marketbaseExclusive Marketbase Report
Prepared for

Karen Graham Photography

Wedding photographer · Wainoni, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 194 Christchurch photography businesses.

ReportLocal marketing report
Checked13 October 2026
Your marketChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
Open your report ↓
Executive summaryExclusive Marketbase business report

Karen Graham Photography

Wedding photographer · Wainoni, Christchurch

Where you stand#166of 194 photography businesses
Overall health1.5/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01NameYour 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.01PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.904Listings and social4.303Map positions4.102Reviews3.608Opening hours3.001Google listing0.807Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
How AI describes youMarketbase business report

What AI tells people about you

Karen Graham Photography is a photography business based in Wainoni, Christchurch, offering commissioned photographic services to local clients. Operating from the eastern suburbs, the studio produces images and finished files or prints for personal and community use. The practice focuses on delivering photographic work for customers in and around Wainoni and nearby Christchurch neighbourhoods.

Karen Graham Photography is a photographic practice located in Wainoni, Christchurch. The studio provides photography services from the eastern suburbs of Christchurch and works with local clients to produce photographic images.

The business offers commissioned photography work and supplies finished image files or prints to clients. Services are presented simply as photographic assignments carried out by the photographer, with work completed to meet the requirements set by each client.

Clients engage Karen Graham Photography for a range of photographic needs within the local area. People who commission work receive final images or prints from the photographer; projects are arranged and delivered from the Wainoni base to customers in nearby neighbourhoods.

Karen Graham Photography is distinguished locally by its presence in Wainoni and its focus on providing photography services to Christchurch residents. As a local photographer, the practice centres on producing photographic work and delivering images to clients across the eastern suburbs and surrounding areas.

ChatGPTGeminiGooglePerplexityClaude
Not quite right? Let's sort it
01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The overall health of Karen Graham Photography's Google Business Listing is very low, with a health score of 1.0 out of 10. This indicates limited completeness and visibility. The strongest completed items are a listing title, a phone number, a full address, and a main image, which provide a basic presence but do not yet inform customers about services or reasons to engage.

Strengths

  • ✓
    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    PhoneYour listing carries a phone number, so the call button is live for anyone who finds you on a phone.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
0.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Tiles © Esri
Karen Graham Photography
Karen Graham Photography1✓
Own this business?
0.0 ★★★★★ (0)
Wedding photographer · Wainoni
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
From the business
No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #178 for your Google listing
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google SearchGoogle MapsBusiness Profile
marketbase
02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Karen Graham Photography has a 3.2 out of 10 health score, indicating below-average performance on Google reviews. The top findings show very few reviews and no response to any feedback, which can undermine trust. Encouraging happy customers to leave reviews and starting consistent responses will help improve both perceived rating and engagement.

Strengths

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

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    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.
3.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Karen Graham Photography
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
–★★★★★0 reviews
5
4
3
2
12
No reviews yetBe the first to review1
Google reviewsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #125 for your Google reviews
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google reviewsBusiness Profile
marketbase
03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Karen Graham Photography shows a below-average health score of 4.1 out of 10 for Google Maps. The business ranks well for several local wedding and portrait keywords, including wedding photographer in Avondale and Wainoni, which indicates strong relevance in these areas. Opportunities lie in boosting aggregate and borough visibility to move toward the local midpoint.

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 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 less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
4.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
1234Tiles © Esri
wedding photographer
1Top three for "wedding photographer" in 2 suburbs, seen in 2
1
Etta Images5.0 ★ (85) · Wedding photographer
2
Karen Graham Photography20.0 ★ (0) · Wedding photographer
3
Agnes Grace Photo & Film5.0 ★ (22) · Wedding photographer
4
Mandy Caldwell Photography5.0 ★ (39) · Wedding photographer
Map positionsChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #115 for map positions
See how to fix both →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google Maps
marketbase
04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

Citations and social presence health for Karen Graham Photography shows a moderate overall health score, reflecting decent platform presence with key assets on Facebook and LinkedIn. The most notable strengths are a very high trust Facebook profile and a credible LinkedIn profile, which support professional credibility. Opportunities lie mainly in improving TikTok and Yellow directory visibility.

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram Profileyour Instagram Profile page surfaces strongly in search, which is how we found it, though nothing you control points at it.
  • 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.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
4.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Gkaren graham photography wainoni
AllImagesMapsNews
InstagramcaragrahamphotographyKaren Graham Photography | Instagram2
FacebookcaragrahamphotographyKaren Graham Photography | Facebook✓
LinkedInkaren-graham-7aab5a110Karen Graham Photography | LinkedIn
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #111 for listings and social
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
GoogleFacebookInstagramTikTokLinkedInYellowYour website
marketbase
05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    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.
  • ✓
    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

  • 1
    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
  • 2
    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
  • 3
    Recommendations on your pageYour count sits above the middle of this market, so a visitor reading the page finds enough written by other people to stop needing anything written by you.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
caragrahamphotography✓
792 followers 2
I Love photography! Capturing life's beauty in all its expressions.1
FollowMessage
★ 5 reviews · recommended 3
🌐 maps.google.com
☎ +64 21 170 3383✓
PostsAboutPhotosReviews
Facebook pageChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #81 for your Facebook page
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Facebook
marketbase
06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

Strengths

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

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
🔒google.com132
Your websiteChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
See how to fix all 3 →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Your websiteGoogle Search
marketbase
07Google search and trafficMarketbase business report

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
G
AllMapsImagesShopping
No ads from you on any search
Karen Graham PhotographyNot in these results
Google search and trafficChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #87 for Google search and traffic
See how to keep it that way →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Google SearchGoogle Maps
marketbase
08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Karen Graham Photography has no published opening hours, so temporal alignment with Christchurch demand cannot be measured. No strong alignment hours can be identified, and missed opportunities where the business is closed during popular search times are unknown. To improve the health score, publish accurate hours and consider using appointment slots or temporary extended hours while tracking customer enquiries to find peak-demand windows.

Strengths

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

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.
3.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Karen Graham Photography
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours
No opening hours listed1
Opening hoursChristchurch photography · 194 businesses
You are #137 for opening hours
See how to fix it →
Free for 7 days. Rather we did it? Do it for me
Checked on
Your listed hoursWhen people search
marketbase
The next step

Your top opportunities, in one place.

These are your top 18 opportunities, from the 46 checks we run on every business. Tick any of them to see where it takes you.

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#166of 194 Christchurch photography businesses
9:41
Christchurch photographyOverall · 194 businesses
You are #166 overall
Open my free 7 days →
The how for every one of these, and everything else we found, in the order that moves you fastest.
Just your name and email. No card. Or have us do it for you

Sounds like another marketing outfit?

We're not. Here's how we're different →

  • You see everything first. Free.Your position, your competitors, your fixes - before you spend a cent.
  • We don't need anything from you.No logins, no card, no setup. Built from what your customers can already see.
  • You watch it work.Your position in the market, every month. If it's not moving, you'll know.
  • Real New Zealand data.Every one of the 194 photography businesses in Christchurch, checked - not a guess from overseas.
  • Built and run in Christchurch.A Kiwi business, not an offshore call centre.
  • A real person on the phone.Call us on 0800 747 901.
Jeremy GrayFounder, Marketbase

"I spent 20 years growing some of the biggest online marketplaces in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Marketbase gives local businesses the same edge."

Jeremy has grown marketing for