Google

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware shows a solid overall website traffic health score of 7.7 out of 10, indicating good performance relative to peers. The most meaningful findings are limited paid activity with room to grow and mid-range organic value that can be improved with content and links. Paid traffic is currently underutilised while organic visibility remains steady.

Strengths

Your first one is close. Sort an opportunity below and it moves up here.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than half the businesses here, so the people arriving are browsing rather than buying.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
8.1Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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elvteedgeware.setmore.comElvte Barber Studio [ Edgeware ] | Christchurch [ Book now ]
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ELVTE BARBER STUDIO. Open Menu Close Menu. BOOK APPOINTMENT. CUT . Read more

www.fresha.comElvte Barber Studio - 205 D Hills Road, Edgeware, ...
3About 1,179 visits a month from search, across 147 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your hours against demand

Elvte Barber Studio Edgeware has no published opening hours, so there is no measurable alignment with local customer demand. That creates clear missed opportunities during the popular search windows for barbers in Christchurch and prevents identification of any hours that match peak demand. Practical next steps are to publish accurate opening hours and test aligning availability with common peak windows (morning, lunch, after work).

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
Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #423 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews2 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#221of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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