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Hair Now

Hair salon · Mairehau, 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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Hair Now

Hair salon · Mairehau, Christchurch

Where you stand#364of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health2.7/10across the eight areas

Going well

03Map positions9.5

Where we can help

02Reviews3.604Listings and social2.705Facebook page2.608Opening hours2.501Google listing2.307Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Hair Now is a hair salon in Mairehau, Christchurch offering haircuts, colour and styling. Customers mention friendly, knowledgeable stylists and a relaxed, inviting atmosphere, with several reviews referencing consistent cuts and good prices. The salon is noted for experience with curly hair and personalised service from long-standing stylists such as Angela.

Hair Now is a hair salon located in Mairehau, Christchurch. It offers haircuts, colour and styling and serves local customers seeking regular and specialised hair services.

The salon provides services around cutting and colouring, with staff experienced in styling and managing different hair types. Reviews highlight skill with curly hair and a focus on personalised cuts and colour work from named stylists.

Clients describe the salon atmosphere as relaxed, inviting and easy going, with friendly staff. Feedback frequently mentions consistent results, good prices and professionals who take time to understand individual hair needs.

Hair Now is distinguished locally by its steady customer praise for reliable cuts, colour work and knowledge of specific hair types, and by repeat clients who refer to the same trusted stylists. The combination of approachable service, practical expertise and neighbourhood location defines its local presence.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Hair Now shows a low overall health score on its Google Business Listing, with room for improvement. The most important findings are the missing website link and description, and the absence of a logo, while phone and address details are already present. Photos are growing but still in the lower quartile.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hair Now
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4.8 ★★★★★ (23)
Hair salon · Mairehau
Open 5 days · late Mon and Wed ✓
DirectionsCall No website 1
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet2
Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Hair Now shows a below-average overall health score, indicating limited Google review performance compared with peers. The top findings include a steady but room-for-improvement response rate to reviews and solid momentum in star rating and total reviews, suggesting stable customer sentiment and growing visibility.

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 confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
  • 3
    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.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Hair Now
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
4.8★★★★★23 reviews 3
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Corey H.★★★ · 6 years ago

Expensive place but good product

Response from the owner1

Sorry but I don't recall having you visit my salon so wonder how you came up with this rating?

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Alf G.★★★ · 7 years ago

Response from the owner

Sorry Alf but I don't recall doing your hair so I'm not sure what this review is based on?

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

Where you show up on the map

Hair Now shows a very high overall health score on Google Maps search, indicating strong visibility across searches. Top findings include leading rankings for the core keyword hair salon in mairehau and solid positioning for related unisex hairdresser terms in nearby suburbs, reflecting good local relevance and steady growth.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Maps visibility across the city groupThere is no wider Maps reach available to a business at your address - you appear across more of the surrounding suburbs than anyone in this market.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
9.5Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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unisex hairdresser
✓Top three for "unisex hairdresser" in 3 suburbs, seen in 16
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Transform Me4.9 ★ (32) · Hair salon
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April and Aster Hair Studio5.0 ★ (17) · Hair salon
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Hair Now14.8 ★ (23) · Hair salon
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The Cutting Company4.5 ★ (70) · Hair salon
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #24 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Hair Now shows a low overall health score for Citations & Social Presence, at 2.2 out of 10. The most important findings are a strong Facebook presence and solid Fresha/Yellow/Neighbourly listings, but notable gaps remain. Building an active Instagram and TikTok profile, plus improving Yellow and NoSecretSalon entries, would help visibility and local 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.
  • ✓
    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/hair-now-east-ellington-drive-christchurch-VENwkX) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds 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.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Freshahair-now-east-ellington-drive-christchurch-VENwkXHair Now | Fresha✓
FacebookHair-Now-100048685107170Hair Now | Facebook✓
Neighbourlybeauty/canterbury-region/christchurch/mairehauHair Now | Neighbourly
Wedding Guidehair-designFound through search, not linked from anything you own
Yellow/christchurch/hair-nowHair Now | Yellow3
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #364 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
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    A cover photoYour page opens with a cover photo rather than a blank banner, so the first impression a visitor gets is your own work.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
  • 3
    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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people1
277 followers 2
Angela is a friendly and creative stylist with over 25 yrs experience, she will listen and give advice in a relaxed way for an enjoyable salon visit.
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★ 5 reviews · recommended 3
🌐 maps.google.com
☎ +64 3-386 3474✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
  • 2
    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.
-Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

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

Where we can help

Nothing to sort here.
0 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing all of them.
0.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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No ads from you on any search
Hair NowNot in these results
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

Hair Now's opening hours show some alignment with local demand but overall timing is weak. Most high-demand windows are closed, with strong alignment mainly on Tuesday late morning to early afternoon and Friday 11am. Significant missed opportunities occur at late-morning and midday on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Practical adjustments to add key weekend and midweek midday coverage would likely improve commercial returns.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    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.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Hair Now
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday12:30pm-7pm
Tuesday9:30am-5pm
Wednesday12:30pm-7pm
Thursday9:30am-5pm
Friday9:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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The next step

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These are your top 17 opportunities, from the 44 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions1 opportunity

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#364of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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