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HOMX Collective

Barber shop · Woolston, 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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HOMX Collective

Barber shop · Woolston, Christchurch

Where you stand#457of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health0.8/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

HOMX Collective (Mobile Barber) is a Christchurch-based mobile barber service operating from Woolston. The team offers 24-hour appointments at locations convenient to customers, with services that extend beyond regular cuts. They provide callouts for events, wedding packages and specialised visits for elderly clients, delivering barbershop services where clients prefer to be served.

HOMX Collective (Mobile Barber) is a mobile barber service based in Woolston, Christchurch. The service operates across the Christchurch area and focuses on bringing barbering to customers rather than requiring visits to a fixed shop.

Services include 24-hour mobile appointments that can be arranged at a location convenient to the client. The team is available for event callouts, wedding packages tailored to special occasions, and dedicated visits for elderly clients who may need hair services at home.

Customers arrange on-site appointments and can expect the barber to work from the client's chosen space, whether at home, a venue or an event location. The mobile setup is designed to suit time-sensitive needs, such as late appointments or scheduled event styling, and to reduce travel for clients who prefer on-site service.

Locally, HOMX Collective is positioned as a flexible alternative to a traditional salon, focused on accessibility and convenience through mobile barbering, event callouts and specific packages for weddings and elderly care. The combination of 24-hour availability and on-site service is a practical point of difference for Christchurch clients seeking convenient barber services.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

HOMX Collective's Google Business Listing shows an overall health of below average, at 3.2 out of 10, indicating room for improvement. The listing already highlights that it is open-for-business, includes a website link, has a claimed status, a full address, and an existing listing title. Key opportunities focus on adding a phone number and a logo, while continuing to grow the photo library and refining the description.

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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    PhoneYour listing has no phone number, so the call button a customer expects to tap is not there and the ones in a hurry ring someone else.
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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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
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Barber shop · Woolston
Open 5 days · late Wed, Thu and Fri ✓
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From the business

HOMX Barber is a mobile barber service available 24hour anywhere that's convenient within your space.Also available for callouts for events,wedding packages and elderly services.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

HOMX Collective (Mobile Barber) presents a very low health score on Google Business reviews, with limited customer engagement and few visible reviews. The top opportunities focus on boosting ratings, building trust through responses, and increasing review volume by asking satisfied clients to share experiences.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
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    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
0.8Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where you show up on the map

HOMX Collective shows a low overall health score of 1.5/10 for Google Maps search, indicating limited visibility. Key findings: the business ranks well for several local barber keywords in specific areas (Hillsborough, Bromley, Woolston, Opawa, Huntsbury, Mount Pleasant) but overall aggregate and borough presence remains weak, suggesting local targeting needs improvement.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
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    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.
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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Mankind Barbers4.8 ★ (288) · Barber shop
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Lee's Barber Shop4.5 ★ (11) · Barber shop
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Bayside Barbers5.0 ★ (29) · Barber shop
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Ace of Blades Barbers5.0 ★ (148) · Barber shop
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HOMX Collective2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #427 for map positions
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Where customers find you

HOMX Collective shows a below-average health score of 3.7/10 for social presence and directories. The strongest finding is the outstanding Instagram profile, with a very high trust score from the Google Business Listing. There is credible Fresha visibility that can drive more customer flow with up-to-date details.

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.

Top three opportunities

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page through search rather than through anything you own.
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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.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
4.4Room to grow
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Instagramtailored_by_makxHOMX Collective | Instagram✓
Facebook61556890141835HOMX Collective | Facebook1
Freshalp/en/tt/menFound through search, not linked from anything you own
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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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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    What your page says about youFew intros in this market run as full as yours, and it sits close to the limit that length has stopped being a lever.
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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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    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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    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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    Recommendations on your pageA couple of recommendations have landed on the page, fewer than most here.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.5Room to grow
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Kia ora whanau my name is Tracy Tooman and I've been a professional barber for the greater part of 15 years. I specialise in kids of all ages, our disabled, special needs & autistic whanau. Now locat...✓
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★ 2 reviews · recommended 3
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #274 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Domain HealthYour website did not come back healthy when we tried it, and anyone clicking through from your Google listing is meeting whatever we met.
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    Domain UniquenessWe could not find a domain registered to your business, which means there is no address of your own for a customer to go to and nothing for your Google listing to link to.
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    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
3 checks on your website. You're seeing all of them.
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Your websiteNo website of your own1
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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

HOMX Collective's current hours show strong alignment during several weekday mid-day peaks but miss key weekend and mid-week lunchtime demand. Open hours capture high-demand Wednesdays and Fridays around late morning and early afternoon, while Saturday midday and Tuesday lunch slots are closed despite clear local demand. No open hours fall in low-demand windows, so expanding into missed lunchtime slots could increase bookings without cutting existing coverage.

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.
2.2Room to grow
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HOMX Collective
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday11am-7:30pm
Thursday11am-8pm
Friday11am-7:30pm
Saturday11am-7:30am
Sunday11am-4pm
Popular times Tuesday · Woolston
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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#457of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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