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The Cutting Company

Hair salon · Mairehau, 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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The Cutting Company

Hair salon · Mairehau, Christchurch

Where you stand#331of 498 hair salons & barbers
Overall health3.4/10across the eight areas

Going well

04Listings and social6.803Map positions6.7

Where we can help

02Reviews4.008Opening hours3.401Google listing2.505Facebook page2.507Google search and traffic0.006Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

The Cutting Company is a hair salon in the Mairehau suburb of Christchurch offering haircuts, trims and styling. The salon describes itself as providing professional, friendly service and is noted in reviews for consistent results, quick fixes for DIY cuts and the ability to handle more dramatic changes such as short styles and pixie cuts.

The Cutting Company is a hair salon located in Mairehau, Christchurch. It offers haircuts, trims and styling to local customers and describes its team as professional and friendly.

The salon's services include routine trims and more substantial haircuts. Review details indicate staff regularly fix DIY cuts, handle requests for specific short styles and undertake noticeable transformations such as pixie cuts, based on customer photos and preferences.

Customers describe the experience as welcoming and friendly, with staff who are professional and consistent. Reviews mention that clients often leave feeling satisfied with the cut and that the team maintains a helpful, upbeat atmosphere during appointments.

As a Mairehau salon, The Cutting Company is distinguished locally by its consistent service and ability to correct or transform hair as needed. Customers seeking reliable trims, fixes after home haircuts or a confident change to shorter styles are the commonly noted reasons people choose this salon.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The Cutting Company's Google Business Listing shows a low overall health score of 2.4 out of 10, indicating significant gaps that limit visibility and customer engagement. Key strengths include claimed status, accurate open/closed status, a listed phone number and a full street address. The most important opportunities are adding a website link, a meaningful description, a logo, and continuing to upload fresh photos to improve standing.

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

  • 1
    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.
  • 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
    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.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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4.5 ★★★★★ (70)
Hair salon · Mairehau
Open 5 days ✓
DirectionsCall No website 1
OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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No description yet2
Google listingChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Cutting Company shows a low overall health score of 2.8 out of 10 on Google reviews, indicating significant room for improvement in engagement and review volume. The strongest signal is a solid base of reviews and a decent listing presence, but the business has not yet responded to any reviews, which undermines trust. The key opportunity is to start replying to reviews to lift customer confidence.

Strengths

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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
    Star ratingYour rating sits well below what customers here are used to seeing, and it is the first number they compare when two businesses look otherwise equal.
  • 3
    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 3 of them.
4.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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The Cutting Company
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4.5★★★★★70 reviews
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Google reviewsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #297 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

The Cutting Company shows an above-average health score of 6.8 out of 10 for Google Maps visibility. The business is clearly visible in its suburb, Mairehau, and performs well on several top keywords such as hair salon in Mairehau and unisex hairdresser in Mairehau, indicating solid local appeal. Opportunities lie in improving overall aggregate maps visibility and pushing the suburb score toward the top 10%.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than nearly every business in your suburb, so a customer searching nearby sees you before most of your competition.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
6.7Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Top three for "hair salon" in 1 suburb, seen in 3
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Hair Now4.8 ★ (23) · Hair salon
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Transform Me4.9 ★ (32) · Hair salon
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The Cutting Company24.5 ★ (70) · Hair salon
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April and Aster Hair Studio5.0 ★ (17) · Hair salon
Map positionsChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #164 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The Cutting Company shows an above-average health score of 6.5 out of 10, indicating solid overall presence with room for refinement. The strongest asset is an active Facebook profile with very high trust, complemented by solid Neighbourly and Fresha listings. Key opportunities include adding a TikTok and Yellow listing, plus a LinkedIn presence to humanise the brand.

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 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 can see the Fresha Profile listing (https://fresha.com/the-cutting-company-hills-road-christchurch-2GZq0J) found via: Google search results, but nothing on it tells us it is yours - no matching phone number, no matching address, and the name does not line up.
14 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 5 of them.
6.8Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Freshalp/en/bt/barbershops/in/nz-christchurch/mairehauThe Cutting Company | Fresha3
Instagramthecutting_companyThe Cutting Company | Instagram✓
Family Company Studiothe-cutting-companyThe Cutting Company | Family Company Studio
FacebookThe-Cutting-Company-100063462312085The Cutting Company | Facebook✓
Neighbourlyhairdressers/canterbury-region/christchurch/mairehauThe Cutting Company | Neighbourly
Yellow/christchurch/the-cutting-roomFound through search, not linked from anything you own2
TiktokNo account found1
YellowNo listing found2
Listings and socialChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #159 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

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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    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.
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    A cover photoYour page opens with a cover photo rather than a blank banner, so the first impression a visitor gets is your own work.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    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.
  • 2
    People following your pageFewer people follow your page than follow half the pages here.
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    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.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
2.5Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Ladies and Gents salon. CUTTING, COLOURING , FOILING, PERMING3
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★ 10 reviews · recommended
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☎ +64 21 285 2247✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch hair salons & barbers · 498 businesses
You are #375 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Strengths

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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
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How people find you on Google

Strengths

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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
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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 Cutting Company's opening hours show partial alignment with local demand: 36 weekly hours match peak search times but 35 high-demand hours are missed. Strong alignment occurs mid-morning to early afternoon on Tuesday and late morning Saturday. Missed opportunities are concentrated around weekday lunchtimes and early Saturday afternoon. No low-demand open hours were flagged, suggesting hours are generally focused on busier periods.

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.
3.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
The Cutting Company
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Hours 1
MondayClosed
Tuesday9am-4pm
Wednesday9am-6pm
Thursday9am-6pm
Friday9am-4pm
Saturday9am-1pm
SundayClosed
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#331of 498 Christchurch hair salons & barbers
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