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New U Hair Design

Hair salon · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

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New U Hair Design

Hair salon · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#215of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health5.7/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social9.208Opening hours6.907Google search and traffic6.6

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.401Google listing1.902Reviews1.903Map positions0.506Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

New U Hair Design is a hair salon based in Christchurch Public Hospital, Christchurch Central City. It offers a full range of hair services and some beauty treatments, staffed by senior stylists experienced in cutting, colouring and working with hospital patients, and is available to patients, staff, visitors and the public.

New U Hair Design is a hair salon located in the main foyer of Christchurch Public Hospital in Christchurch Central City. It serves patients, hospital staff, visitors and members of the public from its hospital-site premises.

The salon provides a full range of hair services and a selection of beauty treatments including eyebrow and eyelash tinting and brow, chin and lip waxing. Senior stylists are fully qualified in cutting and colours and offer advice on styling, maintenance and suitable hair products.

Reviews indicate customers commonly experience friendly staff and attentive service, contributing to a high average rating. Feedback also notes the team's comfort working around medical settings and occasional mixed views on conversation and individual cut outcomes.

What distinguishes New U Hair Design locally is its hospital-based setting and the staff's experience with patients in medical environments, including the ability to arrange ward visits when required. It combines general salon services with practical accessibility for the hospital community.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

New U Hair Design shows a generally low overall health on its Google Business Listing, with clear room for improvement. The strengths include having a listed phone number, full address, a live open-for-business status, and a website link. The most important opportunities are claiming the listing, adding a meaningful description, and increasing photos and a logo to boost credibility and visibility.

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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    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

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
    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
    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.8 ★★★★★ (5)
Hair salon · Christchurch Centre
Open 6 days ✓
DirectionsCall Website ✓
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

New U Hair Design shows a low overall health score for Google reviews (2.0/10) but some positive momentum in rating level and early review collection. Key findings: the business has begun collecting reviews and has a mid-point star rating; however, it has not yet engaged with any reviews and has room to improve response rate. Continued focus on guest experience could raise trust and ratings over time.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
1.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

New U Hair Design shows a very low overall health in Google Maps search performance, with a 0.5 out of 10. This suggests limited visibility across city-wide maps queries and in the local suburb. The top opportunity is to improve aggregate search presence while also strengthening borough-level results, as the borough address is recognised but local results remain weak.

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.
0.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Seen in 1 search across Christchurch, top three in none
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GM Hair Design4.5 ★ (75) · Hair salon
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True Grit Hair4.7 ★ (215) · Hair salon
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Vivo Hair Salon Cashel Square4.3 ★ (50) · Hair salon
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GOOD Hair & Co4.8 ★ (117) · Hair salon
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Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Where customers find you

New U Hair Design shows moderate overall health in its citations and social presence. The strongest current asset is a highly active Facebook profile with a very high trust score, while Neighbourly and Fresha listings support local credibility. Primary opportunities focus on expanding reach across Instagram, TikTok, NoSecretSalon, LinkedIn personal and company profiles to balance online visibility.

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.
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    Neighbourly ProfileWe can see your Neighbourly Profile listing (https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/business/new-u-hair-design) found via: Google search results.

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
    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 6 of them.
9.2Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNewUHairNZNew U Hair Design | Facebook✓
Neighbourlynew-u-hair-designNew U Hair Design | Neighbourly✓
InstagramnewuhairdesignNew U Hair Design | Instagram✓
Infobelnew_u_hair_designNew U Hair Design | Infobel
White Pagesnew-u-christchurch-central-2New U Hair Design | White Pages
Freshalp/en/tt/blow-dries-and-blowouts/in/nz-christchurchNew U Hair Design | Fresha3
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #43 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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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.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    Recommendations on your pageNo recommendations sit on your page, so a stranger who came to see whether anyone else has used you leaves with only your own posts to go on.
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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.
  • 3
    A street addressYour page publishes no street address, so someone deciding whether you are near enough to bother with has nothing to check and moves on to a page that tells them.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Hair Salons based in two Christchurch hospitals. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/newuhairdesign/?hl=en CHCH Public Hospital Salon 2 Riccarton Ave, Christchurch Ph: 03 365 0548
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #228 for your Facebook page
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06Your websiteMarketbase business report

Your website

New U Hair Design shows an overall on-page health score of 5.9 out of 10, which is above average but leaves room for improvement. The most important findings are: the homepage lacks a meta description, and the page load time exceeds 3 seconds. Strengths include a very compact page size, HTTPS only, no render-blocking resources, and accurately matched meta and title information.

Strengths

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    Domain Age ScoreYour domain has been registered longer than almost any business in this market.
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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.
  • 2
    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
    Separate sites linking to youFewer separate websites link to you than half the businesses here, which means when someone searches for what you do, the businesses with a longer list of vouchers are the ones on the page they actually read.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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1Meta description
2On-page score
3Separate sites linking to you
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How people find you on Google

New U Hair Design shows a mid-range website traffic health with room for improvement in paid activity and consistent gains in organic metrics. The business should start a small paid campaign with clear landing pages and monitor conversions, while continuing to refine organic SEO and maintain momentum in traffic growth.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
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    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.
  • 3
    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
6.6Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2No ads from you on any search
New U Hair DesignNot in these results
31About 115 visits a month from search, across 29 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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Your hours against demand

New U Hair Design's opening hours generally follow local demand but leave specific gaps. Open hours cover several strong mid-day peaks-notably Tuesday 11am-1pm and Saturday 11am-12pm-while remaining closed during other busy periods such as Saturday 1-2pm and Sunday midday to mid-afternoon. There are no low-demand open hours, suggesting current hours are concentrated around demand but could be tweaked to capture missed weekend traffic.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
6.9Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
New U Hair Design
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5:30pm
Tuesday9am-5:30pm
Wednesday9am-5:30pm
Thursday9am-5:30pm
Friday9am-5:30pm
Saturday9am-1pm
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#215of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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