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Fusion Hair

Hairdresser · Sydenham, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 570 Christchurch beauty businesses.

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Checked13 October 2026
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Fusion Hair

Hairdresser · Sydenham, Christchurch

Where you stand#302of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health4.7/10across the eight areas

Going well

07Google search and traffic8.0

Where we can help

02Reviews5.808Opening hours4.201Google listing3.403Map positions2.304Listings and social2.305Facebook page0.806Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Fusion Hair is a chic, affordable boutique salon in Waltham, Christchurch, serving the whole family. The salon offers cuts, colouring and styling with a focus on personalised service. Clients note friendly, professional care from Maria and competitive pricing. Fusion Hair combines neighbourhood convenience with a relaxed, family-friendly approach to routine hairdressing and colour work.

Fusion Hair is a boutique hair salon located in Waltham, Christchurch, serving local clients and families. The salon presents itself as an affordable option for routine cuts and colour, with a compact, neighbourhood setting that welcomes different age groups.

Services centre on hair cutting, colouring and styling, with clients often seeing the same stylist for repeat visits. The business listing and reviews indicate Maria as a key stylist who handles requests for tweaks to regular styles, works on colour shades and provides professional advice during appointments.

Clients report consistent experiences of friendly, patient service and practical, professional advice. Reviews highlight patience with older clients, attentive listening when customers request changes, and a steady relationship over years of returning visits. Several reviewers mention competitive pricing and satisfaction with outcomes such as healthier-feeling hair and well-suited cuts.

Locally, Fusion Hair is positioned as a convenient family-friendly salon in Waltham that trades on repeat clientele and personalised care. The combination of a neighbourhood location, an emphasis on continuity with a regular stylist, approachable pricing and a focus on straightforward hair services defines what customers can expect when booking appointments.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Fusion Hair shows a solid listing health with a 4.3/10 average, indicating room for improvement though some basics are in place. The strongest areas are ownership verification, a live website link, a visible phone number, and open-for-business status, which support easy customer contact. Key gaps include the missing logo and a basic description that sits in the bottom half of peers.

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
    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.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have fewer photos than nearly every business here, so a customer comparing you against them builds a picture of their work and guesses at yours.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
3.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.9 ★★★★★ (80)
Hairdresser · Sydenham
Open 4 days · late Thu and Sat ✓
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From the business

Fusion Hair in Waltham is a chic affordable boutique salon catering to the whole family.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Fusion Hair shows a health score of 5.5 out of 10, indicating a mid-range Google review performance. Overall, customers are generally satisfied, with room to improve engagement and volume. The business benefits from a solid rating and a strong review base but should focus on increasing response rates and maintaining service quality to push higher rankings.

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.
  • 2
    Review confidenceRating and volume together put you ahead of most of this market, which means a customer sees a well-rated business with enough reviews behind it to be believed.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating is higher than most of this market, and it is the first thing a customer reads about you.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Fusion Hair
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
4.9★★★★★80 reviews
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Deirdre J.★★★★★ · Edited 2 years ago

Dropped in as I was passing and Maria managed to fit me in for a cut. Very nice result, looking forward to going again.

Response from the owner1

Always a pleasure to see you. Thanks

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Judy H.★★★★★ · 5 years ago

Great haircut and service. A++ highly recommend.

Response from the owner

Thanks Judy it was wonderful to see you

Google reviewsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #238 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Fusion Hair faces a low overall Google Maps health score of 2.0/10, indicating limited visibility in Maps searches. The business shows potential in its top performing keywords for Sydenham and Waltham, including 'hair salon in sydenham' and 'hair salon in waltham' reaching positions 5-8. Focused work on local map ranking could move the needle in core suburbs.

Strengths

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

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.
2.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 3 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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BEAUTYFIX Hair'n Skincare5.0 ★ (98) · Hairdresser
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Bronzed Goddess Sydenham4.7 ★ (36) · Hairdresser
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Fusion Hair2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #441 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Fusion Hair's health score sits at 3.5 out of 10, indicating below average presence across social platforms and local directories. The strongest point is a very high-trust Facebook profile, while opportunities lie in expanding on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn, and improving visibility on Neighbourly and NoSecretSalon. Addressing these could steady local reach and trust.

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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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/fusion-hair-opawa-road-christchurch-6QA196) 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.
2.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Freshafusion-hair-opawa-road-christchurch-6QA196Fusion Hair | Fresha✓
Instagramfusion_hairFusion Hair | Instagram✓
Yellow/christchurch/bpp/fusion-hair-579468670Fusion Hair | Yellow3
FacebookNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #441 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.
0.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #526 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Fusion Hair shows an average health for on-page SEO with a 5.5/10 score. The two most notable findings are a relevant meta description already in place and an SEO-friendly URL, while opportunities exist to improve the meta description clarity, title tag length, favicon presence, and avoid frames to boost performance.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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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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    Secure content linksThe links on your site point at secure versions of your pages, so nobody is sent through an unnecessary redirect on the way in.

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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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
  • 3
    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.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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✓Page file size
✓Secure content links
1Meta description
2On-page score
3Page title
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How people find you on Google

Fusion Hair shows a solid overall health for website traffic with room for measured growth. The most notable findings are opportunities to start paid traffic experiments and to improve organic visibility through consistent content and technical SEO improvements.

Strengths

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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.
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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.
  • 3
    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.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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3About 270 visits a month from search, across 49 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #116 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Fusion Hair's opening hours show clear alignment with several high-demand slots but miss a number of popular midweek daytime windows. The salon is open during strong demand on Wednesday 3pm, Thursday 4-5pm and Saturday 1-2pm, yet is closed across several Tuesday and Wednesday late-morning to early-afternoon peaks. No low-demand open hours were flagged, suggesting efficient scheduling but untapped daytime demand.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover some of the busy stretches but fewer than half the businesses here, which means someone ringing round on a Saturday morning reaches your competitors and your voicemail.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
4.2Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Fusion Hair
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am-4pm
Thursday10am-7pm
Friday10am-4pm
Saturday10am-7pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Tuesday · Sydenham
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Opening hoursChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #333 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

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#302of 570 Christchurch beauty businesses
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