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The Blind Barber

Barber shop · Northcote-Papanui, 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
Your marketChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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The Blind Barber

Barber shop · Northcote-Papanui, Christchurch

Where you stand#319of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health3.6/10across the eight areas
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What AI tells people about you

The Blind Barber is a small, independent barbershop in Papanui, Christchurch. They offer traditional barbering and contemporary cuts, including fades and crisp edge work. Reviews note a welcoming, personable atmosphere and attentive service, with customers often highlighting friendly conversation and professional, clean results in a compact, local setting.

The Blind Barber is a small, independent barbershop located in Papanui, Christchurch. It presents as a local neighbourhood shop that focuses on men's haircuts and traditional barbering services in a compact, approachable setting.

Services at The Blind Barber centre on classic barber skills and contemporary styles. Mentioned offerings include haircuts with clean lines, sharp edges and smooth fades. The business describes itself as a cosy barbershop environment and reviews reference a skilled approach to fades and crisp finishing.

Customers tend to report a warm, welcoming experience and attentive service. Review themes note friendly, conversational barbership that makes clients feel at ease, along with consistent, professional results described as clean and precise. Several reviewers recommend the shop and single out the personable atmosphere alongside the quality of the cut.

Locally, The Blind Barber is distinguished by its small, tidy presence in Papanui and a reputation for personable service combined with reliable barbering technique. The shop's high average rating and repeated comments about welcoming staff and precise cuts are recurring local themes that customers can expect when visiting.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Blind Barber's Google Business Listing shows an average health score and solid foundations, with room to improve. Current strengths include a verified claimed listing, a listed phone number, an active open-for-business indicator, and a website link for easy customer access. The main opportunity is to add a logo and continue growing photos and a clearer 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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    Description lengthYour description is far shorter than what most businesses here have written, which means a customer comparing listings gets a line from you and three paragraphs from the business beside you.
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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
    Category fitYour categories cover less of this market than nearly every competitor, so someone searching for a job you actually do is shown a list your listing was never entered into.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.9Room to grow
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5.0 ★★★★★ (13)
Barber shop · Northcote-Papanui3
Open 3 days · late Wed ✓
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From the business

That cute little Barbershop you wish your friends told you about.

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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Blind Barber's Google Business health sits at 3.7 out of 10, indicating below-average performance. The strongest finding is a top-10% star rating, reflecting high customer satisfaction. A key opportunity is lack of client review responses, which can erode trust. Encouraging more reviews and starting public replies could help balance weaker engagement with solid rating quality.

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

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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.
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    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.
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    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
3.1Room to grow
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #342 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Blind Barber shows overall health of 2.8 out of 10, indicating low visibility in Google Maps. Top findings include being ranked in several relevant local areas and strong performance for the keyword barber shop in harewood-christchurch airport and other nearby suburbs. There is room to improve both aggregate and borough level maps visibility to attract more local customers.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    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.
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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.
3.3Room to grow
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1Top three for "barber shop" in 1 suburb, seen in 8
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Hairway Barbers @Savanna Hair Solutions5.0 ★ (5) · Barber shop
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VIP Cuts 2 Barbershop4.8 ★ (149) · Barber shop
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AFG Barbers Studio4.8 ★ (127) · Barber shop
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Fedration Barbers4.8 ★ (9) · Barber shop
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The Blind Barber2Further down, below the first results
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #335 for map positions
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04Listings and socialMarketbase business report

Where customers find you

The Blind Barber shows an above-average health score of 6.1 out of 10, with strong social proof on Facebook and a solid Fresha presence. The most important findings are the very high trust on Facebook and the solid Fresha listings, which support local discovery and ongoing client bookings.

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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    Fresha ProfileWe can see your Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/the-blind-barber-harewood-road-christchurch-8JgMkM) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

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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.
  • 3
    Neighbourly ProfileWe could not find an active Neighbourly 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.
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Freshalp/en/bt/barbershops/in/nz-christchurch/papanuiThe Blind Barber | Fresha✓
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InstagramtheblindbarbernzThe Blind Barber | Instagram✓
Yellow/northcote/the-local-barberFound through search, not linked from anything you own2
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
NeighbourlyNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #96 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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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.
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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.

Top three opportunities

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    Recommendations on your pageYou hold fewer recommendations than the middle of this market.
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    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.
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    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.
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Small Intimate Barbershop - focused on the perfection of the cut and the quality of relationships.
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★ 6 reviews · recommended 1
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☎ +64 22 176 2264✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #247 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Domain Age ScoreWe could not read how long your domain has been registered, or it is only weeks old.
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    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.
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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

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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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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

The Blind Barber's opening hours partially match local demand: 20 peak hours are covered but many busy windows remain closed. Strong matches include mid-morning and mid-afternoon weekday peaks on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Notable missed opportunities occur at late-morning and early-afternoon on Tuesdays and Saturdays when demand is high but the shop is closed. No open hours fall in low-demand periods.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

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    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.
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The Blind Barber
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday4pm-8pm
Thursday10am-6pm
Friday10am-6pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Saturday · Northcote-Papanui
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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#319of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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Christchurch hair salons & barbersOverall · 498 businesses
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