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Nails by Loren

Nail salon · 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
Your marketChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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Nails by Loren

Nail salon · Sydenham, Christchurch

Where you stand#457of 570 beauty businesses
Overall health2.0/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social9.0

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.908Opening hours4.102Reviews3.303Map positions1.301Google listing0.707Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Nails by Loren is a nail salon in Sydenham, Christchurch offering nail services with a focus on quality finishes and creative nail art. Clients note friendly, welcoming service and consistent appointments. The salon emphasises durability and polished results, with a local reputation for skilled nail artistry and reliable care.

Nails by Loren is a nail salon based in Sydenham, Christchurch. It provides nail services to local clients, combining standard nail care with artistic nail designs. The location serves neighbourhood customers seeking routine nail maintenance and special-look manicures.

Services centre on nail artistry and care, using quality products aimed at long-lasting finishes. The business highlights creative designs alongside regular manicure and maintenance appointments. Customers book recurring visits, often on a three-week cycle, indicating a focus on upkeep as well as one-off looks.

Clients commonly report friendly, welcoming service and praise the technical skill of the nail artist. Reviews emphasise consistent results, durability of the nails and attention to detail. Many customers return regularly and describe the salon as professional, comfortable and attentive to their preferences.

Locally, Nails by Loren is characterised by its combination of creative nail art and dependable routine care. The salon's steady appointment pattern and positive client comments point to a dependable neighbourhood nail service in Sydenham, appealing to those who want both artistic looks and maintenance-focused care.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

Nails by Loren shows a very low overall health on the Google Business Listing, with limited completeness and missing key elements that affect visibility. The most important findings are that the listing is not yet claimed and lacks a website link, description, logo, and more photos, while existing items such as the listing title, phone number, full address and a main image are present.

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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    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.
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    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.
0.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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5.0 ★★★★★ (9)
Nail salon · Sydenham
Open 5 days · late Tue and Thu ✓
DirectionsCall No website ✓2
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet3
Google listingChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Nails by Loren shows an overall below-average health score on Google reviews, indicating room for improvement in customer engagement and sentiment consistency. The top finding is a stellar star rating in the top 10%, reflecting high client satisfaction, while the business has not yet engaged with any reviews, which weakens perceived responsiveness.

Strengths

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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 three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 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 all of them.
3.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Nails by Loren
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5.0★★★★★9 reviews 3
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2How far your rating and your review count together can be trusted
Google reviewsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #383 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Nails by Loren shows very low overall Maps health (1.3/10). The business ranks for several strong local terms, including nail salon in sydenham, which sits at position 8, indicating some baseline visibility. However, borough-level presence is minimal with work needed to raise local results in Sydenham and surrounding suburbs.

Strengths

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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.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Seen in 2 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Colombo Nails & Beauty5.0 ★ (335) · Nail salon
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House of Nails Manchester Street5.0 ★ (488) · Nail salon
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Beckenham Nails & Beauty4.5 ★ (19) · Nail salon
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City Nails & Beauty4.8 ★ (57) · Nail salon
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Nails by Loren2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #497 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Nails by Loren shows overall health with a 5.4/10, indicating average visibility across social platforms and directories. The strongest current asset is a very high trust Facebook presence and a Fresha directory listing, which supports ongoing customer reach. Key opportunities include strengthening the TikTok link to business details, expanding presence on Neighbourly and LinkedIn, and claiming a NoSecretSalon listing.

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.
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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

  • 1
    Tiktok ProfileWe turned up your Tiktok Profile page, but only barely, and nothing you own points at it - your website does not link to it and it is not on your Google listing.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Fresha ProfileWe could not find an active Fresha 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.
9.0Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Family Company Studionails-by-lorenNails by Loren | Family Company Studio
InstagramnailsbylorenchchNails by Loren | Instagram✓
FacebooknailsandlasheschchNails by Loren | Facebook✓
Tiktok@dippy.donutNails by Loren | Tiktok1
Freshalp/en/bt/nail-salons/in/nz-christchurch/sydenhamFound through search, not linked from anything you own3
YellowNo listing found2
FreshaNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #57 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    People following your pageYours is one of the largest local followings in this market.
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    Recommendations on your pageYour recommendation count is one of the deeper collections in this market, and enough of it is written by other people that the page does some of the arguing for you.
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    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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Where your page link pointsNothing in your page details points at a website, so a visitor who has read your posts and wants prices, hours or a booking form has nowhere to go next but back to search - where your competitors are waiting.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    An email addressA customer who would rather put a request in writing at ten at night has only Messenger to work with, because the page carries no email address.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
facebook
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6.8K followers ✓
Only offering nail services 855 Jones rd Rolleston Inside Copperhead rd2
FollowMessage
★ 336 reviews · recommended ✓
☎ +64 27 870 1746
PostsAboutPhotosReviews
Facebook pageChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #237 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    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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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google Mapsgoogle.com › mapsNails by Loren - Sydenham, Christchurch
Your websiteNo website of your own1
Your websiteChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
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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
Nails by LorenNot in these results
Google search and trafficChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #266 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Nails by Loren's opening hours partly match local demand but miss a clear midweek opportunity. The salon is open during several high-demand windows - Tuesday 11am, Thursday 4-5pm and Saturday 1-2pm - which align with strong customer interest. However, it is closed through a busy Wednesday block (11am-4pm), representing a material missed opportunity to capture midweek bookings.

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.
4.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Nails by Loren
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
Hours 1
Monday9:45am-2pm
Tuesday9:45am-8pm
WednesdayClosed
Thursday9:45am-8pm
Friday9:45am-2pm
Saturday9am-4pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Wednesday · Sydenham
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Opening hoursChristchurch beauty · 570 businesses
You are #338 for opening hours
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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 570 Christchurch beauty businesses
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Christchurch beautyOverall · 570 businesses
You are #457 overall
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